Exam 2: Brain and Behavior

Which brain area was the earliest layer of the forebrain to develop during evolution and helps organize basic survival responses in lower animals, such as feeding, fleeing, fighting, and reproduction?

The central and peripheral are the two main divisions of the __________ system.

During practice, a football player experiences symptoms commonly associated with having a stroke. The coaches rush him to the hospital so that the doctors can view the structure of this player's brain using a specialized X-ray technique known as a(n)

Scientists destroyed a tiny area of a cat's limbic system by inserting a tiny electrode into this target area and then passing an electric current through the electrode. They then observed the cat for any changes in its behavior, which would provide clues about the function of this affected area. The procedure that was used to destroy the tiny area in the cat's brain is known as

Phineas Gage underwent dramatic personality changes after he experienced serious damage to which lobe of his brain?

When you are playing a video game, your hand and eye movements are under the influence of the __________ nervous system.

Damage to the frontal lobe may affect all of the following EXCEPT

The purpose of the myelin that surrounds the axon is to

Interlinked collections of neurons that process information in our nervous system are called

The thalamus is a football-shaped structure in the forebrain that

The primary visual area of the brain is located in the __________ lobe.

Which of the following is a network of fibers and cell bodies that lie inside the medulla and pons and is associated with attention, alertness, and some reflexes, such as sneezing and coughing?

Which area of the brain is responsible for the human intellectual superiority within the animal kingdom?

Overactivity of which endocrine gland or brain structure leads to tenseness, nervousness, and excitability?

Using which brain tool is X-ray information collected by a computer from a number of different angles and then formed into an image of the brain to reveal the effects of strokes, injuries, tumors, and other brain disorders?