A Recent Sociological Experiment Sought to Determine the Exact Role

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Multiple Choice

A recent sociological experiment sought to determine the exact role social support plays in the health of expectant mothers.To conduct the experiment,the researchers asked midwives to flip a coin each time they received a new client,and if it came up heads to try as hard as possible to put the client in contact with others who could provide social support.If the coin came up tails,the midwives would NOT discourage the woman from receiving social support but would NOT facilitate it either.What is the dependent variable in this experiment?

• A) coin flips
• B) health
• C) social support
• D) midwives

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Definitions:

EPSPs

Stands for Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials, which are temporary increases in neuron membrane potential, making it more likely to fire an action potential.

Temporal Summation

Addition of one graded potential to another that occur close in time.

Spatial Summation

Spatial summation refers to the process where multiple synaptic inputs, predominantly from separate neurons, combine within a single neuron, potentially leading to an action potential if threshold is reached.

IPSPs

Short for Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potentials, these are electrical changes in the postsynaptic neuron that make it less likely to generate an action potential, thereby inhibiting the neuron.