Which of the Following Is NOT TRUE Regarding Brain Plasticity

question 28

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT TRUE regarding brain plasticity?

• A)Behavior affects neurotransmitter activity
• B)Brain plasticity can be influenced by a number of experiences that occur pre- and post-natally through hormones,diet,aging,stress,disease,and maturation
• C)Any manipulation that produces an enduring change in behavior leaves an anatomical footprint in the brain
• D)Environmental events and responses to those events might cause schizophrenia
• E)Rats raised in a complex environment were able to spontaneously regenerate their hypothalamic nuclei

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Definitions:

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped curve, which is symmetric about the mean, depicting the distribution of many types of data.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measurement of variance or dispersion within a dataset, indicating how spread out the numbers are from the mean.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, commonly used as an estimate of the accuracy of a sample mean.

Sample Mean

The average of observations collected from a sample, used as an estimate of the population mean.