Compare the on-off flip-flop sleep-wake system to the idea that, as you have seen with other neuroscience topics, an event either happens or it does not.
What will be an ideal response?
The flip-flop sleep-wake system means that individuals are either awake or they are asleep, there is no in-between phase in which people are wakefully asleep. This concept is similar to the idea that some neural actions either occur or they do not. Action potentials either happen or they do not, there is no "weak" version of an action potential that would be the equivalent of being wakefully asleep.
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A) anatomy. B) logic. C) dualism. D) philosophy.
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A. heart attack. B. stroke. C. aneurysm. D. hemorrhage.
In ____________________, children reason by going from one specific isolated event to another
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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a. Neonatal stage b. 1 week c. 2 weeks d. 4 weeks