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You Are a Scientist Studying the Impact of a Drug

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You are a scientist studying the impact of a drug on conduction velocity. You find that you are unable to identify any axons that conduct action potentials faster than 70 m/s. You conclude that the drug likely has a negative effect on which type of neurons?


Definitions:

Serial-position Effect

A memory phenomenon in which recall accuracy varies as a function of an item's position in a study list, with better recall of items at the beginning and end.

Encoding Specificity

The theory that memory is enhanced when information available at encoding is also available at retrieval.

Interference Theory

The view that we may forget stored material because other learning interferes with it.

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