What Is a Normative Statement? Give an Example

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Essay

What is a normative statement? Give an example.

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Definitions:

Summation

The process of adding multiple quantities together to achieve a total sum, often used in mathematics and physics.

IPSPs

Inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are synaptic potentials that make a neuron less likely to generate an action potential, often associated with the flow of negative ions into a cell or positive ions out of a cell.

EPSPs

Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials are electrical charges that increase the likelihood of a neuron firing an action potential.

Temporal Summation

The summing of several postsynaptic potentials produced when a single presynaptic neuron fires multiple times