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Test Bank For Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, Enhanced Edition 4th Edition By Mark Bear; Barry Connors; Michael A. Paradiso 9781284211283 Chapter 1-25 Complete Guide.
Test Bank For Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, Enhanced Edition 4th Edition By Mark Bear; Barry Connors; Michael A. Paradiso 9781284211283 Chapter 1-25 Complete Guide.
, Test Bank For Neuroscience: Exploring The Brain, 4th Edition
Table of Contents:
Part 1 Foundations
Chapter 1 Neuroscience: Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 2 Neurons and Glia
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Chapter 3 The Neuronal Membrane at Rest
Chapter 4 The Action Potential
Chapter 5 Synaptic Transmission
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Chapter 6 Neurotransmitter Systems
Chapter 7 The Structure of the Nervous System
Appendix An Illustrated Guide to Human Neuroanatomy
Part 2 Sensory and Motor Systems
Chapter 8 The Chemical Senses
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Chapter 9 The Eye
Chapter 10 The Central Visual System
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Chapter 11 The Auditory and Vestibular Systems
Chapter 12 The Somatic Sensory System
Chapter 13 Spinal Control of Movement
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Chapter 14 Brain Control of Movement
Part 3 The Brain and Behavior
Chapter 15 Chemical Control of the Brain and Behavior
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Chapter 16 Motivation
Chapter 17 Sex and the Brain
Chapter 18 Brain Mechanisms of Emotion
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Chapter 19 Brain Rhythms and Sleep
Chapter 20 Language
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Chapter 21 The Resting Brain, Attention, and Consciousness
Chapter 22 Mental Illness
Part 4 The Changing Brain
Chapter 23 Wiring the Brain
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Chapter 24 Memory Systems
Chapter 25 Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory
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, Chapter 1: Neuroscience: Past, Present, and Future
Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, 4th Edition Bear Test Bank
1. Why are a broad perspective and an interdisciplinary approach required for
understanding the brain? Choose the correct option.
A) Understanding the brain is a focused area in natural science with the brain serving
as the common point of focus.
B) Understanding the brain requires knowledge about many things, from the structure
M
of the water molecule to the electrical and chemical properties of the brain.
C) Understanding the brain requires the study of the different species of the brain.
D) Understanding the brain requires the analysis of one approach at a time to yield a
new synthesis.
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2. Galen's study of sheep brains was the basis for a theory of brain function that prevailed
for almost 1500 years. Which of the following represents this view? Choose the correct
option.
A) The heart as the center of intellect and the brain as the cooling system
C
B) Localization of brain function in the cerebrum and cerebellum
C) Mind–brain duality
D) Parceling the cerebrum into lobes
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3. What is “mind–brain problem”? Choose the correct option.
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A) Individually, human mental capacities exist in the mind that is outside the brain.
B) The mind is the same as the brain.
C) Both animals and people possess intellect and a God-given soul.
N
D) The pineal gland is a spiritual entity.
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4. What notion was displaced by the concept of nerves being described as wires? Choose
the correct option.
A) Nerves are channels that communicate with the brain by the movement of fluids.
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B) Muscles can be twitched when nerves are stimulated electrically and the brain itself
may generate electricity.
C) Signals to the muscles causing movement use the same wires as those that register
sensations from the skin.
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D) Nerves conduct electrical signals to and from the brain.
5. The combined work of Bell and Magendie revealed a fundamental fact about the spinal
nerves. Choose the correct option.
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A) Spinal nerves are myelinated.
B) Spinal nerves are bundles of sensory and motor nerves, and in each sensory and
motor nerve fiber, transmission is strictly one-way.
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C) Spinal nerves are not hollow tubes carrying fluid.
D) Both humans and animals have spinal nerves.
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, 6. For what purpose did Franz Joseph Gall study the dimensions of the human head?
Choose the correct option.
A) To understand the propensity for certain personality traits
B) To demonstrate equal participation of all regions of the brain in all cerebral
functions
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C) To show that nerves conduct electrical signals to and from the brain
D) To show that unique human mental capabilities exist outside the brain
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7. On what basis did Broca defend functional localization of the brain? Choose the correct
option.
A) By establishing a relationship between the production of speech and the right
frontal lobe
B) By establishing a relationship between the production of speech and the occipital
lobe
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C) By establishing a relationship between the production of speech and the left frontal
lobe
D) By establishing a relationship between the production of speech and the cerebellum
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8. To whom can we attribute the theory that behavior is among the heritable traits that can
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develop? Choose the correct option.
A) Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens
B) Charles Darwin
N
C) Gustav Fritsch and Edward Hitzig
D) Franz Joseph Gall
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9. Which of the following is a correct explanation of a disorder that affects the nervous
system? Choose the correct option.
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A) Cerebral palsy is a motor disorder caused by damage to the cerebrum before,
during, or soon after birth.
B) Epilepsy is a progressive disease that affects nerve conduction, characterized by
episodes of weakness, lack of coordination, and speech disturbance.
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C) Stroke involves a loss of feeling and movement caused by traumatic damage to the
spinal cord.
D) Alzheimer's disease is a severe psychotic illness characterized by delusions,
hallucinations, and bizarre behavior.
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