Exam 3: Biological Foundations of Behaviour

The area of the brain that is involved in various aspects of motivational and emotional behaviour,such as sex,temperature regulation,sleeping,eating,and drinking,is the _________.

Which of the following drugs influences ACh and dopamine activity?

Activation of the sympathetic nervous system produces arousal that speeds up your heart,dilates your pupils,and slows down your digestive system.This is sometimes called the ________________.

Spinal reflexes are reflexes that:

Agnosia is the inability to identify familiar objects.The area of the brain that is responsible for this is the ___________.

The area of the brain that is involved in mental processes such as thought,language,and perception is called the:

To measure brain-behaviour relations,this method uses highly concentrated X-rays to take pictures of narrow slices of the brain.This method is called _______________.

Alexis is riding her bicycle to school one day and slides on some loose gravel at the bottom of a hill.Her bike flies out from under her and she loses consciousness.At the hospital,Alexis does not seem oriented to the situation and cannot remember even riding her bike let alone falling.The doctors wish to take pictures of the structure of her brain to determine whether or not there are injuries.To do this,they use a(n)__________________.

What is the effect of the myelin sheath on the conduction of neural impulses?

Severe damage to the right side of the motor cortex:

When the brain is damaged,surviving neurons can restore functioning by modifying themselves either structurally or biochemically.

Brain research has indicated that mathematical,verbal,and logical abilities tend to be located in the left hemisphere for most people.This is an example of what is technically called:

The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems play complementary roles in maintaining a balanced or constant internal state.This constant internal state is referred to as ________________________.

Research on neural plasticity indicates that young children recover more effectively from brain damage than adults.This may be because:

Neurotransmitters that depolarize the postsynaptic neuron are called:

The area of the brain that plays a role in vital life functions,such as heart rate and respiration,is the:

The outermost layer of the brain and the crowning achievement of brain evolution is called the __________.

Which of the following are among the functions affected by the hypothalamus?

One of the functions of glial cells is to:

The areas that comprise the association cortex are sometimes referred to as the "silent areas" because: