Exam 3: Biological Foundations of Behaviour

Dopamine is the neurotransmitter involved in several mental disorders. Too much can result in ________, while too little can result in _.

A CT scan is used to study brain while the PET scan is used to examine brain ________.

The memory of a woman is substantially impaired after she injures her head falling off of a ladder. In particular, she is unable to remember recent events that have happened to her. Damage to which of the following brain areas is most likely responsible for these difficulties?

Very young children have about 50 percent more brain synapses than do mature adults. 166)

Which lobe is found in the back of the brain and is the location of the brain's visual system?

The area of the brain that receives information regarding feelings such as heat, cold, touch, and our awareness of balance is called the:

According to the text, which of following neurotransmitters should you target if you wanted to treat depression?

An excitatory neurotransmitter really works by

The gaps between segments of myelin sheath that occur at regular intervals are called:

While a neuron will fire more frequently as stimulus intensity increases, there is a limit on how frequently a neuron can generate an action potential. This limit is set by the neuron's

Sonny went to a party and drank more alcohol that his body could handle. In fact, Sonny became unconscious. His friends called 9-1-1 and he was taken to the hospital. The emergency staff quickly realized that Sonny had high levels of alcohol intoxication and put him on life support. Your textbook mentions that this could be because the alcohol had

The alternate opening and closing of sodium and potassium channels in the axon is responsible for generating

The main function of glial cells is to speed up the transmission of neural impulses.

George has agreed to participate in a memory experiment where both the structure of his brain and the brain activity will be captured as he performs various memory tasks. He has been assured he will not be exposed to X-rays and the procedure is relatively non-intrusive. George will be having:

In a large communication network such as the National Telephone Company, the actual cables and transmissions could be analogous to the body's neurons, while the technicians and mechanics that support the equipment are analogous to the body's _.

Most of the time our internal organs are in a state of equilibrium. This is due to the interaction between these two systems.

If your hypothalamus happens to be damaged in a stroke, there is a good chance that you would

The two divisions of the peripheral nervous system are:

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 two divisions of the autonomic nervous system are the somatic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.