Which of the following is NOT true of neural impulses?
a. The neuron fires in response to every impulse it receives.
b. Neural impulses travel at speeds ranging from 3 feet per second to 400 feet per
second.
c. The incoming message must be above a certain threshold to cause a neural impulse.
d. The neuron may fire during the relative refractory period.
a
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As part of her graduate dissertation, Nadine gives a group of personality tests to fourth-graders. Included among these tests is a measure of popularity that she herself authored. Factor analysis of her data yields two factors: extraversion and creativity. Nadine then finds that her popularity measure had a high positive correlation with the extraversion factor and a high negative correlation with the creativity factor. What do the results mean?
a) The popularity measure is strongly related to both extraversion and creativity. b) The popularity measure is strongly related to creativity but not to extraversion. c) The popularity measure is strongly related to extraversion but not to creativity. d) The popularity measure is unrelated to either extraversion or creativity.
This is the study of how language is acquired, produced, and used and how sounds and symbols are translated into meaning
a) psycholinguistics b) semantics c) linguistics d) communication theory