Exam 1: What Is Behavioral Neuroscience

Most pregnant women undergo regular medical evaluations of their pregnancies beginning at 8 weeks after fertilization. At this point in development, the fertilized egg is referred to by scientists as a(n) ______.

About 97% of our DNA does not encode ______.

What does the "double helix" refer to?

Neither of Sean's parents has a red-green color deficiency, but Sean does. Why is this possible?

How have cases of people with brain damage, such as Phineas Gage and Broca's patient, contributed to our understanding of the relationship between brain and behavior?

Discuss the role of models in guiding research, with Descartes' model as an example.

How long did it take researchers to sequence all of the genes in the human genome?

Which theory was consistent with the idea of localization?

How are sperm cells different from body cells?

What is one concern that has been raised over explaining behaviors with a hereditary cause?

Which of the following people was a physiologist?

Karl Lashley is known for developing the theory of ______, which stated that behaviors arise from equal involvement of all the parts of the brain.

Which of the following statements about chromosomes is true?

What information has the Human Genome Project provided to scientists?

How would the Human Genome Project have been helpful in identifying the gene involved in Huntington's disease if that information had been available earlier?

Adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine are nucleotides that make up ______.

Distinguish between the terms "dominance" and "recessiveness" and between "heterozygous" and "homozygous," using the trait of unattached versus attached earlobes.

A woman is involved in a car crash and, as a result, cannot speak at all for several days. Surprisingly, she can still hear and understand what her doctor is saying perfectly well. If her doctor ordered a CAT scan of her brain (a form of X-ray), where might the doctor see damage/swelling?

Which of the following individuals was important to developing the understanding that nerve cells communicate using electrical signals?

Which of the following individuals was a dualist?