Exam 3: Neuroscience and Behavior-Part C

If you continually practice a skill involving precise and coordinated movements of the fingers,the areas associated with your fingers in the sensory and motor cortices will increase in size and/or function.

Single-celled protozoa were the first organisms to display a central nervous system.

The cell body of the neuron transmits information to other neurons.

The pain withdrawal reflex occurs without any input from the brain.

The corpus callosum enables communication between the left and right brain hemispheres.

Heritability is meaningful only for the environmental conditions in which it was computed.

Severing the connections between the reticular formation and the rest of the brain may result in an irreversible coma.

The frontal lobe contains the motor cortex.

Amphetamine and cocaine both prevent the reuptake of norepinephrine and dopamine.

One of the functions of the parasympathetic nervous system is to relax the bladder.

A person with damage to Wernicke's area will have problems understanding language.

During prenatal development,the forebrain develops before the hindbrain.

The medulla is referred to as the "little brain" because it is extremely vital to basic life functions.

Electrochemical conduction refers to the movement of an electric signal within a neuron.

The electroencephalograph (EEG)is used to measure brain structure.

Dopamine is involved in associating actions with rewards.

The first neurons appeared in flatworms.

Purkinje cells are interneurons that carry information from the cerebellum to the rest of the central nervous system.

Evidence suggests that the human brain stopped evolving approximately 200,000 years ago when the first Homo sapiens appeared.

It is possible to record the electrical activity from a single neuron.