Exam 2: Brain and Behavior.

Which of the following is NOT a side effect of anabolic steroids?

Clarence was in a car accident, and the doctor suspects that he may have suffered damage to his brain.He is put in a chamber with a strong magnetic field that will yield a three-dimensional picture of Clarence's brain.Which technique is being utilized?

Messages flow from the brain to the spinal cord and then to other parts of the body through the __________ nervous system.

Psychiatrist Daniel Langleben and his colleagues have used a new brain technique to tell if a person is lying, with the front of the brain being more active when a person is lying rather than telling the truth.This technology is the

Clear hand preferences can be determined

Visual agnosia may sometimes be helped by

Left-handed people, or "lefties," have often been characterized as

Which area of the cortex combines and processes information from the senses and contributes to higher mental abilities, such as language?

Computed tomographic (CT)scanning involves

If too little growth hormone is released from the pituitary gland, a person may develop

A PET scan records the amount of which radioactive substance used by brain cells?

After having a stroke, Rich can speak and understand what has been said to him, but he now has great difficulty understanding the context in which something is said.Rich also misunderstands sarcasm and jokes.Rich has most likely suffered a stroke to

A researcher electrically stimulates a part of Raphael's brain, and Raphael "hears" a series of sounds.This researcher most likely stimulated Raphael's __________ lobes.

A person with brain damage who mispronounces the word "cross" by saying "croth" and "tsar" for "car" would most likely have damage to

A deficiency in acetylcholine has been shown to play a major role in the development of

The brain center for hearing is in the __________ lobe.

The most accurate conclusion that can be drawn from research on the brain is that

The hypothalamus, the hippocampus, the amygdala, and parts of the thalamus make up the __________ system.

Regarding the limbic system, which of the following statements is TRUE?

Your instructor has just decided not to give the pop test that was announced at the beginning of class.The class breathes a collective "sigh of relief." This relief is best explained by which nervous system?