The Youth Crime Severity Index (CSI) Measures the Seriousness of Crime

question 55

True/False

The youth Crime Severity Index (CSI) measures the seriousness of crime reported to the police.

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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.