Exam 3: The Central Nervous System

Match the nervous pathways, labelled a. through d., with their descriptions. (Options may be used more than once or not at all.) -carry information up the spinal cord to the brain

____________________ represent the subjective urges associated with specific bodily needs that motivate appropriate behaviour to satisfy those needs.

Which statement does NOT describe the spinal cord

Match these brain structures, labelled a. through e., with their associated descriptions. (Options may be used more than once or not at all.) -contains centres for respiration, heart and blood vessel function, and many digestive activities

Match the following structures, labelled a. through f., to their descriptions. -The cell bodies of autonomic nerve fibres originate here.

Match the following structures, labelled a. through f., to their descriptions. -contains cell bodies of afferent neurons

The two subdivisions of the autonomic nervous system are the ____________________ and the ____________________.

Stimulation of the frontal lobe produces changes in personality and social behaviour.

If neuronal pathways present at birth are not used during sensitive developmental periods, they may be eliminated.

Grey matter consists predominantly of neuron cell bodies and dendrites.

Efferent neurons are the most abundant type of neuron.

Which of the following tracts transmits conscious sensory impulse regarding touch in the upper body

Match the system, labelled a. through c., with the characteristics. (Options may be used more than once or not at all.) -coordinates rapid activities of the body

The majority of the 12 pairs of cranial nerves arise from the brain stem.

Which of these statements describes the cerebellum

____________________ matter consists predominantly of densely packaged cell bodies and dendrites, whereas ____________________ matter consists of bundles of myelinated nerve fibres.

The meninges, from the outermost to the innermost layer, are the ____________________, the ____________________, and the ____________________.

The recycling of newly acquired information through short-term memory increases the likelihood of long-term memory consolidation.

Match the following structures, labelled a. through j., to their descriptions. -a thick band of axons traversing between the two hemispheres

Match the spinal tracts, labelled a. through e., with their characteristics. (Options may be used more than once or not at all.) -tract for voluntary motor actions