Exam 8: Consciousness, the Brain, and Behavior

A laboratory rat has an electrode implanted in its brain.By pressing a metal bar in its cage,the animal can activate the electrode.Which of the following is most likely to be true?

Regarding schizophrenia,

Which of the following most accurately describes the state of consciousness known as REM sleep?

Symptoms of withdrawal when drug use is stopped

Habituation to a stimulus

Dreaming is descriptive of or occurs during

The most nearly correct sequence of activation of brain areas when one responds in writing to a verbal command is:

Neurotransmitters involved in the reward pathways include enkephalin,dopamine and epinephrine.

Damage to which of the following brain structures is most likely to result in difficulty in being able to remember meeting new people?

In most people,all of the following functions are lateralized to the left hemisphere except

The mood disorders are primarily disturbances of thought processes.

Working memory is labile and can be lost in response to any condition that interrupts electrical activity of the brain.

Administration of chlorpromazine to a rat that has an electrode implanted in the lateral hypothalamus will cause an increase in rate of the rat's self-stimulation.

Retrograde amnesia associated with a traumatic head injury can be directly related to the loss of memories considered as both short-term and long-term,including any events immediately related to the trauma.

Conceptual aphasia is a result of damage to

Sleep-wake cycles are produced by interactions of nuclei in the brain stem.

When a person loses consciousness,working memory is interrupted and memories are abolished for all that happened for a variable period of time before the blow that caused unconsciousness.Why?

This part of the brain is thought to control the various states of consciousness

A person with bilateral damage to the substantia nigra region of the brain will probably

In sleep apnea