Describe the role of dopamine in reinforcing brain stimulation

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: The ventral tegmental area (VTA) projects to the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) via the mesolimbic dopamine pathway. Increases of dopamine within the NAcc are reinforcing. Natural reinforcers (food for a hungry rat) will elicit this increase in DA, as will drugs of abuse such as amphetamine that are also reinforcing (i.e., rats will make a response that delivers the drug into their blood stream or directly into the NAcc).

Psychology

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a. only useful in analyzing experimental research in psychology. b. useful in teaching a logical approach to data (information). c. impossible to calculate without a background in calculus. d. all the data in a population.

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A) cells B) chromosomes C) genotype D) DNA

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Researchers have been able to induce memories of events that never happened

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

Psychology