During lecture, Dr Gewirtz described long-term potentiation, the neural basis of learning, in which
a. the likelihood of an action potential decreases.
b. high frequency stimulation increases the ability of cell A to activate cell B.
c. the absolute refractory period of neural transmission is increased.
d. behavior leads to consequences that make it more or less likely that the behavior will be repeated.
Answer: b. high frequency stimulation increases the ability of cell A to activate cell B.
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a. having adequate financial resources to survive as they approach retirement b. a feeling that they have done a good job of parenting their children c. being in good physical health and being active on a regular basis d. knowing that they are going to care for their grandchildren on a weekly basis
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a. it discards too much of the data. b. it removes outliers only extremely high in value. c. the positive and negative deviations balance out. d. it is disproportionately influenced by outliers.
Presenting an EO for the outcome of the behavior will make the behavior ____________ likely to occur
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
The decrease in sensory response to an unchanging stimulus is known as
a. sensory conflict. b. sensory gating. c. sensory adaptation. d. selective attention.