Exam 3: Biological Foundations of Behaviour

The drug Prozac has a positive effect on depression by:

Research on emotion has found that positive emotions such as happiness tend to be located in the left hemisphere while negative emotions such as anger and sadness are more associated with activity in the ______________.

The area of the brain that receives information regarding feelings such as heat,cold,touch,and our awareness of balance is called the:

The immune system can be said to have a "memory" because:

It is relatively easy to see how there can be millions of connections in the brain given the diverse structures of the _________________.

Which of the following examples is NOT related to communication between the nervous system and immune system?

Judith has noticed that her elderly husband is behaving differently lately.His movements have become uncoordinated,jerky,and clumsy,and he even has difficulty walking or getting up from a chair.These symptoms are most likely related to a tumor in the:

Graded potentials are directly proportional to the amount of incoming stimulation,while action potentials are not.

According to the text,the ability of neurons to change their structure and function is called:

Research showing that electrical stimulation or destruction of certain areas of the hypothalamus resulted in almost instantaneous increases or decreases in immune system response demonstrates that:

The association areas in the cortex are where sensory information is first processed.

The Chinese language uses complex pictorial images instead of words,and recent research suggests that there is less left hemisphere lateralization of language in Chinese people than in people who use languages based on alphabets.This is thought to be the case because:

The job of interneurons is to:

When the charge inside of a neuron shifts from -70 millivolts to +40 millivolts,it is called:

Split-brain research is made possible because of the unique crossover wiring of the optic nerve that occurs at the optic chiasma,but the distinctive results of split-brain research will only occur with people who have had their ___________ cut.

The function of the axon is to:

In the human body,the sympathetic system is responsible for activating the body for such things as the fight-or-flight response.The system is responsible for calming and slowing down the body is called the _______________________.

PET scans are used to study brain activity while CT scans are utilized to examine brain structures.

The area of the brain that is involved in mental processes such as thought,memory,and perception is called the .

A person who has just suffered a head trauma due to a car accident is given the "Trail Making Test" by a psychologist in order to assess the person's memory and planning abilities.This test is an example of which method of studying brain-behaviour relations?