Roberto Is Interested in Studying the Trait of Empathy Using

question 27

Multiple Choice

Roberto is interested in studying the trait of empathy using the act frequency approach.He asks each of the participants in this phase of his study to write down several behaviors highly empathetic people might perform.Roberto collects a pool of 251 empathetic acts.This is called the act _____ procedure of the act frequency approach.

• A)nominalization
• B)nomenclature
• C)nomination
• D)nomothetic

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Definitions:

Oligodendrocytes

Oligodendrocytes are glial cells in the central nervous system that produce myelin, a substance crucial for the insulation of nerve fibers.

Voltage-Gated

Refers to ion channels that open or close in response to changes in membrane potential, critical for nerve impulse conduction.

Node of Ranvier

Gaps in the myelin sheath of nerve fibers where the axonal membrane is exposed, facilitating rapid signal conduction along the neuron.

Axon

The long extension of the neuron that transmits nerve impulses away from the cell body. Compare with dendrite.