The fact that antipsychotic medications block dopamine receptors immediately yet take weeks to work indicates that:
A) the dopamine hypothesis is inadequate.
B) dopamine is not involved in schizophrenia.
C) multiple genes interact to determine schizophrenia.
D) the effect of the medication is largely due to expectancy effects.
A) the dopamine hypothesis is inadequate.
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b. They prevent any changes in synaptic connections. c. They increase the brain's synthesis of serotonin. d. They increase dopamine release in one brain area.
Most medications for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder can be categorized as _____
a. Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors b. SSRIs c. NMDA Receptor Agonists d. Psychostimulants
Research on ____ is concerned with the causal explanations people give for their own and others' behaviors, and for events in general
a. heuristics b. schemas c. attribution d. self-regulation
Coarticulation is the tendency
a. for phoneme pronunciation to vary slightly, depending on the surrounding phonemes. b. to read more than one word at a time. c. to transmit meaning as well as phoneme information in any given English sentence. d. to use visual cues to help you interpret phonemes.