Exam 3: Biological Foundations of Behaviour

Your best friend, Mo, is right-handed. Most likely, Mo would also

You are estimating the number of neurons and synaptic connections in the brains of two patients. Patient A has many more synapses than Patient B. All things being equal, it is likely that

While the hypothalamus is known to play a role in the formation of motivational and emotional urges, it is thought that the coordination of the behaviours needed to satisfy these urges is performed by the .

The function of the descending reticular formation is to:

Damage to the frontal lobe typically results in:

The parietal lobe is located:

During the final period of the championship hockey game, Tim is sliced across the ear by an opponent's skate. Despite the damage to his ear, Tim continues to play the game, and scores the winning goal. Tim's ability to continue playing the game despite the searing pain in his ear is likely a result of a massive release of which type of transmitter?

Which of the following statements regarding the nervous system is true?

The reticular formation is considered to be the "brain's gatekeeper" because:

If there were equal amounts of positive and negative ions inside and outside of a neuron's cell membrane

Sean is a split-brain patient who volunteers to demonstrate to Dr. Jones' psychology classes the effects of his condition. Dr. Jones controls whether objects are presented to either Sean's right or left visual field. When Dr. Jones presents an ordinary pencil to the right side of Sean's visual field, he is ________ due to the language-rich ________ hemisphere.

Helina fell off her bike and hit her head hard. When she woke up in hospital, she was not able to see. Most likely, this was from the pressure on the

Research by Daniel Levitin on the neuroscience of music has found that tempo and rhythm tend to be processed by which areas of the brain?

The two ways in which neurotransmitters are deactivated in the synapse are chemical breakdown and reuptake.

Steve has aphasia. He can talk, but his communication is telegraphic-he has difficulty stringing words together in a sentence. Most likely, Steve has damage to an area in the

During brain surgery, a physician places a small electrode on various portions of the patient's exposed cerebral cortex. Though the patient is anaesthetized, he is still conscious and the physician asks him to report what he experiences when different parts of the brain are electrically activated. This physician is using which method of studying the relation between the brain and behaviour?

Scientists used to think that neurons communicated with each other through direct physical contact. With the advent of the electron microscope, the synapse or gap between neurons is evident and it is apparent that rather than direct contact, the communication Continues through _.

Neuron A and Neuron B synapse with neuron C. You are measuring the electrical activity in Neuron C. When Neuron A fires, there is a depolarization observed in Neuron C, but not enough to generate an action potential. But when Neuron A and Neuron B fire at the same time, there is an action potential generated in Neuron C. How can we explain this?

An excitatory neurotransmitter that is found throughout the brain and is especially important in learning and memory is:

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