Exam 3: Biological Foundations of Behaviour

Adrian Raine and his colleagues argued that violent murders illustrate a failure in executive function, such as lack of judgment and impulse control. In support of this argument, using PET scans on a group of violent murderers who plead not guilty by Reason of insanity, these researchers found reduced activity in the .

Carol suffers from multiple sclerosis. According to your textbook, this is an issue of a disruption in the timing of nerve impulses due to

Ashley's parents do not like the contemporary techno music that Ashley and her friends listen to and prefer old show tunes to which they can sing along. Along with the neurons that help them sense the music, there is a link between the sensory input from a song they are listening to, and their memory of that song. This link is made by _.

An EEG is able to measure

Which of the following statements is not true about brain plasticity?

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

When the resting potential of a neuron becomes more negative (e.g., goes from -70 millivolts to -72 millivolts), this is referred to as:

The electroencephalogram (EEG) is an example of which method of assessing the relation between the brain and behaviour?

Wilder Penfield's pioneering work involved the mapping of the body onto the brain for motor control and the sense of touch using the method of _.

In addition to playing an important role in controlling respiration, the groups of neurons that regulate sleep and dreaming are called the _.

In the human body, which system is responsible for activating the body for things such as the fight-or-flight response?

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

If you wanted to get information on brain activity rather than just structure, which of the following would be the WORST imaging technique to use?

A male rat has a particular area of its brain destroyed and it subsequently loses its sex drive. It is most likely that the site of damage was the rat's _.

Neuron A and Neuron B synapse with Neuron C. You are measuring the electrical activity in Neuron C. When Neuron A fires, an action potential is observed in Neuron C. But when Neuron A and Neuron B fire at the same time, there is no change in the electrical activity of Neuron C. How can we explain this?

It is relatively easy to see how there can be trillions of interconnections in the brain, given the diverse structures of the _.

A new treatment for Parkinson's disease has the side effect of blocking dopamine action in the nucleus accumbens. For a patient on this drug, which of the following would likely be diminished?

In most humans, language is localized:

Julie has damage to Wernicke's area and her friend Jorge has damage to Broca's area. Both Julie and Jorge are likely to suffer from

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 _.