Exam 2: Brain and Behavior

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)

Anatomists learned that the brain is made up of many distinct areas or "parts" by cutting apart autopsied human and animal brains and then examining them under a microscope. This procedure being used is known as

Brain wave activity during sleep, daydreaming, hypnosis, and other mental states is likely to be studied using a(n)

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.

The brain and spinal cord make up the __________ nervous system.

A detailed investigation of a single person, especially one suffering from some injury or disease is known as a(n)

Neurotransmitters bind to which of the following located on dendrites and cell bodies?

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

Women are more likely than men to regain the ability to speak after having experienced damage to

Sam has enlarged hands and feet with his larger facial bones creating very prominent facial features. Sam most likely has a condition known as __________.

The importance of socialization may have played a large role in the evolutionary specialization of the association areas in the occipital and frontal lobes for

Bobby suffered a stroke that damaged his brain, causing partial paralysis in his left arm. To increase the rate of neurogenesis in the damaged part of his brain and speed his recovery, Bobby should

A person with brain damage who mispronounces the word "cross" by saying "croth" and "tsar" for "car" would most likely have damage to

Clark was skateboarding and fell backwards hitting his head. He told his friends that he "saw stars" because he hit the brain lobes called the __________ lobes.

Regarding agnosia, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A person with locked-in syndrome is in a persistent vegetative state (brain-dead).

Several areas of the limbic system act as reward, or "pleasure," pathways with many overlapping with the areas that control thirst, sex, and hunger in the

The hypothalamus is a grape-sized structure in the forebrain that

Compared with other creatures, our human intelligence is specifically related to the fact that our brains have a much larger

Doctors confirmed that Mrs. Armand had suffered a stroke by placing her in a chamber in which a computer compiled X-rays from multiple angles to obtain an image of her brain, a technique referred to as a(n) __________.