Exam 4: The Brain: Source of Mind and Self

Which of the following statements is true?

Which is the only sense that completely bypasses the thalamus? How is memory related to this particular sense?

A stem-cell research team has grown living cells from precursor cells taken from the brains of human cadavers.

For some types of tasks,especially those involving language,men seem to rely more heavily on one side of the brain,whereas women tend to use both sides.

Researchers took photographs of different faces,cut them in two,and pasted different halves together to form composite faces.The reconstructed photographs were flashed quickly to split-brain patients.It was found that the split-brain patients would:

If neuronal communication were compared to a baseball game,the ________ would be the batters and the ________ would be the catchers.

Marika is making a chart to serve as a study aid for her upcoming psychology quiz.She makes a list of different types of nervous system chemicals and their functions.She writes that the function of endorphins is to:

What part of the brain acts like a switchboard or traffic officer sending sensory information to the appropriate areas of cortex?

Imagine you narrowly avert a serious car accident.When your heart begins to pound,your hands get sweaty,and the saliva in your mouth dries up,your ________ is/are active.

Hundreds of substances are known or suspected to be neurotransmitters.

The human body has 43 pairs of peripheral nerves.

The ________ receives,processes,interprets,and stores incoming sensory information and also sends out messages destined for muscles,glands,and internal organs.

The pons is a structure in the core of the brain stem that arouses the cortex and screens incoming information.

Which of the following neurotransmitters functions as the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain?

The autonomic nervous system controls skeletal muscles.

On each cerebral hemisphere,deep fissures divide the cortex into four distinct lobes.Name each of the four lobes and describe the location of each lobe.

Each brain hemisphere receives information from the eyes about the opposite side of the visual field.

The Austrian anatomist Joseph Gall had a general notion about the brain that has merit.This notion is that:

If your amygdala were damaged,you would probably become exceedingly clumsy and uncoordinated.

The nervous system is divided into the following two main parts: