Exam 2: Neuroscience and Behavior

Although phrenology incorrectly suggested that bumps on the skull revealed a person's character traits, phrenology did succeed in focusing attention on

The nucleus accumbens has been identified as a(n)

Beginning at the front of the brain and moving toward the back of the head, then down the skull and back around to the front, which of the following is the correct order of the cortical regions?

Transferring messages from a motor neuron to a leg muscle requires the neurotransmitter known as

Opiate drugs occupy the same receptor sites as

Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter that

Neural stimulation that exceeds a threshold triggers

You feel the pain of a sprained ankle when ________ relay(s) messages from your ankle to your central nervous system.

Those whose corpus callosum is surgically severed are said to be patients with

Migraines are most closely linked with an

The spinal cord is part of the ________ nervous system.

Which of the following are governed by the simplest neural pathways?

Which brain structure relays information from the eyes to the visual cortex?

Schizophrenia is most closely linked with excess receptor activity for the neurotransmitter

Which brain structure receives information from all the senses except smell?

The nineteenth-century theory that bumps on the skull reveal a person's abilities and traits is called

Sensory neurons are located in the

A psychologist working from the biological perspective would be most interested in conducting research on the relationship between

Which is the correct sequence in the transmission of a simple reflex?

A laboratory cat could be made to twitch its whiskers by direct stimulation of the ________ lobes of its cerebral cortex.