Exam 2: A: Brain and Behavior

You are in the forest and see a large,snarling,drooling grizzly bear running directly toward you.The adrenaline rush you feel is controlled by the

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

We flash a picture of a tree to the right brain of a split-brain patient and a picture of a dog to his left brain.If we ask the split-brain patient to draw what he saw using his left hand (out of sight),he will

Receptive or fluent aphasia is caused by damage to

Areas of the brain that are NOT primarily sensory or motor in function are called the

The brains of persons with schizophrenia are usually smaller than normal,indicating that they have fewer neurons.Thus,according to Toro and Deakin,schizophrenia may result from

Harriet has lost the ability to recognize faces,and she has also lost the ability to detect the emotions that other people are feeling.You would expect to find damage to her

The whitish,fatty substance that surrounds some axons and aids conduction of a nerve impulse down the axon is called

The usual flow of information in a reflex arc is

The purpose of the myelin that surrounds the axon is to

The most likely consequence of a split-brain operation is a patient

Santana steps on a tack and jerks her foot back.This pain will

The human capacity to empathize and identify with other people's points of view and their feelings may arise directly from the activation of

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

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?

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 __________ studies.

A critical link between the chemical and neural information systems in humans is the link between the

Feelings of pleasure or euphora similar to being "high" on morphine occur when which of the following are released in the brain?

Three of these techniques allow scientists to observe the activity of parts of the brain without doing any damage at all.Which technique would cause some degree of damage to the living brain?

The pineal gland releases a hormone called