TEST BANK - Neuroscience: Exploring
the Brain, 5th Edition by Mark Bear,
Barry Connors
COMPLETE CHAPTERS 1-25| VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
ALL ANSWERS ARE AT THE END OF EACH
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, Table of Contents
Part 1 Foundations
Chapter 1 Neuroscience: Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 2 Neurons and Glia
Chapter 3 The Neuronal Membrane at Rest
Chapter 4 The Action Potential
Chapter 5 Synaptic Transmission
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
Chapter 9 The Eye
Chapter 10 The Central Visual System
Chapter 11 The Auditory and Vestibular Systems
Chapter 12 The Somatic Sensory System
Chapter 13 Spinal Control of Movement
Chapter 14 Brain Control of Movement
Part 3 The Brain and Behavior
Chapter 15 Chemical Control of the Brain and Behavior
Chapter 16 Motivation
Chapter 17 Sex and the Brain
Chapter 18 Brain Mechanisms of Emotion
Chapter 19 Brain Rhythms and Sleep
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Chapter 20 Language
Chapter 21 The Resting Brain, Attention, and Consciousness
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,Chapter 22 Mental Illness
Part 4 The Changing Brain
Chapter 23 Wiring the Brain
Chapter 24 Memory Systems
Chapter 25 Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory
Chapter 1: Neuroscience: Past, Present, and Future Neuroscience
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 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.
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
B) Localization of brain function in the cerebrum and cerebellum
C) Mind–brain duality
D) Parceling the cerebrum into lobes
3. What is ―mind–brain problem‖? Choose the correct option.
A) Individually, human mental capacities exist in the mind that is outside the brain.
B) The mind is the same as the brain.
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C) Both animals and people possess intellect and a God-given soul.
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.
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.
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.
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.
C) Spinal nerves are not hollow tubes carrying fluid.
D) Both humans and animals have spinal nerves.
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
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
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
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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the Brain, 5th Edition by Mark Bear,
Barry Connors
COMPLETE CHAPTERS 1-25| VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
ALL ANSWERS ARE AT THE END OF EACH
CHAPTER
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Page | 1
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, Table of Contents
Part 1 Foundations
Chapter 1 Neuroscience: Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 2 Neurons and Glia
Chapter 3 The Neuronal Membrane at Rest
Chapter 4 The Action Potential
Chapter 5 Synaptic Transmission
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
Chapter 9 The Eye
Chapter 10 The Central Visual System
Chapter 11 The Auditory and Vestibular Systems
Chapter 12 The Somatic Sensory System
Chapter 13 Spinal Control of Movement
Chapter 14 Brain Control of Movement
Part 3 The Brain and Behavior
Chapter 15 Chemical Control of the Brain and Behavior
Chapter 16 Motivation
Chapter 17 Sex and the Brain
Chapter 18 Brain Mechanisms of Emotion
Chapter 19 Brain Rhythms and Sleep
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Chapter 20 Language
Chapter 21 The Resting Brain, Attention, and Consciousness
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,Chapter 22 Mental Illness
Part 4 The Changing Brain
Chapter 23 Wiring the Brain
Chapter 24 Memory Systems
Chapter 25 Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory
Chapter 1: Neuroscience: Past, Present, and Future Neuroscience
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 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.
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
B) Localization of brain function in the cerebrum and cerebellum
C) Mind–brain duality
D) Parceling the cerebrum into lobes
3. What is ―mind–brain problem‖? Choose the correct option.
A) Individually, human mental capacities exist in the mind that is outside the brain.
B) The mind is the same as the brain.
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C) Both animals and people possess intellect and a God-given soul.
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.
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.
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.
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.
C) Spinal nerves are not hollow tubes carrying fluid.
D) Both humans and animals have spinal nerves.
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
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
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
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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