Exam 2: The Biological Basis of Behavior

Corey was in an automobile accident that resulted in an injury to her brain. She now has difficulty maintaining her balance and normal body positions. Her ability to understand and comprehend language has also been injured. The part of her brain most likely injured was her ________ lobe.

Research studies carried out on children adopted at birth by parents not related to them to determine the relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior are called ________ studies.

A procedure in which some of the cells that the fetus casts off into the fluid surrounding it in the womb are collected and tested for chromosomal or genetic defects is ________.

Simply put, Broca's area is important for ________, and Wernicke's area is important for ________.

The nervous system is comprised of two major parts - the ________.

The part of the cerebral cortex that receives sensory information from throughout the body from sense receptors in the skin, muscles, joints and internal organs is the ________ lobe.

Our ability to read the facial expressions of emotion in other people is registered primarily in the ________.

Summarize research findings about left-handedness and its causes.

The hemisphere of the brain most dominant in verbal tasks is the right hemisphere.

When sodium ions flow into a neuron and depolarize it, we say the neuron has ________.

Which of the following statements about the endocrine system is false?

An axon is very thick and usually much shorter than dendrites.

Compare and contrast strain studies and selection studies. Why are they used and what has been learned from them? What are the limitations to these techniques?

Neurons that carry messages from the sense organs to the spinal cord or the brain are called ________ neurons.

There are as many as 100 billion neurons in the brain of an average human being.

The testes and the ovaries are ________.

The division of the nervous system that connects the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body is the ________ system.

Human beings have ________ pairs of chromosomes in every normal cell.

Each of the following is a current criticism of evolutionary psychology except ________.

Neurons that collect messages from sense organs and carry those messages to the spinal cord or the brain are called ________.