Memories Are Stored in the Nervous System by

question 26

Multiple Choice

Memories are stored in the nervous system by

• A) specific neurons in the cortex.
• B) rearrangement of synaptic contacts.
• C) selective apoptosis of neurons.
• D) changes in synaptic efficiency.

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Definitions:

Variation

A measure of the spread or dispersion of a set of data points within a dataset.

Null Hypothesis

A default hypothesis that there is no significant effect or difference, and any observed variation is due to chance.

Normally Distributed

Describes a distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Population Means

The average value of a particular characteristic or measurement taken from every member of an entire population.