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| The nervous system is designed for: | show 🗑
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| Hormones are released by the___system whereas pheromones are released by the___system. | show 🗑
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| The soma of a neuron is similar to: | show 🗑
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| show | Depolarize
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| show | Axon.
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| Presynaptic membrane is another name for___. The postsynaptic membrane is____a neuron. | show 🗑
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| Axodendritic synapses____the odds that the____will fire. | show 🗑
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| Which might represent the central nervous system? Which might represent the peripheral nervous system? | show 🗑
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| show | Consciousness. Keeping the organism alive.
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| Frontal cortex is to____as temporal is to____. | show 🗑
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| sympathetic is to___as parasympathetic is to____. | show 🗑
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| Your life would be most immediately threatened if you suffered destruction of the | show 🗑
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| show | decreased by heroin use and increased by vigorous exercise.
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| show | autonomic nervous system.
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| show | lapse into a coma.
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| show | right hemisphere.
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| The movement of positively charged ions across the membrane of a neuron can produce a(n) | show 🗑
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| Reuptake refers to the | show 🗑
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| A laboratory cat could be made to twitch its whiskers by direct stimulation of the ________ lobes of its cerebral cortex. | show 🗑
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| show | sensing touch; seeing.
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| show | eeg.
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| show | motor cortex.
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| Messages are transmitted from your spinal cord to your digestive system's stomach muscles by the | show 🗑
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| show | children who have had a cerebral hemisphere surgically removed.
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| After Kato's serious motorcycle accident, doctors detected damage to his cerebellum. Kato is most likely to have difficulty | show 🗑
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| show | more neurons to fire, and to fire more often.
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| show | right hand to indicate she saw a mouse.
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| Conscious information processing is LEAST likely to be required for the automatic physical survival functions regulated by the | show 🗑
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| Aaron consistently exhibits a knee-jerk response without having any sensations of the taps on his knees. Aaron's experience is most indicative of a | show 🗑
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| show | positively charged ions are pumped back outside a neural membrane.
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| The motor cortex is responsible for: | show 🗑
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| Broca's and Wernicke's areas are found on the | show 🗑
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| The organization of the nervous system has been influenced by the process of: | show 🗑
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| show | Less heritable than that of the peripheral nervous system.
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| show | dependent variable.
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| show | standard deviation.
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| A psychiatrist is most interested in which of the following? | show 🗑
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| The effect of a lesion in the motor cortex on the ability to move the left hand would be most interesting to a: | show 🗑
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| show | frontal lobe.
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| show | Wernicke's area.
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| An axon is polarized when | show 🗑
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| show | thalamus.
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| People's failure to recognize themselves in a mirror is most likely to be associated with damage to the | show 🗑
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| show | association areas.
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| show | formulate plans.
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| The sympathetic nervous system | show 🗑
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| To identify which specific brain areas are most active during a particular mental task, researchers would be most likely to make use of a(n) | show 🗑
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| The localization of a function such as speech production to the right or left side of the brain is called | show 🗑
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| show | generating new brain cells.
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| show | positively charged ions are pumped back outside a neural membrane.
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| show | myelin sheath.
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| show | seeing; hearing.
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| show | plasticity.
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| show | endocrine system.
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| Jason's intensely uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms following heroin use were probably due in part to a reduction in his body's normal production of | show 🗑
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| The medulla is to the control of ________ as the cerebellum is to the control of ________. | show 🗑
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| show | lowering of blood sugar; raising of blood sugar.
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| If primed with the flashed word foot, the ________ hemisphere will be especially quick to recognize the word heel. If primed with foot, cry, and glass, the ________ hemisphere will be especially quick to recognize the word cut. | show 🗑
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| Babbling requires the use of the: | show 🗑
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| _____, which suppress the experience of pain, are likely to impact activity in the part of the brain linked to the body senses, the ____ lobes. | show 🗑
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| show | genes, almygdala.
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| show | nurture(experience), nature(inheritance)
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| Subjects who have had their corpus callosum cut are compared with people whose corpus is intact to see if there is a difference in the ability to memorize words. The group that they are in (cut or uncut corpus callosum) is the: | show 🗑
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| A study finds that, the more neural activity there is in the cerebral cortex during an event, the more likely is that someone will remember that event. This is an example of: | show 🗑
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| In attempting to learn about the relationship between neural activity and mental health in an effort to develop a cure for mental illness, one would be engaged in: | show 🗑
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| show | biopsychosocial.
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| show | left, write the word "telephone"
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| The part of the cerebral cortex that controls voluntary muscle movements is the | show 🗑
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| show | right; both right and left eyes.
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| show | more; more.
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| show | thalamus.
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| show | neural networks.
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| show | visual perception.
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| To fully appreciate the interaction of neural activity, mental processes, and the functioning of human communities, it is most necessary to recognize that people are | show 🗑
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| show | association areas.
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| Botulin poisoning from improperly canned food causes paralysis by blocking the release of | show 🗑
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| In transmitting sensory information to the brain, an electrical signal travels from the ________ of a single neuron. | show 🗑
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| An amplified recording of the waves of electrical activity that sweep across the surface of the brain is called a(n) | show 🗑
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| Visual information processing in the temporal lobe of Deaf people whose native language is sign best illustrates | show 🗑
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| show | constraint-induced therapy.
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| show | phrenologist.
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| The ability to recognize faces with the right hemisphere but not with the left hemisphere best illustrates | show 🗑
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| The ability to simultaneously copy different figures with the right and left hand is most characteristic of those whose ________ has been cut. | show 🗑
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| Motor neurons are an important part of the | show 🗑
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| Marion Diamond, who seen freezes and slices sections of rat brain cortex, has observed that removing the ________ of newly born rats facilitates the development of ________ hemisphere(s) of their brains. | show 🗑
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| show | sodium; potassium.
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| show | frontal cortex.
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| Suppose that a speech synthesizer could produce specific words when signaled by the brain activation patterns involved when a person merely thinks about these words. This would be an illustration of | show 🗑
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| show | hypothalamus.
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| show | plasticity.
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| Which of the following body parts is associated with the greatest amount of brain tissue in the sensory cortex? | show 🗑
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| One function of glial cells is to | show 🗑
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| show | initiation of neural impulses.
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| show | acetylcholine.
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| show | endorphins.
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| show | depression.
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| Animal research has revealed a general reward system that triggers the release of the neurotransmitter | show 🗑
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| Which part of your brain receives information that you are moving your legs? | show 🗑
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| show | Functional magnetic resonance imaging.
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| Subjects who have had their corpus callosum cut are compared with people whose corpus is intact to see if there is a difference in the ability to memorize words. The ability to memorize words is the: | show 🗑
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| When we say that the sensory cortex is responsible for organizing information from the body, we are using which approach to psychology? | show 🗑
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| show | occipital.
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| show | coordinate balance and movement.
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| show | name unseen objects placed in their right hands but not objects placed in their left hands.
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| show | parietal.
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| A monkey with electrodes implanted in its brain is able to move a computer cursor simply by thinking about the move. This best illustrates the potential value of | show 🗑
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| For you to be able to run, ________ must relay messages from your central nervous system to your leg muscles. | show 🗑
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| show | biopsychosocial systems.
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| show | face.
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| show | heroin usage.
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| Which of the following is the component of the limbic system that plays an essential role in the processing of new memories? | show 🗑
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| show | auditory perception.
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| show | medulla.
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| The best way to detect enlarged fluid-filled brain regions in some patients who have schizophrenia is to use a(n) | show 🗑
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| The inability to recognize familiar faces even though one can clearly see and describe features of the faces is associated with damage to the right ________ lobe. | show 🗑
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| To demonstrate that brain stimulation can make a rat violently aggressive, a neuroscientist should electrically stimulate the rat's | show 🗑
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| José has just played a long, bruising football game but feels little fatigue or discomfort. His lack of pain is most likely caused by the release of | show 🗑
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| You come home one night to find a burglar in your house. Your heart starts racing and you begin to perspire. These physical reactions are triggered by the | show 🗑
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| The temporal lobe is important for | show 🗑
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| Because the organization of the brains of identical twins is more similar than that of fraternal twins, it suggests that: | show 🗑
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| show | With less pituitary hormone, there is less adrenal hormone.
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| show | the frontal lobes.
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| The human nervous system is composed of billions of neurons that communicate | show 🗑
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| An excitatory postsynaptic potential ______ a target neuron, and an inhibitory postsynaptic potential ______ a target neuron. | show 🗑
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| show | negatively; inside.
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| show | the bloodstream.
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| show | plasticity.
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| show | pituitary gland.
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| show | brainstem, limbic system, cerebral cortex.
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| show | cerebral cortex.
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| Compared with right-handers, left-handers are | show 🗑
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| show | epinephrine.
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| In transmitting sensory information to the brain, an electrical signal travels from the ________ of a single neuron. | show 🗑
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| Nature is to nurture as: | show 🗑
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| Subjects in the effects of a drug on neurotransmitter reuptake are given either an inert substance or the drug. If they receive the drug, the subjects are in what would be considered the: | show 🗑
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| A psychologist destroys various parts of the thalamus in an effort to learn what this does to the ability of a rat to learn its way through a maze. This is an example of: | show 🗑
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| A drug that mimics the effects of a particular neurotransmitter or blocks its reuptake is called a(n) | show 🗑
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| The resting potential of an axon results from the fact that an axon membrane is | show 🗑
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| show | left; left.
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| What will most likely happen as a neurosurgeon sedates the entire right cerebral hemisphere of a right-handed patient who is asked to count aloud with both arms extended upward? | show 🗑
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| show | association areas.
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| Neurotransmitter receptor sites are primarily located on the | show 🗑
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| A brain tumor caused extensive damage to Mr. Thorndike's hypothalamus. It is most likely that he may suffer a loss of | show 🗑
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| Endorphins are | show 🗑
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| show | axon.
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| Cognitive insights are likely to result from activity in the: | show 🗑
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| Psychoactive drugs have their primary effect on the: | show 🗑
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| show | plasticity in.
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| show | control group.
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| show | functionalism.
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| The nucleus accumbens is the center of a(n) ________ circuit that is active in both hunger for food and pleasurable stimulation from addictive drugs. | show 🗑
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| Following frontal lobe damage, Joe cannot avoid making unwise gambling decisions. This problem appears most strongly related to his inability to experience | show 🗑
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| show | ACh agonist.
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| An undersupply of the major inhibitory neurotransmitter known as ________ is linked to seizures. | show 🗑
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| show | verbally report that she saw a boy.
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| show | turn their heads.
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| Which part of a neuron is often encased by a fatty myelin sheath? | show 🗑
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| Prozac is an antidepressant drug that increases the level of the neurotransmitter | show 🗑
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| show | electrically charged atoms.
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| show | brainstem.
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| Neural networks refer to | show 🗑
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| The neurons of the central nervous system cluster into work groups known as | show 🗑
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| show | facially portray emotions.
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| If an individual's right cerebral hemisphere is completely destroyed by disease, that person is unable to see anything | show 🗑
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| show | stimulates digestion and slows heartbeat.
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| show | central nervous system.
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| show | reticular formation.
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| show | Relatively plastic, reflecting the effects of experience more than genes.
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| Someone interested in cognitive neuroscience might also be interested in: | show 🗑
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| show | MRI
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| show | axon terminal.
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| show | sleeping cat to awaken.
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| show | parietal
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| show | acetylcholine.
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| show | epileptic seizures.
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| show | thalamus.
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| show | frontal.
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| show | central nervous system.
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| show | basic research.
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| show | functionalism.
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| show | exocytosis.
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| show | resting potential.
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| show | endorphin agonist.
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| show | process language in their left cerebral hemisphere.
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| show | brainstem.
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| If Professor Kosiba lesions the amygdala of a laboratory rat, the rat will most likely become | show 🗑
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| show | neural prosthetics.
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| Testosterone is a _____ that influences the development of external sex organs and _____. | show 🗑
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| show | limbic system.
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| An undersupply of GABA is most closely linked to | show 🗑
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| One explanation for why animals do not use language as we do is that they lack the necessary: | show 🗑
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| The tremors of Parkinson’s disease result from the death of nerve cells that produce the neurotransmitter | show 🗑
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| show | temporal.
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| show | thirst.
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| show | action potential.
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| To identify which of Lucy's brain areas was most active when she talked, neuroscientists gave her a temporarily radioactive form of glucose and a(n) | show 🗑
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| Which brain structure relays information from the eyes to the visual cortex? | show 🗑
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| James Olds and Peter Milner discovered that rats would willingly cross an electrified floor in order to electrically stimulate areas within their | show 🗑
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| show | ACH antagonist.
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| show | hypothalamus.
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| The auditory hallucinations experienced by people with schizophrenia are most closely linked with the activation of areas in their | show 🗑
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| The occipital lobe is important for: | show 🗑
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| show | had more neural connections.
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| Which of the following areas of the human brain contains the greatest amount of brain tissue? | show 🗑
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| show | dopamine.
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| Information travels from the spinal cord to the brain via | show 🗑
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| Increasing excitatory signals above the threshold for neural activation will not affect the intensity of an action potential. This indicates that a neuron's reaction is | show 🗑
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| show | endorphins.
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| Migraine headaches are most closely linked with an | show 🗑
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| Mental set, functional fixedness, the representativeness heuristic and similar processes are likely to reflect activity in the: | show 🗑
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| Dreaming is likely to be associated with activity in which lobe of the cortex? | show 🗑
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| show | controlled by genes.
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| There is a negative correlation between the amount of a hormone released by the pituitary gland and the amount of hormone released by the adrenal gland. This means that: | show 🗑
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| show | mean.
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| As a result of an aneurism that damaged his frontal lobe, Bill, a law school graduate, experiences the greatest difficulty in | show 🗑
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| In the video 'Brain Reorganization: Phantom Limb Sensations', Derek reports sensations in his phantom left hand when stroked on his | show 🗑
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| When Dirk was stung by a bee, the pain message was transmitted to his spinal cord by the ________ nervous system. | show 🗑
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| The part of the peripheral nervous system that controls the movement of your arms when you write is the | show 🗑
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| show | peripheral.
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| show | plasticity.
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| show | reuptake.
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| Direct stimulation of the motor cortex would most likely result in | show 🗑
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| show | amygdala.
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| show | binge eating.
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| Given the relationship between thought and language, and the location of language within the brain, it seems reasonable to conclude that thought results from activity within the: | show 🗑
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