The "Daughters of Liberty" Was the Name Given To

question 28

Multiple Choice

The "Daughters of Liberty" was the name given to:

• A) the female children of the Founding Fathers, especially the daughters of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson.
• B) New England women who won voting rights in the 1770s.
• C) the brave women who cared for wounded soldiers during the early battles of the Revolution.
• D) women who spun and wove to create their own clothing rather than buy British goods.

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Definitions:

Stimulus

An event or object that evokes a specific response from an organism or system.

Hebb Rule

a theory in neuroscience that proposes an increase in synaptic efficacy arises from the presynaptic cell's repeated and persistent stimulation of the postsynaptic cell.

Synapse

A junction between two nerve cells, consisting of a minute gap across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter.

Long-Term Potentiation

A process, hypothesized to be a mechanism for long-term learning, in which neural circuits in the hippocampus are subjected to repeated and intense electrical stimulation, resulting in hippocampal cells that are more sensitive to stimuli than they were previously.