Exam 3: Biological Foundations of Behaviour

Your friend has just received some wonderful news so she laughs and is very joyful. While she is laughing, your friend's _____________ will likely show more activity.

Glial cells have many functions and scientists are beginning to understand that these cells are responsible for more than just "custodial" tasks. According to your textbook, one of the most recent discoveries about glial cells is that

Judith has noticed that her elderly husband is behaving differently lately. His movements have become uncoordinated, jerky, and clumsy, and he even has difficulty walking or getting up from a chair. These symptoms are most likely related to a tumour in the

Sarah injures her head falling off of a ladder and then is unable to remember recent events that have happened since her fall. Damage to which brain area is most likely responsible for her memory difficulties?

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

When the resting potential of a neuron becomes more positive (e.g., goes from -70 millivolts to +40 millivolts), this is referred to as ___________.

The somatic nervous system is responsible for ___________.

The parietal lobe is located

Let's say that you are a medical doctor. One of your patients seems to be suffering from an under supply of serotonin. What disorder would you suspect that his patient has?

When we're asked to read a passage of text out loud, many parts of the brain are required to recognize the letters, give them meaning, and translate them into speech. Even if each of these parts of the brain is intact, damage to parts of the brain that connect them, collectively referred to as ___________________, can make the process difficult or impossible.

The overall charge inside a resting neuron is ___________.

The resting potential of the typical neuron is determined by

Patients with frontal lobe damage ____________.

The message communicated by a green and red traffic light can be compared to the messages sent by the neurotransmitters _____ and _____, respectively.

Research on neural plasticity indicates that young children recover more effectively from brain damage than adults. Which of the following can best account for this fact, young children have?

Your friend has had serious brain injury and the doctors want to know if certain areas are still functioning. Which of the following scans would be the best to use for this purpose

Cara has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. It is likely she will be treated with a drug which increases the levels of which neurotransmitter?

During brain surgery, a physician places a small electrode on the patient's exposed cerebral cortex. Although the patient is anesthetized, 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?

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

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.