Brain & Behavior bundled Exams with correct answers 2024

Which of the following is NOT one of the taste receptors? correct answers Spicy ________ are biochemicals that can act as a chemosignal to affect the physiology or behavior of another animal. correct answers Pheromones One reason we engage in behavior is to stimulate the brain. correct answ...

Registration of physical stimuli from the environment by the _____ _____ correct answers Sensation, sensory organs Subjective interpretation of sensations by the _____. Allows for illusions correct answers Perception, brain proposed by Johannes _____, the nature of perception is defined by t...

A lion and a tiger mated and produced an offspring called a liger. This indicates that lions and tigers must be the same: correct answers species Celeste has damage to her central nervous system. This means that either her _____ or her _____ (or both) are damaged. correct answers brain; spinal ...

Wernicke's area is located in the: correct answers posterior temporal lobe Pure tones are sounds: correct answers with a single frequency Frequency of sound waves roughly corresponds to our perception of: correct answers Pitch The part of the sensory world that stimulates a neuron is ca...

What is responsible for the lack of photoreceptors at the optic disc and consequent blind spot? correct answers It is the location where blood vessels and ganglion cell axons leave the eye. Amblyopia is best treated with correct answers surgical correction and an eye patch Which statement re...

nervous system is made up of correct answers central nervous system and peripheral nervous system central nervous system is what correct answers brain and spinal cord peripheral nervous system is what correct answers everything else peripheral nervous system is made up of correct answer...

natural selection (Ch 1) correct answers A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits. Encephalization Quotient (EQ) (Ch 1) correct answers Measure of brain size obtained from the r...

What is the difference between sensation and perception? Where does each occur? correct answers Sensation is the registration of physical stimuli from the environment by the sensory organs. Perception is subjective interpretation of sensations by the brain and allows for illusions. What is the l...

"mind-brain" problem correct answers biological explanations of behavior raise issue of the relationship between mental activity and the brain ("mental" vs. "physical" brain) Biological psychology correct answers the study of the physiological, evolutionary and developmental mechanisms o...

In which of the following ways are dendrites and axons similar? correct answers Both exhibit branching. The ridges of tissue on the convoluted surface of the cortex are called correct answers gyri Which of the following represents the most common sequence of information flow through a neuron...

Neuroscience correct answers The scientific study of the nervous system. - Divided into sub disciplines. Philosophers correct answers The first scholars to study the relationships between brain and behaviour. - Established the scientific method as our best tool for finding new knowledge...

What is mechanical sensory processing? correct answers Touch, hearing, vestibular, joint, muscle What is photic sensory processing? correct answers Vision What is thermal sensory processing? correct answers Cold, warmth What is chemical sensory processing? correct answers Smell, taste, ...

dorsal correct answers back ventral correct answers belly side lateral correct answers away from the midline proximal correct answers Closer to the point of attachment Ipsilateral correct answers on the same side of the body Contralateral correct answers on the opposite side of ...

adequate stimulus correct answers the energy form for which a receptor is specialized agraphia correct answers the inability to write due to brain damage alexia correct answers the inability to read due to brain damage amplitude correct answers the physical energy in a sound; the sound...

what is biopsychology and the goals of it correct answers denotes a biological approach to the field of psychology, want to understand behavior in terms of what is going on in the body (examine body's command center) define neuroscience correct answers scientific study of the nervous system ...

Patterns in time can be made up of : -thinking -movements -neither movements nor thinking -both movements and thinking correct answers The notion that the movements we make and the movements we perceive in others are central to communication with another theory: -abstract language -embodi...

What is the mind-body problem? correct answers the issue of the relationship between mental activity and the brain raised by biological explanations of behavior (this can ask "how do physical properties like nerve impulses or sodium and potassium transform into behavior?") dualism correct ans...

whole-animal manipulations correct answers Determine how an environmental condition affects brain and behaviors EX: Diet, exercise, sensory stimulation, drug usage, social interactions Brain Lesions correct answers Remove or destroy neural tissue to observe behavioral changes EX: Knife cu...

What is Neuroscience? correct answers the study of anything that relates to the nervous system What is Biopsychology? correct answers the study of the relationship between the brain and behavior How are Neuroscience and Biopsychology related? correct answers they both study the biology of t...

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) correct answers wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head Why study brain and behavior correct answers How the brain produces both behavior and human consciousness are major unanswered scientific questions.• The brain, the most complex living organ o...

All of the following are ways in which a neurotransmitter is quickly removed from receptor sites and from the synaptic cleft, EXCEPT: correct answers exocytosis Changes in activity in this activating system are related to symptoms observed in obsessive-compulsive disorder. correct answers serot...