Gradually Matching Your Sleep-Waking Cycle to a New Time Schedule

question 341

Multiple Choice

Gradually matching your sleep-waking cycle to a new time schedule is called

• A) drive reduction.
• B) adjusted homeostasis.
• C) fundamental attribution.
• D) preadaptation.

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Definitions:

Terminal Buttons

Terminal buttons are the small nodules at the end of axons that release chemical neurotransmitters, which facilitate the transmission of signals from one neuron to another.

Axons

Long, threadlike parts of a nerve cell along which impulses are conducted from the cell body to other cells.

Dendrites

Branch-like extensions of neurons that receive signals from other neurons and transmit them toward the cell body.

Synaptic Cleft

The small gap between neurons at a synapse, through which neurotransmitters are released to transmit signals to adjacent neurons.