Exam 2: Brain and Behavior

Which area of the limbic system will become more active, if you mentally plan a drive across town?

Area of the brain containing mainly neuron cell bodies is commonly referred to as

The procedure that detects, amplifies, and records electrical activity in the brain is known as

Perceptual skills involved in putting puzzles together or recognizing musical melodies are special skills of the

Carrie has experienced brain damage to her left hemisphere. She will most likely experience difficulty with which ability?

Studies that examine changes in personality, behavior, or sensory capacity caused by brain diseases or injuries and help doctors to localize function by linking psychological or behavioral capacities with particular brain structures are known as

Injury to even small areas of which brain part can cause deafness, blindness, or loss of any other sense, except smell?

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

Which of the following best describes the means by which neurons communicate with each other?

The primary somatosensory area is located in the __________ lobes.

The cerebral cortex in humans accounts for what percent of all the neurons in the central nervous system?

Aaron flexes his muscles as he shoots a basketball into the goal. His voluntary use of his muscles is controlled by which nervous system?

Pierre Flourens surgically removed portions of a rabbit's cerebellum with the rabbit subsequently showing extreme problems with motor coordination. This surgical removal of the surface portions of the cerebellum is an example of

By altering metabolism, which gland can have a sizable effect on personality with overactivity of this gland causing excitability and nervousness and underactivity of this gland causing lethargy and sleepiness?

Perceptual skills involved in putting puzzles together or recognizing musical melodies are special skills of the __________ hemisphere.

Which gland is associated with body rhythms and sleep cycles and secretes the hormone melatonin?

When you touch a hot stove, neurotransmitters cause you to jerk your hand away, while the pain produced causes your brain to release

Patients with right hemisphere damage may not eat food on the left side of a plate or may even refuse to acknowledge a paralyzed left arm as their own, which illustrates the condition known as __________.

Which of the following brain areas was most likely damaged if a person loses his or her ability to understand jokes, irony, sarcasm, and the overall context in which something is said?

Juan's physician has told him that he wants him to take a test that will give a three-dimensional representation of Juan's brain. This procedure will require Juan to be placed in a strong magnetic field. The test being discussed is the