Exam 3: Biological Foundations of Behaviour

The parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for the fight-or-flight response.

The relatively greater localization of a brain function in one hemisphere or the other is called _____________.

Wernicke's area is primarily concerned with speech production,while Broca's area is related to speech comprehension.

The job of the thalamus is to organize sensory input and route it to the appropriate brain areas.

The somatic nervous system:

On a neuron,the structural characteristics of the __________ and ___________ allow for many possible connections between neurons.

Ashley's parents do not like the contemporary techno music that Ashley and her friends listen to and prefer old show tunes to which they can sing along.Along with the neurons that help them sense the music,there is a link between the sensory input from a song they are listening to,and their memory of that song.This link is made by ___________________.

For most people,verbal,speech,and logical abilities are localized in the ______ hemisphere.

The two divisions of the autonomic nervous system are:

The resting potential of the typical neuron is -65 millivolts.

The process in which neurotransmitters are deactivated when they are taken back into the presynaptic axon terminal is called:

In addition to reuptake,neurotransmitters can also be deactivated by being:

It is relatively easy to see how there can be trillions of interconnections in the brain,given the diverse structures of the ______________.

Split-brain research was made possible originally by surgical techniques done to limit the potential brain damage caused by epileptic seizures.This was accomplished by cutting the _________________.

PET scans are used to study brain activity while CT scans are utilized to examine brain structures.

The two divisions of the peripheral nervous system are:

In the human body,the sympathetic system is responsible for activating the body for such things as the fight-or-flight response.The system is responsible for calming and slowing down the body is called the ____________________.

In the human body,which system is responsible for activating the body for things such as the fight-or-flight response?

The synaptic cleft is a tiny gap between:

Research on schizophrenia has found that men with this disorder have abnormalities that might account for their confused thinking and disordered attention.These abnormalities tended to occur in their _______________.