In transmitting sensory information to the brain, an electrical signal travels from the ________ of a single neuron.
cell body to the axon to the dendrites
dendrites to the axon to the cell body
axon to the cell body to the dendrites
dendrites to the cell body to the axon
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Controls arousal (sleepiness and awakefulness)
Reticular Formation
Thalamus
Amygdala
Medulla
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Known as the "Little Brain" and is in charge of balance and coordinating movements
Thalamus
Reticular Formation
Hypothalamus
Cerebellum
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Damage this and you won't form new memories
Hypothalamus
Hippocampus
Amygdala
Thalamus
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Controls motivational behaviors, including: feeding, fight-flight response, and fornicating
Hippocampus
Amygdala
Reticular Formation
Hypothalamus
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Wrinkled part of the brain's surface where the body processes information
Forebrain
Cerebral Cortex
Corpus Callosum
Cerebellum
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Brain hemisphere associated with spatial abilities and recognizing others faces
Left Hemisphere
Right Hemisphere
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The split-brain procedure involves the cutting of this
Cerebral Cortex
Cerebellum
Corpus Callosum
Caudate Nucleus
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Shows brain function by using a radioactive glucose solution (active neurons love glucose)
MRI
CT Scan
PET Scan
fMRI
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The ability of brain tissue to take on new functions, usually occurs after parts of the brain have been damaged
Neurogenesis
Brain Plasticity
Somatic Regeneration
Stem Cell Lesions
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A tumor on the temporal lobe would most affect the career of
an architect
a musician
a professor
a researcher
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Damage to the medulla would most likely result in
impaired planning abilities
death
a coma
blindness
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Damage to the prefrontal cortex would most likely result in
diminished planning abilities
death
blindess
coma
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A person has a stroke on her occipital lobe. What might happen to her?
reduced planning abilities
deafness
coma
blindness
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Records the waves of electrical activity (studies seizures)
EEG
MRI
CT Scan
fMRI
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Controls hearing, and language comprehension
Frontal Lobe
Temporal Lobe
Occipital Lobe
Parietal Lobe
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The spatial junctions where impulses are chemically transmitted from one neuron to another are called
synapses.
thresholds.
neural networks.
axons.
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Reuptake 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.
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The 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 potential
selective permeability
resting potential
polarization
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What 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?