Motivation, Reward, and the Planning of Behavior Are Influenced by This

question 695

Multiple Choice

Motivation, reward, and the planning of behavior are influenced by this neurotransmitter with reduced feelings of pleasure as well as Parkinson's disease being linked with a deficiency of it.This excitatory neurotransmitter is

• A) dopamine.
• B) GABA.
• C) serotonin.
• D) glutamate.

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Definitions:

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a data set, indicating the span of data points.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a set of numerical data, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion representing how much the data points in a data set diverge from the mean value.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them all together and dividing by the number of numbers.