What Did Political Scientist Larry Bartels Demonstrate in His Book

question 33

Multiple Choice

What did political scientist Larry Bartels demonstrate in his book Unequal Democracy?

• A)Elected officials are substantially more responsive to the concerns of their more affluent constituents than to those of their poorer constituents.
• B)Elected officials are substantially more responsive to the efforts of lobbyists than to the concerns of their constituents.
• C)Elected officials do not tend to respond to the efforts of social movements or protests when casting votes or forming policy.
• D)Elected officials tend to ignore the interests of their constituents when they make policy or cast votes,until just before they are up for reelection.
• E)Incumbents hold so much power in the United States and are so difficult to unseat that they have disenfranchised much of the voting population of the U.S.

Describe Freud's contributions to psychotherapy.

Understand the causes and characteristics of specific neurological and genetic disorders.

Identify the epidemiology of PTSD and schizophrenia, including prevalence rates.

Recognize diagnostic categories and symptoms of mental disorders as per the DSM-5.

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Definitions:

Neurons

Specialized cells of the nervous system that transmit information through electrical and chemical signals, forming the basis of neural communication.

Neuromuscular Junction

The site where a motor neuron communicates with a skeletal muscle cell to induce muscle contraction.

Synaptic Cleft

The small gap between neurons at a synapse, across which neurotransmitters move to transmit electrical signals.

Sodium Channels

Protein channels located in cell membranes that allow the passage of sodium ions in and out of the cell, playing a crucial role in generating electrical signals in neurons and muscle cells.