Exam 3: Neuroscience and Behavior

Mirror neurons are located in association areas in the occipital lobe of the brain.

Chemicals that pass information across the tiny gap between neurons are called:

The brain and spinal cord make up the _____ nervous system.

Genes are sections on a strand of:

The amygdala is located at the tip of each horn of the:

A(n)_____ is a drug that increases the action of a neurotransmitter.

Hubel and Wiesel mapped the visual cortex using fMRI.

The medulla does NOT control:

fMRI scans measure _____ in the brain.

Which gland(s)specifically regulate(s)stress responses?

Beta blockers function as _____ by blocking a receptor for _____ in the heart.

At rest,there is a higher concentration of _____ inside the cell membrane of the neuron and a higher concentration of _____ outside.

fMRI can measure brain activity across briefer periods than PET.

The likelihood of a monozygotic twin of a person with schizophrenia also having schizophrenia is about _____%.

An informant brings a tip to the police department about suspicious activity at the docks.After detectives meet and process this information,they decide that the best course of action is to send undercover officers to the scene.If the police department were a neural network,the detectives would be functioning as:

Which lobe of the cerebral cortex is involved in understanding language?

An informant brings a tip to the police department about suspicious activity at the docks.After detectives meet and process this information,they decide that the best course of action is to send undercover officers to the scene.If the police department were a neural network,the undercover officers would be functioning as:

Which gland(s)specifically regulate(s)digestive processes?

_____ receive information from the external world and convey this information to the brain via the spinal cord.

General anaesthetics induce unconsciousness by reducing neural activity in the: