As part of your psychology course, you need to pair off with another student and conduct a simple research study. Your assignment is to monitor the other student's blood levels of the hormone ghrelin. Your partner is of normal weight and eats at normal times. Throughout the day, you take blood samplese very 30 minutes. As compared with the blood sample you took at 10 AM, the blood sample you took at noon just before your partner ate lunch contained ____ blood level of ghrelin.

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Ghrelin is known as the "hunger hormone" and its levels increase before meals, stimulating appetite. Therefore, just before lunch, the ghrelin levels would be much higher compared to earlier in the morning.

As Part of Your Psychology Course, You Need to Pair