PSYC 342: Hormones and Behaviour Questions with
Correct Answers
Nocebo effect Correct Answer ✓✓ adverse reaction experienced by a
patient who receives therapy, symptoms decline
Efferent vs. afferent nerves Correct Answer ✓✓ efferent: central
nervous system to peripheral
afferent: peripheral to central
Somatic nervous system Correct Answer ✓✓ motor neurons and
skeletal muscle
Autonomic nervous system Correct Answer ✓✓ sympathetic and
parasympathetic
Part of what autonomic system are the exocrine glands? Correct Answer
✓✓ parasympathetic autonomic nervous sysem
Enteric system Correct Answer ✓✓ digestive organs, regulates itself,
doesn't feedback to the spinal cord or brain, no afferents
Where do we have the majority of white matter? Correct Answer ✓✓ in
our brain because all the information is converging htere
Forebrain Correct Answer ✓✓ telencephalon and diencephalon
,midbrain Correct Answer ✓✓ tectum and tegmentum
hindbrain Correct Answer ✓✓ cerebellum
medulla
pons
meninges Correct Answer ✓✓ dura mater, pia mater, arachnoid
membrane
What nutrient is the CSF high in? Correct Answer ✓✓ sodium
Which glial cells surround the blood-brain barrier? Correct Answer ✓✓
astrocytes, they repair anything, trap waste, and receive nutrents in
optimal portions
What space in your brain does not have a blood-brain barrier? Why?
Correct Answer ✓✓ the circumventricular space, this is where we
receive or produce hormones
Area postrema Correct Answer ✓✓ senses toxins, vomiting reflex,
important for food poisoning and alcohol intoxication
Name the glial cells Correct Answer ✓✓ astrocytes
oligodendrocytes
,-myelin
microglia
-absorbing pathogens
-regulate different molecules around neurons
-allowing optional environments for the neurons
Where can we find unipolar neurons? Correct Answer ✓✓ near the
spinal cord
What is in the extracellular fluid (think ions)? Correct Answer ✓✓
sodium and little potassium
What is int he intracellular fluid (think ions)? Correct Answer ✓✓ lots
of potassium and very little sodium as well as anions
retrograde regulation of neurotransmitters is accomplished by what?
Correct Answer ✓✓ a gas, growth factor, GDNF, or peptides
What important gland is in the diencephalon? Correct Answer ✓✓
thalamus
Limbic system anatomy Correct Answer ✓✓ hippocampus,
parahippocampal gyrus, septal area, cingulate gyrus, amygdala
, How is the endocrine system different/similar to the nervous system?
Correct Answer ✓✓ similarities
-feedback loops
-regulate physiological activities to maintain homeostasis
-chemical feedback messengers
-response to stimuli
Differences
-signals travel along neurons
-fast acting electrical signals
-short-acting changes
Exocrine vs. endocrine glands Correct Answer ✓✓ exocrine: glands that
release their secretions via ducts, released outside of the organism
ex. sweat glands, salivary glands
endocrine: direct release into the bloodstream
-secrete hormones
What do exocrine glands release? Correct Answer ✓✓ pheromones
Where are neurohormones synthesized and released? Correct Answer
✓✓ synthesized by the neuron and released by the hypothalamus
Where is estrogen synthesized? Correct Answer ✓✓ in fat cells
Correct Answers
Nocebo effect Correct Answer ✓✓ adverse reaction experienced by a
patient who receives therapy, symptoms decline
Efferent vs. afferent nerves Correct Answer ✓✓ efferent: central
nervous system to peripheral
afferent: peripheral to central
Somatic nervous system Correct Answer ✓✓ motor neurons and
skeletal muscle
Autonomic nervous system Correct Answer ✓✓ sympathetic and
parasympathetic
Part of what autonomic system are the exocrine glands? Correct Answer
✓✓ parasympathetic autonomic nervous sysem
Enteric system Correct Answer ✓✓ digestive organs, regulates itself,
doesn't feedback to the spinal cord or brain, no afferents
Where do we have the majority of white matter? Correct Answer ✓✓ in
our brain because all the information is converging htere
Forebrain Correct Answer ✓✓ telencephalon and diencephalon
,midbrain Correct Answer ✓✓ tectum and tegmentum
hindbrain Correct Answer ✓✓ cerebellum
medulla
pons
meninges Correct Answer ✓✓ dura mater, pia mater, arachnoid
membrane
What nutrient is the CSF high in? Correct Answer ✓✓ sodium
Which glial cells surround the blood-brain barrier? Correct Answer ✓✓
astrocytes, they repair anything, trap waste, and receive nutrents in
optimal portions
What space in your brain does not have a blood-brain barrier? Why?
Correct Answer ✓✓ the circumventricular space, this is where we
receive or produce hormones
Area postrema Correct Answer ✓✓ senses toxins, vomiting reflex,
important for food poisoning and alcohol intoxication
Name the glial cells Correct Answer ✓✓ astrocytes
oligodendrocytes
,-myelin
microglia
-absorbing pathogens
-regulate different molecules around neurons
-allowing optional environments for the neurons
Where can we find unipolar neurons? Correct Answer ✓✓ near the
spinal cord
What is in the extracellular fluid (think ions)? Correct Answer ✓✓
sodium and little potassium
What is int he intracellular fluid (think ions)? Correct Answer ✓✓ lots
of potassium and very little sodium as well as anions
retrograde regulation of neurotransmitters is accomplished by what?
Correct Answer ✓✓ a gas, growth factor, GDNF, or peptides
What important gland is in the diencephalon? Correct Answer ✓✓
thalamus
Limbic system anatomy Correct Answer ✓✓ hippocampus,
parahippocampal gyrus, septal area, cingulate gyrus, amygdala
, How is the endocrine system different/similar to the nervous system?
Correct Answer ✓✓ similarities
-feedback loops
-regulate physiological activities to maintain homeostasis
-chemical feedback messengers
-response to stimuli
Differences
-signals travel along neurons
-fast acting electrical signals
-short-acting changes
Exocrine vs. endocrine glands Correct Answer ✓✓ exocrine: glands that
release their secretions via ducts, released outside of the organism
ex. sweat glands, salivary glands
endocrine: direct release into the bloodstream
-secrete hormones
What do exocrine glands release? Correct Answer ✓✓ pheromones
Where are neurohormones synthesized and released? Correct Answer
✓✓ synthesized by the neuron and released by the hypothalamus
Where is estrogen synthesized? Correct Answer ✓✓ in fat cells
