Adenosine produces sleepiness by
A. interacting with the SCN.
B. promoting the release of melatonin.
C. inhibiting the activity of neurons releasing ACh, serotonin, and norepinephrine.
D. stimulating the activity of neurons releasing ACh, serotonin, and norepinephrine.
Answer: C
You might also like to view...
In order to create graphs from raw data in Excel, the data must first be transformed into ______.
A. descriptive statistics B. inferential statistics C. categorical statistics D. ordinal statistics
According to your text, we know that fMRI technology ____.?
a. ?directly measures brain activity b. ?can reveal the brain areas that are active when a person experiences an emotion c. ?can detect any neuronal activity, even if changes of activity in the same region cancel each other out. d. ?is not very susceptible to experimenter bias because the images are difficult to misinterpret.
Which of the following research findings best supports the hypothesis that the higher
incidence of eating disorders in European American than in African American adolescent females reflects the fact that European American teenagers are more likely than their African American peers to identify with the overly thin cultural ideals of beauty conveyed in the majority American culture? a. The average African American female body type is closer to the mainstream cultural ideal than the average European American body type. b. African American girls typically go through puberty later than their European American counterparts. c. African American teenagers who identify with mainstream ideals of beauty face as great a risk of having eating disorders as their European American counterparts. d. Children of mixed African American and European descent have a lower incidence of eating disorders than their European American peers. e. On average, African American families communicate more openly than their European American counterparts and, consequently, African American teenagers are more willing to express negative feelings to their parents than their European American peers.
A long-term memory system that is specialized to contain "rule-based memories" for performing skills such as driving a car, playing a flute, or throwing a ball, and which can be retrieved and used without a specific conscious awareness of those rules, is called the ____________ memory system
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word