Exam 3: Biological Foundations of Behaviour

Jensen is learning to ride a bike without training wheels. At first, when the bike tips, Jensen has to put his feet on the ground to keep himself from falling. Eventually, with his father's help, he learns how it feels to balance on the bike and how to coordinate all of his movements to keep the bike upright. The part of Jensen's brain that is responsible for coordinating muscular movements and remembering them later is the

The two divisions of the peripheral nervous system are

On a hot summer day, five children decide to fill up Brock's kiddie pool. Yesterday, Brock's father ran over the hose with the lawnmower, so the hose is not working. The children decide to create a bucket line from the faucet to the pool. The first child passes the full bucket to the second child, the second to the third, and so on until the last child empties the bucket into the pool and tosses the bucket back to the first child. If we compare the children's bucket line to a SINGLE neuron, we can say that the water, which is passed from child to child until it reaches the pool, is like the __________________, or nerve impulse, which is passed through the axon.

The nucleus of the neuron and the biochemical structures needed for cell survival are contained in the ___________.

Functions such as goal-setting and strategic planning are associated with the ___________ cortex.

Wilder Penfield was a prominent Canadian neurosurgeon who is known to have gathered much of our knowledge of the functions of the human cerebral cortex before the advent of modern brain-imaging techniques. In particular, he found that

The neurotransmitter dopamine was mentioned as involved in all the following disorders EXCEPT for

Hormones to the pituitary gland is like sleep and arousal to?

John has been diagnosed with a condition where there is damage of the myelin sheath. John likely has ___________.

Which of the following statements about the motor cortex is true?

Research on neural plasticity indicates that young children recover more effectively from brain damage than adults. This may be because

If a neurotransmitter hyperpolarizes the postsynaptic membrane, the effect is

When Kimura, of the University of Western Ontario, presented stimuli like letters, words, faces, and music to research participants such that the stimuli arrived first in either the left or right hemisphere, she found that

An agonist is a(n) ___________.

After a neural impulse passes a point on the axon, the period during which the membrane cannot discharge another potential is called depolarization.

It is the activation of axons going to the _______ that is important for reward and motivation.

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?

Under neuron resting conditions, the inside of the neuron has more sodium than the outside

Research indicates that differences in specializations between right and left hemisphere functions go unnoticed because of _____________.

Any drug that inhibits or decreases the effect of a neurotransmitter is called a(n) ________________.