Exam 3: Neuroscience

What part of the nervous system controls voluntary muscles?

According to your textbook,which of the following is NOT a physical characteristic important in human mate selection?

The part of brain closest to the spinal cord is the ___; it is important for such functions as ___.

Which of the following ways to study the brain is NOT a neuroimaging technique?

Grenata has suffered a stroke to the left hemisphere of the brain that has affected her body movement.Which side of her body is most likely to have been affected?

Ivan is acting in a play about the human nervous system and has the starring role as a neuron.Unfortunately,his costume makes him look more like a tree than a neuron,and it requires that he hold his arms up like branches for the whole play. What part of Ivan's costume would correspond to the dendrites of the neuron?

Imagine you could look through the top of someone's head at the brain structure beneath it.Which of the following would you definitely NOT be looking at?

The reticular formation is composed of cell groups in the brain's ___ and is the major brain source of the neurotransmitter ___.

Which of the following was one of the critical observations made by Darwin to explain the diversity of life on earth?

Yolanda is studying neurogenesis in mice,and is very excited about her latest results.Specifically,she found that ___ increases neurogenesis in the ___.

Mikiko has invented a game for her psychology study group to learn the facts about cells in the nervous system.She made a bunch of cards,each containing one fact about a cell,and this fact could be true or false.If the fact on the card is true,the group should say nothing,but if it is false the first one to say so gets 10 points.If Mikiko read the facts you see below,for which one would you receive 10 points?

Which side of the brain is thought to be dominant in individuals with strong analytical and verbal skills?

The neocortex is responsible for the most complex behaviours in humans.

What type of memory deficit is associated with damage to the hippocampus?

Which of the following is NOT true about glial cells?

Adana has just started graduate school and is navigating her way around the new campus.She's trying to find the bookstore but stumbles across health services instead.She then remembers the campus map,and how the bookstore was right across from health services,so she soon finds her goal.What part of Adana's brain would be especially active during this learning process?

Which of the following are lobes housed within the neocortex?

Donald Hebb described networks of neurons underlying complex behaviours as ___.

At resting potential,the extracellular fluid surrounding neurons does NOT contain ions.

Left brain functions may be associated with creative and abstract reasoning.