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Addiction is not - correct answers Experimental drug use Recreation (casual) use Circumstantial use Addiction is - correct answers A behavioural patters of drug use, characterized by the overwhelming involvement with the use of a drug (compulsive use), the securing of its supply, and a high tendency to relapse after withdrawal Addiction is caused by - correct answers Repeated exposure to a substance A change in the brain What are the three theories of drug addiction? - correct answer...

four principles of neuroscience - correct answers 1) social processes involve the brain (Phineas Gage, "Tan", Bernito) 2) neuroscience should not be in search of centers (mirror neurons, Aphasia: selective loss of language from a cerebral lesion, language comprehension) 3) lit up regions do not necessarily mark the underlying neural substrate involved 4) psychological significance of brain activation patterns non-additive determinism - correct answers neural and social variables all...

neurons - correct answers cells that receive and transmit electrochemical signals neuroscience - correct answers the scientific study of the nervous system thinking creatively - correct answers thinking in productive, unconventional ways, "outside of the box" clinical implications - correct answers pertaining to illness or treatment, whether it be in a diseased or a damaged brain. evolutionary perspective - correct answers Adaptive organisms survive and transmit their genes to ...

neuron - correct answers cells that transmit information within the nervous system glial cells - correct answers cells in the nervous system that comprise the support system for the neurons, supportive cells of nervous system that guide growth of new neurons; forms myelin sheath; holds neuron in place; provides nourishment and removes waste dendrites - correct answers fibers projecting out of the cell body of a neuron whose function is to receive information from other neurons cell body...

* The purpose of this chapter is to introduce some of the basic physiological principles of cognitive neuroscience - the study of the _____________ basis of cognition. - correct answers Physiological * ______________ refers to the idea that a topic can be studied in a number of different ways, with each approach contributing its own dimension to our understanding. ... To fully understand any phenomenon, whether it is how a car operates or how people remember past experiences, it needs to be s...

The myelin wrapped around an axon serves - - correct answers to increase the efficiency of transmission of the neuron The ____ receive information. - correct answers dendrites the ____ transmit information. - correct answers axons An EEG measures - - correct answers the electrical activity of certain brain areas. What was one of the first neuroimaging techniques developed? - correct answers Computerized axial tomography Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke provided some of the earliest ev...

Olfactory bulb - correct answers The lateral surface of the brain. Gross features. 1 Cerebrum - correct answers The lateral surface of the brain. Gross features. 2 Cerebellum - correct answers The lateral surface of the brain. Gross features. 3 Brain stem - correct answers The lateral surface of the brain. Gross features. 4 Lateral (Sylvian) fissure - correct answers The lateral surface of the brain. Selected gyri, sulci and fissures. 5 Precentral gyrus - correct answers...

The next time you see someone at a party who is having trouble walking properly, you might say, "He has had too much to drink, and it went right to his _____." - correct answers cerebellum If an injury caused the removal of a person's right parietal lobe, they would be unable to _____. - correct answers feel sensations from the left side of the body This part of the limbic system helps regulate emotions such as fear and aggression. - correct answers amygdala A main function of ...

confirmation bias - correct answers A student is writing an article on whether more men or more women are likely to graduate from high school. They believe that more men graduate from high school than women, and has found evidence that they are right on their favorite news sites. This is an example of looks for evidence that would refute their own hypotheses. - correct answers Karl Popper emphasizes the idea of falsification over confirmation of an idea. By Popper's standards, a true scien...

What kinds of issues do Behavioural Neuroscientists address, and how do their studies of normal and pathological behaviours relate to each other? - correct answers Study physiological, evolutionary, & developmental mechanism of behavior & experience; while focusing on the functioning of nervous system & reciprocal interactions w/body to control behavior. Understanding normal behaviors can lead to the discovery of reasons behind pathological behaviors. For example, the study of normal behaviors a...