Which statement is TRUE regarding dopamine?
a. ?High levels of dopamine are related with symptoms of autism.
b. ?Low levels of dopamine are related with symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
c. ?Dopamine makes activities like sex and eating less pleasurable.
d. ?Dopamine was the first neurotransmitter to be discovered.
ANSWER:
b
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a. Takahiko: "A rape is never a woman's fault—whether she tried to prevent the rape or whether she decided that she would be safer if she didn't struggle.". b. Sophia: "If a woman has had training in self-defense, she can almost always prevent rape.". c. Judy: "There is a brief list of rape-prevention strategies; if a woman has studied this list, she can almost always prevent rape.". d. Stephen: "Unfortunately, none of the rape-prevention strategies can significantly reduce the probability that a woman will be raped.".
A split-brain patient is shown the word lockbox, with lock in the left visual field and box in the right visual field. The patient is then asked to name the word she saw. She will respond that she saw:
A) lockbox. B) boxlock. C) lock. D) box.
"Associativity" in the Hebbian synapse refers to the
A. use of the same type of neurotransmitter in both the pre- and postsynaptic neurons. B. simultaneous activity of several synapses on the same postsynaptic neuron. C. nearly simultaneous activity of the pre- and postsynaptic neurons. D. ability of the postsynaptic cell to use retrograde messengers such as nitric oxide (NO) to communicate with the presynaptic cell.
According to the ____, energy is never created or lost in a system, but is only transformed from one form to another
a. ?Bell-Magendie law b. ?vitalist's position c. ?antivitalist's position d. ?principle of conservation of energy