Long-term potentiation enhances the release of which neurotransmitter into the synaptic cleft, resulting in enhanced learning?

a. glutamate
b. anadamide
c. aspartate
d. GABA


a. glutamate

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A. People with OCD are more perfectionistic than people with OCPD. B. People with OCPD are less conscientious about their rituals than people with OCD. C. People with OCPD do not have true obsessions or compulsions like people with OCD do. D. People with OCD can do a compulsion once and feel better, people with OCPD never feel better, no matter how many times they do it.

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Mitch recently graduated from law school and has been hired by a prestigious firm. In his first few days he is paired with Avery, a partner in the firm. Avery works with Mitch, gives him increasing amounts of responsibility, and makes sure that Mitch receives credit for his strong work. In this case, Avery is serving as a(n) ____

a. supervisor b. mentor c. vocational partner d. reality shock buffer

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Personality disorders involve stable, long-standing, and personality traits

a. comment b. flexible c. inflexible d. unique

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Which of the following questions would be most appropriately answered by the correlational method?

a. What is the most effective treatment for depression? b. Why do people tend to help in emergency situations if there are few eyewitnesses? c. What can be done to help learning disabled students learn? d. Does high school GPA predict college GPA?

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