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

Which of our human ancestors had the largest brain size?

The set of brain structures responsible for most of our unconscious behaviors is called:

_____ are ideas,behaviors,or styles that spread from person to person in a culture and can be influenced by brain structure.

A behavior that is typical of all members of a species is called:

Humans are of the order ____ and the family_____.

You have discovered a new breed of monkey in the jungles of South America.The diet of these monkeys appears to consist mainly of fruit.Based on what you know about evolution and other fruit-eating monkeys,which statement is likely to apply to this newly discovered breed of monkey?

All the nerve processes radiating out beyond the brain and spinal cord as well as all the neurons outside the brain and spinal cord constitute the:

Reading and writing were invented approximately:

The first primate to walk upright similar to humans was:

Which sequences is correct?

The correct order of these early hominids from smallest to largest brain size is:

If one person has a brain weighing 1000 grams and another has a brain weighing 1500 grams,the difference most likely reflects:

The notion that the mind resides in the pineal body comes from:

The correct order of organisms from the least complex to the most complex nervous system is:

The correct order of the evolution of nervous systems from simple to complex is:

Fruit-eating primates:

The _____ is a nonmaterial entity that is responsible for intelligence,attention,awareness,and consciousness.

Crossbill birds have a beak that is designed to eat pine cones.If we trim the beak,the behavior disappears.This example illustrates:

More advanced nervous systems often have similar structures on the left and right sides (e.g. ,the left and right hemispheres of the brain).This concept is known as:

Descartes's followers would argue that: