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- 1. Multiple ChoiceIn transmitting sensory information to the brain, an electrical signal travels from the ________ of a single neuron.cell body to the axon to the dendritesdendrites to the axon to the cell bodyaxon to the cell body to the dendritesdendrites to the cell body to the axon
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Controls arousal (sleepiness and awakefulness)Reticular FormationThalamusAmygdalaMedulla - 3. Multiple ChoiceKnown as the "Little Brain" and is in charge of balance and coordinating movementsThalamusReticular FormationHypothalamusCerebellum
- 4. Multiple ChoiceDamage this and you won't form new memoriesHypothalamusHippocampusAmygdalaThalamus
- 5. Multiple ChoiceControls motivational behaviors, including: feeding, fight-flight response, and fornicatingHippocampusAmygdalaReticular FormationHypothalamus
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWrinkled part of the brain's surface where the body processes informationForebrainCerebral CortexCorpus CallosumCerebellum
- 7. Multiple ChoiceBrain hemisphere associated with spatial abilities and recognizing others facesLeft HemisphereRight Hemisphere
- 8. Multiple ChoiceThe split-brain procedure involves the cutting of thisCerebral CortexCerebellumCorpus CallosumCaudate Nucleus
- 9. Multiple ChoiceShows brain function by using a radioactive glucose solution (active neurons love glucose)MRICT ScanPET ScanfMRI
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThe ability of brain tissue to take on new functions, usually occurs after parts of the brain have been damagedNeurogenesisBrain PlasticitySomatic RegenerationStem Cell Lesions
- 11. Multiple ChoiceA tumor on the temporal lobe would most affect the career ofan architecta musiciana professora researcher
- 12. Multiple ChoiceDamage to the medulla would most likely result inimpaired planning abilitiesdeatha comablindness
- 13. Multiple ChoiceDamage to the prefrontal cortex would most likely result indiminished planning abilitiesdeathblindesscoma
- 14. Multiple ChoiceA person has a stroke on her occipital lobe. What might happen to her?reduced planning abilitiesdeafnesscomablindness
- 15. Multiple ChoiceRecords the waves of electrical activity (studies seizures)EEGMRICT ScanfMRI
- 16. Multiple ChoiceControls hearing, and language comprehensionFrontal LobeTemporal LobeOccipital LobeParietal Lobe
- 17. Multiple ChoiceThe spatial junctions where impulses are chemically transmitted from one neuron to another are calledsynapses.thresholds.neural networks.axons.
- 18. Multiple ChoiceReuptake is best defined as...release of hormones into the bloodstream.movement of neurotransmitter molecules across a synaptic gap.reabsorption of excess neurotransmitter molecules by a sending neuron.inflow of positively charged ions through an axon membrane.
- 19. Multiple ChoiceThe axon of a resting neuron has gates that do not allow positive sodium ions to pass through the cell membrane. What is this characteristic called?action potentialselective permeabilityresting potentialpolarization
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWhat are the molecules that are similar enough to a neurotransmitter to bind to its receptor sites on a dendrite and mimic that neurotransmitter's effects called?agonistsantagonistsendocrinesendorphins
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