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Which route best describes the path of an impulse through a neuron?
dendrites to cell body to axon to terminal buttons
axon to cell body to dendrites to terminal buttons
dendrites to myelin sheath to cell body to axon
cell body to dendrites to cell body to axon
An image of a tree flashes in the left visual field of a split-brain patient. A house flashes in the right visual field. The patient will say?
"I saw a tree"
"I saw a house"
"I didn't see anything"
"I saw a treehouse"
Rachel is walking home at midnight and sees a tiger in the street. Which system does this activate?
Sympathetic nervous system
Parasympathetic nervous system
Endocrine system
Digestive system
During soccer, Carlos was shoved into the goalpost. The back of his head smashed into the frame and he saw stars. Why?
His frontal lobe got jolted
His occipital lobe got jolted
His parietal lobe got jolted
His temporal lobe got jolted
Claire lost her vision then hearing then taste then sense of touch. An MRI revealed a tumor in her brain in which area?
The amygdala
The thalamus
The reticular formation
The cerebellum
The frontal lobe is responsible for
reasoning, planning, impulse control
hearing
smell and taste
vision
A patient is unable to speak as articulately as she could before her head injury. She most likely had damage to
Wernicke's area
Broca's area
Skinner's area
Homunculus
What is the synaptic gap?
The space between the top of the spinal cord and the brainstem
The space between a sending neuron and a receiving neuron
The space between each of the lobes in the brain
The space between each vertebrate in the spinal cord
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