Which of the following statements regarding the synthesis of neurotransmitters is true?
a. Both small-molecule neurotransmitters and neuropeptides may be synthesized anywhere in the neuron
b. Small-molecule neurotransmitters are typically synthesized in the axon terminal, but neuropeptides must be synthesized in the cell body.
c. Neuropeptides may be synthesized anywhere in the neuron, but small-molecule neurotransmitters must be synthesized in the cell body.
d. Both small-molecule neurotransmitters and neuropeptides must be synthesized in the cell body.
b
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A. 75 percent B. 50 percent C. 35 percent D. 20 percent
Kunti, a Black slave who works on a Southern plantation in the eighteenth century, tries to escape to freedom. A psychological diagnosis at that time would likely be that Kunti ____
a. has a normal desire to be free b. suffers from drapetomania c. suffers from an anxiety disorder d. is expressing a statistical anomaly
Rotter's ideas about the person's locus of control:
a. have not received much research attention b. have generated hypotheses that have received strong empirical verification c. have generated hypotheses that have received little empirical verification d. have had little heuristic value
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a. under water. b. on the beach. c. under water, when the words had been learned under water. d. under water, even when the words had been learned on the beach.