How Does Temporal Summation Create an Action Potential

question 139

Multiple Choice

How does temporal summation create an action potential?

• A) Potentials are generated on several dendrites at the same time to trigger threshold and the production of an action potential.
• B) It is frequency modulated and of the same amplitude for intensity.
• C) The temporal lobe in the brain stimulates EPSPs to trigger an action potential.
• D) Two or more postsynaptic potentials are generated in rapid succession at the same synapse before they can dissipate, thereby exceeding threshold.
• E) Generator potentials are at the same tempo on adjacent neurons.

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Definitions:

One-Tail P-Value

The probability, in hypothesis testing, of observing a test statistic as extreme as, or more extreme than, the value observed under the assumption that the null hypothesis is true, in one direction.

Two-Tail Test

A statistical test in which the critical area of a distribution is two-sided and tests whether a sample is greater than or less than a certain range of values.

Critical Values

Specific points on the scale of a statistical distribution that are associated with a specified significance level, used for hypothesis testing.

Rejection Regions

Specific areas in the distribution of a test statistic that, if the observed test statistic falls within, will lead to the rejection of the null hypothesis.