Exam 2: Brain and Behavior

Chemicals that regulate the activity of other neurons but do not carry messages directly are called

As you are walking down a dark street, you hear a noise directly behind you, and you immediately dart off the sidewalk because of the activation of your amygdala.

Voluntary muscle movement originates in the primary motor cortex, which is located in the __________ lobes.

To demonstrate the impact of different environmental experiences on the brain, one group of rats was raised in a complex environment, while another group of rats was raised in a simpler environment. When their brains were compared, the rats raised in the more complex environments had

The increased size and wrinkling of the cerebral cortex in higher animals is referred to as __________.

Which of the following structural brain techniques may expose patients to unhealthy doses of radioactivity with repeated use?

Since the inside of each resting neuron in your brain has an electrical charge of about -60 to -70 millivolts at the axon compared to the outside of the cell, every neuron in your brain acts as a(n)

Another term for "mindblindness" is

The part of the nerve cell that carries information away from the cell body to other neurons is the

Which part of the brain stores lasting verbal memories and helps us navigate through space?

In humans, the right side of the brain mainly controls which part of the body?

Which of the following changes would you expect to occur in someone whose parietal lobes were damaged in an accident?

In an experiment to test the effects of a new pain killing drug, the control group was given a placebo, which initially reduced their pain because the placebo

If damage to a particular part of the brain consistently leads to a particular loss of function, then we say that the function is

Regarding the endocrine system, which of the following statements is FALSE?

An excess of glutamate has been linked to

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

A person with damage to the association areas in the left hemisphere would most likely suffer

During a lecture when students receive information through their eyes from the notes on the screen and information through their ears as the instructor lectures, the information will first travel through neurons within which nervous system?

The outer portion of the adrenal glands that secretes corticoids is called the adrenal