Decreased Areas of Metabolism in the Brain as Shown on a PET

question 327

Multiple Choice

Decreased areas of metabolism in the brain as shown on a PET scan could be due to all of the following except:

• A)Alzheimer's disease.
• B)epilepsy.
• C)Parkinson's disease.
• D)flaccid paralysis.

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Definitions:

Order Effects

Order effects refer to changes in participants' responses in experiments caused by the order in which experimental materials, tasks, or conditions are presented.

Repeated Measures

A research design in which the same participants are measured more than once under different conditions or over time.

Criterion Variables

The dependent variables in research studies that are predicted or explained by independent variables.

Practice Effect

Improvements in performance on a task or test due to repeated testing rather than actual changes in ability or knowledge.