Exam 3: Neuroscience and Behavior

L-dopa is a common drug used to treat the delusions associated with schizophrenia.

Which drug(s)might BEST treat an actor suffering from stage fright?

The electrical charge inside of the neuron relative to the outside reaches _____ millivolts during an action potential.

When walking home alone late one night,you are startled by a moving shadow that you glimpse out of the corner of your eye.The _____ division of the autonomic nervous system mobilizes your body's defences.When you see that the shadow is just the neighbour's cat,the _____ division begins to lessen your physiological arousal.

The corpus callosum enables communication between the left and right brain hemispheres.

The somatosensory area of the cerebral cortex has more area devoted to processing:

Suppose you observe an elderly patient with sudden paralysis in his left arm and left leg.What is your BEST guess about where a brain injury or stroke occurred?

An action potential cannot occur during the refractory period.

The cerebral cortex,with its characteristic fissures,does not develop until the middle of pregnancy.

The _____ is a central location for neurotransmitters that are critical for motivation,mood,and arousal.

A neuroscientist analyzes the central nervous system of a 5-week-old human embryo.She is MOST likely to observe:

The characteristic fissures of the cerebral cortex are evident by which month of pregnancy?

Neurons can exist in simple organisms without central nervous systems.

Dizygotic twins result when a single fertilized egg splits into two.

Wernicke's area is located in the left temporal lobe.

The split-brain procedure involves severing the corpus callosum.

The first central nervous system appeared in flatworms.

The striatum is part of the:

In a CT scan,the cortex appears:

Recent research has determined that intelligence is mostly determined by genetics.