The fact that muscles that are frequently taxed and exercised get stronger is similar to the concept of long-term __________,
which shows that pre- and post-synaptic neurons that are activated at the same time will cause that neuronal system to become responsive to weaker stimuli.
a. strengthening
b. assemblage
c. potentiation
d. patrolling
Answer: C
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Suppose a certain student, Jake, falls asleep during every chemistry class. Further suppose that Jake is the only one who falls asleep in this class and he falls asleep in all of his other classes. According to Kelley's covariation theory of attribution,
how will people explain his behavior? a. It is due to something unusual about this particular class because his behavior is low in consensus, high in distinctiveness, and high in consistency. b. Chemistry is really a boring class because Jake's behavior is high in consensus, high in distinctiveness, and high in consistency. c. It is due to something unusual about Jake because his behavior is low in consensus, low in distinctiveness, and high in consistency. d. It is due to something peculiar about the circumstances on a particular day because his behavior is high in consensus.
Converting important features of the world into neural messages understood by the brain is called
a. sensory coding. b. sensory accommodation. c. sensory adaptation. d. sensory gating.
IQ scores for a population-based sample usually fall into a __________ or __________ curve, in which most people fall near the middle and the proportions decrease at the low and high extremes.
A. normal distribution; bell B. camelback; double hill C. inverted-U; inverted-V D. variance from the mean; absolute value