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You are about to start a research project looking into personality variables and their relationship to serotonin. In choosing subjects you are interested in subjects who have a short allele of a serotonin transporter that causes them to have less serotonin in their system, but its also likely that this group would be using an SSRI, a group of drugs that reduce serotonin re-uptake. So you are looing for people high in _____________ who are not currently using an SSRI.
 
  a. Extraversion
  b. Psychoticism
  c. Anxiety
  d. Neuroticism

Question 2

Research suggests that extraverts have greater ________ activity than introverts in general
 
  a. dopamine
  b. serotonin
  c. GABA
  d. estrogen



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: d: Neuroticism

Answer to Question 2

Answer: a: dopamine





 

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