Agonists Always Have a Beneficial Effect on Neural Activity, but Antagonists

question 15

True/False

 Agonists always have a beneficial effect on neural activity, but antagonists are always poisonous.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A learning principle where behaviors are modified by the consequences that follow them, with rewards increasing desired actions and punishments reducing their occurrence.

Predictability

The ability to accurately forecast future events or behaviors based on patterns or prior knowledge.

Rescorla And Wagner

Psychologists who developed a model explaining how the strength of a stimulus-response association is determined in classical conditioning.

Instinctive Drift

The tendency of learned behavior to gradually revert to biologically predisposed patterns.