Describe the Basal Ganglia and What It Does

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Describe the Basal Ganglia and what it does?

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Definitions:

Ethnic Differences

Variations in behaviors, traditions, practices, and beliefs observed between distinct ethnic groups or cultures.

Intelligence Test Scores

Numeric scores derived from assessments designed to measure an individual's cognitive abilities in comparison to a population norm.

Subjectively Biased Judgments

Evaluations or decisions made based on personal feelings, tastes, or opinions rather than on objective reality, evidence, or rationality.

Discrimination

(1) In classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus; in operant conditioning, the ability to distinguish responses that are reinforced from similar responses that are not reinforced. (2) In social psychology, unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group or its members.