Exam 3: Neuroscience and Behavior

The parietal lobe is MOST associated with the sense of:

The _____ lobe processes information about touch.

The body of the cell containing its nucleus is termed the axon.

The limbic system is NOT involved in:

Which activity is NOT a function of the sympathetic nervous system?

A heritability coefficient of 1.0 for a trait indicates that the environment cannot explain any of the observed variability in that trait.

Small electrically charged particles are called:

Purkinje cells transmit information between the _____ and the rest of the brain.

_____ is a functional neuroimaging technique in which a harmless radioactive substance is injected into the bloodstream and then absorbed by brain regions as they require blood flow.

Association areas in the occipital lobe:

Which animal's brain has the LARGEST frontal lobes?

The hypothalamus does NOT regulate:

The _____ serves as a relay station between the _____ and the rest of the brain.

A person with damage to Wernicke's area will have problems understanding language.

Dr.Anderson is interested in how the brains of Old World monkeys evolved over time.She studies brain:

Which brain region is NOT involved with movement?

_____ are cells in the nervous system that communicate with one another to perform information-processing tasks.

Louis's heart races for no reason at various times throughout the day.In diagnosing the problem,a medical doctor might want to check the functioning of which gland(s)?

The hindbrain does NOT control:

Heritability scores higher than 0 but less than 1.00 indicate the: