The Brain
The Nervous System
Chemicals in the Nervous System
Biological & Evolutionary Psychology
Brain Damage and Disorders
100
For most people, speech functions are primarily localized in this hemisphere of the brain.
What is the left cerebral hemisphere?
100
Activation of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system results in these physical responses.
What are increased respiration and heart rate, and decreased digestion and activity in the tear ducts?
100
Painkilling substances produced by the brain are known as this.
What are endorphins?
100
This perspective argues that humans are genetically programmed to ensure that there is a new generation of the species.
What is evolutionary psychology?
100
A patient suffered a stroke as a result of a brain injury. Although he can still move the fingers on his left hand, he has lost sensation in these parts. Of the following, the site of damage to his brain is most likely in this lobe of the brain (be specific).
What is the right parietal lobe?
200
This part of the brain is most active in decision-making.
What is the cerebral cortex?
200
The firing of neurons is this kind of response, meaning the neuron fires or it doesn't.
What is all-or-none?
200
Ovaries and testes release these hormones.
What are estrogen and testosterone, respectively?
200
The result of the evolutionary process that preserves traits that enhance the adaptation of an organism and suppresses traits that do not is called this.
What is natural selection?
200
Neurosurgeons cut the corpus callosum in the brain disrupting communication between the right and left hemispheres to treat this disorder.
What are epileptic seizures?
300
The occipital lobes contain this sense cortex.
What is the primary visual cortex?
300
The role of the parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system is to establish this.
What is homeostasis after the fight-or-flight response?
300
A neuron without terminal buttons would be unable to do this.
What is secrete neurotransmitters to postsynaptic neurons?
300
This is the brain-imaging technique that produces the most detailed picture of brain structure.
What is a MRI?
300
Stimulation of portions of the left temporal lobe of the brain during surgery will cause the patient to experience this sensation.
What is hearing sounds?
400
The reticular activating system regulates this.
What is your level of arousal?
400
The primary effect of the myelin sheath is this.
What is to increase the velocity (speed) of conduction of the action potential along the axon?
400
Dopamine, norepinephrine, and acetylcholine are all this chemical in the brain.
What are neurotransmitters?
400
The correlation between the IQ scores of identical twins reared apart is lower than those of identical twins reared together. According to this research, this played this role in determining IQ.
What is environment (nurture)?
400
A brain tumor that results in obesity would most likely be located in this part of the brain.
What is the hypothalamus?
500
The thalamus processes information for all of the following senses EXCEPT this one.
What is smell?
500
When a neuron is stimulated to threshold, the movement of these ions across the membrane creates an action potential.
What are sodium and potassium ions?
500
In an emergency situation, these glands secrete hormones that cause mood swings.
What are the adrenal glands?
500
Assume that R represents a dominant gene in rats for white fur and that r represents a recessive gene in rats for grey fur. Mating a female Rr rat with a male RR rat will produce offspring that are this percentage of white rats.
What is 100%?
500
This genetic disorder results in a deficiency of a liver enzyme which, if not treated soon after birth, may eventually lead to profound mental retardation.
What is Phenylketonuria (PKU)?
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