A young man reads in a letter that he has just won $1,000 in a state wide lottery and he literally jumps for joy. Which neurons are sending messages from his brain to the muscles in his legs causing him to jump?
a. afferent neurons
b. efferent neurons
c. interactive neurons
d. sensory neurons
b
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In the late 19th century the enactment of civil commitment laws resulted in a. only a few cases of involuntary commitment to mental hospitals
b. people being committed who were not mentally ill. c. wives committing their husbands to mental hospitals at a higher rate than the reverse. d. an increase in public knowledge of accurate diagnosis of mental illness
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Long-term potentiation occurs in the hippocampus 2. Drugs that block long-term potentiation produce effects similar to the symptoms of severe retrograde amnesia 3. The scent of a former partner's cologne may serve as a strong retrieval cue, bringing instant thoughts of him or her 4. Retrieval cues are always external stimuli in the environment 5. The encoding specificity principle states that retrieval cues which induce novel cognitive states are especially powerful at evoking memory retrieval
Research by Haubenstricker (1984) found that physical educators generally devote
A. adequate amounts of time to assessment but use poorly constructed tests B. adequate amounts of time to assessment and use well-devised assessment instruments C. very little time to assessment and use teacher-made tests D. too much time to testing, though they use well-constructed assessment instruments
An external event that causes internal stress responses is called a(n)
a. strain. b. stressor. c. moderator variable. d. inhibitor. e. immunosuppression.