Exam 4: The Brain and Nervous System

The initial decision to approach or withdraw from a person or situation is taken with the help of the _______________.

Which of the following is a type of androgen?

Adrenal hormones play an important role in:

Ronald Myers and Roger Sperry wondered what would happen if the two hemispheres of the brain were cut off from one another. In order to explore their research question, they severed the corpus callosum in cats. Describe the aspects of the cats' behaviours that remained normal and the aspects that showed a profound change.

Cognitive neuroscientists focus on:

Researchers took photographs of different faces, cut them down the middle vertically, and pasted different halves together to form composite faces. The reconstructed photographs were flashed quickly to split-brain patients. It was found that the split-brain patients would:

Which of the following includes the nucleus of the neuron, which contains genetic information, and is shaped roughly like a sphere or a pyramid?

The minuscule space where the axon terminal of one neuron nearly touches a dendrite or the cell body of another is called the _______________.

Affective neuroscientists explore:

Danny suffered brain damage in a car accident. As a result, he is clumsy and uncoordinated. Which structure was most likely damaged?

If you were to randomly sample 100 cells from the brain, approximately how many of them will be neurons?

A collection of neurons and supportive tissue running from the base of the brain down the centre of the back, protected by a column of bones, is called the:

Adrenal hormones are produced by the glands:

Which of the following is true?

Emily is told by her physician that her symptoms are caused by the loss of myelin. Her diagnosis is most likely to be:

The function of the _______________ is to gather and process information, produce responses to stimuli, and coordinate the workings of different cells.

_______________ are the brain's communication specialists, transmitting information to, from, and within the central nervous system.

_______________ is a procedure used by researchers as a "virtual" and temporary method to lesion the brain that temporarily inactivates neural circuits.

Name any four neurotransmitters discussed in the textbook and explain which aspects of behaviour, memory, and well-being each influences.

Endorphins have effects most similar to: