Exam 1:What Are the Origins of Brain and Behavior? Part B

Humans are classed as:

The acquisition of culture by humans stems most directly from:

Climate change may have placed pressure on apes to adapt to their environment.Specifically,apes that lived in _____ climates may have begun to walk upright.

The first humanlike brain evolved:

Which is NOT part of the peripheral nervous system?

Humans are most closely related to:

A person who can display some rudimentary behaviors such as smiling or blinking but is otherwise not conscious is described as being:

Animals with both a brain and a spinal cord are called:

Dunbar proposed that group sizes of _____ tend to be correlated with increased brain size in primates.

The radiator hypothesis is a theory relating to:

Neuroscientists study the nervous systems of other animals such as slugs,snails,fruit flies,rats and monkeys because:

Compared with Australopithecus skulls,human skulls contain holes through which blood vessels could pass.This would have led to:

A notochord is a:

Comparing intelligence between species is difficult because we are typically reduced to comparing:

The difficulty in explaining how a nonmaterial mind can influence a material body is called:

You and your grandfather both take the same intelligence test and you score almost 20 points higher! This is an example of the _____ and it is likely due to _____.

Modern Europeans may have acquired genes that helped them adapt to the cold and absorb more vitamin D through interbreeding with:

The hypothesis that the psyche is responsible for behavior was expounded by:

The study of how genetic expression is related to the environment and experience is known as:

The encephalization quotient is determined by: