Exam 3: Biological Foundations of Behaviour

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

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

Ursula is sound asleep one night when she is suddenly awakened by a loud noise coming from her backyard. She gets out of bed and moves to the window in order to see what made the noise. Ursula is relying on her nervous system.

Caffeine is an antagonist and therefore it is an example of a drug that:

Computerized axial tomography (CAT) scans, positron emission tomography (PET) scans, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are all examples of which method of measuring brain-behaviour relations?

The primary job of the amygdala is to:

Lucy and her older brother Louis have developed quite a fierce sibling rivalry. On a vacation in Mexico with their father, Louis and Lucy were being relatively well-behaved until one afternoon when Lucy accidentally stepped on her brother's foot and he automatically punched her. Louis apologized profusely saying that he just reacted and didn't even have time to think about what he did before he did it. Louis might try to claim that his brain was unaware of what he was doing at the time he punched Lucy because this type of response is considered a:

If you were to successfully walk backwards placing your feet together heel to toe, which part of the brain would you be relying on?

A new drug has its effect at the postsynaptic membrane. Specifically, it opens both potassium and chlorine channels. The effect will be

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

The neurotransmitter dopamine was mentioned as involved in all the following disorders EXCEPT for:

After a neural impulse passes a point on the axon, the period during which the membrane cannot discharge another potential is called depolarization.

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) _.

Severe damage to the right side of the motor cortex:

When Leslie was born, the doctor delivering her used forceps incorrectly. As a result, Leslie suffered a basal skull fracture and spent the first two weeks of her life in intensive care. Doctors told Leslie's parents that she would experience full recovery but that same fracture is often fatal in twenty year olds. The most likely reason for Leslie's recovery is that:

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

In the wilds of Northern Canada, Joe is elk hunting with some college friends. After the hunters separate in search of a lone elk, Joe finds himself staring straight into the eyes of a grizzly bear. Joe's heart rate increases, and as he runs through the woods praying the bear is not following him, he is aware that he has never run faster. The nervous system responsible for Joe's speedy flight is the _.

A right-handed split-brain patient is shown a picture of a car in the left visual field and a picture of a tire in the right visual field. When asked what he saw, he will reply ________, and if asked to draw the picture with his left hand he will draw _.

Though it was discussed in the context of the nervous system, the hypothalamus also plays an important role in the endocrine system because of its connection with the:

Cara has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. It is likely she will be treated with a drug which increases the levels of which neurotransmitter?