An Action Potential Has Just Sped Down One of Your

question 33

Multiple Choice

An action potential has just sped down one of your efferent neurons to jerk your hand off the hot stove.Before an action potential will speed through this neuron again,the membrane of the neuron must become repolarized.The time between the action potentials is called the ____ period.

• A) refractory
• B) polarization
• C) self-propagating
• D) repolarization

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Definitions:

Autonomous Morality

Piaget’s second stage of morality in which children have a more flexible view of rules as they begin to value fairness and equality and account for factors like act, intent, and situation.

Heteronomous Morality

Piaget’s first stage of morality when children become aware of rules and view them as absolute and unalterable.

Mutual Perspective Taking

The ability to understand the thoughts and feelings of others from their viewpoint as well as one's own.

Reasoning

The cognitive function of forming deductions, evaluations, or conclusions based on given facts or propositions.