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TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) Canadian actor Michael J. Fox has been diagnosed with an early on-set case of Alzheimer's disease.
Answer: True False
2) The preliminary symptoms of Parkinson's disease include; tremors, rigidity, and slow movement.
Answer: True False
3) As many as 1 in 10 individuals diagnosed with Parkinson's disease are under the age of 40.
Answer: True False
4) Mirror neurons suggest that the capacity of even young children to imitate others may be an inborn
behaviour.
Answer: True False
5) A neuron's resting state has a negative electrical charge of about 10 millivolts (a millivolt is one
one-thousandth of a volt).
Answer: True False
6) The speed with which an action potential moves down the axon is determined by the axon's size and
the thickness of its myelin sheath.
Answer: True False
7) Neurotransmitters are always consistent in their actions. They perform in an identical manner
regardless of their location in the nervous system.
Answer: True False
8) The longer and thicker the axon the more rapid the impulse.
Answer: True False
9) Neurons are complex structures. Due to the action potential, they may be connected with no more
than one to two hundred other neurons.
Answer: True False
10) The speed with which an action potential moves down the axon is determined by the axon's size and
the thickness of its myelin sheath.
Answer: True False
11) In the nervous system, neurotransmitters are stored in the neuron's dendrites.
Answer: True False
12) Acetylcholine and serotonin are both excitatory neurotransmitters in the central nervous system.
Answer: True False
13) The abilities to regulate or suppress pain and to experience pleasure are influenced by endorphins.
Answer: True False
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14) The fMRI scan also has the potential to treat some psychological disorders.
Answer: True False
15) Thelimbic system contains three primary components: the thalamus, hypothalamus, and
hippocampus.
Answer: True False
16) The limbic system consist of a series of doughnut-shaped structures that are involved in
self-preservation, learning memory, and the experience of pleasure.
Answer: True False
17) Theassociation areas of the brain are closely linked to such higher order mental processes as
thinking, language, memory, and speech.
Answer: True False
18) Research has shown that the central core, or the primitive brain, is very similar in all vertebrates.
Answer: True False
19) Motorneurons carry information from the brain to the muscle groups, and sensory neurons carry
information from the sensory organs to the brain.
Answer: True False
20) Neurons
that connect sensory and motor neurons carrying messages between the two are called
complimentary neurons.
Answer: True False
21) Thestructures of the brain are organized in such a way that older, more primitive parts of the brain
regulate the newer areas of the brain.
Answer: True False
22) The nervous system is divided into three main parts: the spinal cord, the central nervous system and
the peripheral nervous system.
Answer: True False
23) Neurons that connect sensory and motor neurons are called cognitive neurons.
Answer: True False
24) Behavioural genetics holds the promise of developing new diagnostic and treatment techniques for
genetic deficiencies that can lead to physical and psychological difficulties.
Answer: True False
25) The endocrine system is a chemical communication network that sends messages via hormones.
Answer: True False
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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
26) What is the approximate negative electrical charge of a neuron's resting state?
A) 30 millivolts B) 100 millivolts C) 70 millivolts D) 150 millivolts
Answer: B
27) Which of the following best describes a neurotransmitter?
A) A brain disease that results in loss of memory and motor control.
B) The part of the brain that controls speech and language functions.
C) The part of the neuron that receives information from other neurons.
D) A chemical substance that carries information in the nervous system.
Answer: D
28) If a particular behaviour is associated with a small portion of the motor area, then it must be:
A) A large scale behaviour, like waving your arms.
B) A precise behaviour, like threading a needle with your fingers.
C) Unknown-we know very little about how behaviours map onto the motor area.
D) A facial behaviour, like smiling or frowning.
Answer: A
29) What is the synapse?
A) A temporary impairment that causes a memory lapse.
B) The long slender tail that leads away from the neuron's cell body.
C) A gap between an axon's terminal button and another neuron's dendrite.
D) The neural structure that connects the two cerebral hemispheres.
Answer: C
30) Which of the following is NOT a primary region in the sensory area of the cortex?
A) A region related to vision. B) A region related to body sensations.
C) A region related to sexual behaviour. D) A region related to hearing.
Answer: C
31) What happened to railroad worker Phineas Gage, whose case study is presented in the chapter on
biology and behaviour?
A) An explosive accident blasted a spike through his brain.
B) He was born with only half a brain, yet he was able to live a normal life.
C) A surgical accident left him with a permanent memory defect.
D) After a severe fall that injured most of his brain, he received a transplant.
Answer: A
32) Damaged or insufficient myelin sheath would cause which of the following?
A) Rapidnerve impulses. B) Accelerated nerve impulses.
C) Slowed nerve impulses. D) Exaggerated nerve impulses.
Answer: C
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TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) Canadian actor Michael J. Fox has been diagnosed with an early on-set case of Alzheimer's disease.
Answer: True False
2) The preliminary symptoms of Parkinson's disease include; tremors, rigidity, and slow movement.
Answer: True False
3) As many as 1 in 10 individuals diagnosed with Parkinson's disease are under the age of 40.
Answer: True False
4) Mirror neurons suggest that the capacity of even young children to imitate others may be an inborn
behaviour.
Answer: True False
5) A neuron's resting state has a negative electrical charge of about 10 millivolts (a millivolt is one
one-thousandth of a volt).
Answer: True False
6) The speed with which an action potential moves down the axon is determined by the axon's size and
the thickness of its myelin sheath.
Answer: True False
7) Neurotransmitters are always consistent in their actions. They perform in an identical manner
regardless of their location in the nervous system.
Answer: True False
8) The longer and thicker the axon the more rapid the impulse.
Answer: True False
9) Neurons are complex structures. Due to the action potential, they may be connected with no more
than one to two hundred other neurons.
Answer: True False
10) The speed with which an action potential moves down the axon is determined by the axon's size and
the thickness of its myelin sheath.
Answer: True False
11) In the nervous system, neurotransmitters are stored in the neuron's dendrites.
Answer: True False
12) Acetylcholine and serotonin are both excitatory neurotransmitters in the central nervous system.
Answer: True False
13) The abilities to regulate or suppress pain and to experience pleasure are influenced by endorphins.
Answer: True False
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14) The fMRI scan also has the potential to treat some psychological disorders.
Answer: True False
15) Thelimbic system contains three primary components: the thalamus, hypothalamus, and
hippocampus.
Answer: True False
16) The limbic system consist of a series of doughnut-shaped structures that are involved in
self-preservation, learning memory, and the experience of pleasure.
Answer: True False
17) Theassociation areas of the brain are closely linked to such higher order mental processes as
thinking, language, memory, and speech.
Answer: True False
18) Research has shown that the central core, or the primitive brain, is very similar in all vertebrates.
Answer: True False
19) Motorneurons carry information from the brain to the muscle groups, and sensory neurons carry
information from the sensory organs to the brain.
Answer: True False
20) Neurons
that connect sensory and motor neurons carrying messages between the two are called
complimentary neurons.
Answer: True False
21) Thestructures of the brain are organized in such a way that older, more primitive parts of the brain
regulate the newer areas of the brain.
Answer: True False
22) The nervous system is divided into three main parts: the spinal cord, the central nervous system and
the peripheral nervous system.
Answer: True False
23) Neurons that connect sensory and motor neurons are called cognitive neurons.
Answer: True False
24) Behavioural genetics holds the promise of developing new diagnostic and treatment techniques for
genetic deficiencies that can lead to physical and psychological difficulties.
Answer: True False
25) The endocrine system is a chemical communication network that sends messages via hormones.
Answer: True False
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Edition Feldman
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
26) What is the approximate negative electrical charge of a neuron's resting state?
A) 30 millivolts B) 100 millivolts C) 70 millivolts D) 150 millivolts
Answer: B
27) Which of the following best describes a neurotransmitter?
A) A brain disease that results in loss of memory and motor control.
B) The part of the brain that controls speech and language functions.
C) The part of the neuron that receives information from other neurons.
D) A chemical substance that carries information in the nervous system.
Answer: D
28) If a particular behaviour is associated with a small portion of the motor area, then it must be:
A) A large scale behaviour, like waving your arms.
B) A precise behaviour, like threading a needle with your fingers.
C) Unknown-we know very little about how behaviours map onto the motor area.
D) A facial behaviour, like smiling or frowning.
Answer: A
29) What is the synapse?
A) A temporary impairment that causes a memory lapse.
B) The long slender tail that leads away from the neuron's cell body.
C) A gap between an axon's terminal button and another neuron's dendrite.
D) The neural structure that connects the two cerebral hemispheres.
Answer: C
30) Which of the following is NOT a primary region in the sensory area of the cortex?
A) A region related to vision. B) A region related to body sensations.
C) A region related to sexual behaviour. D) A region related to hearing.
Answer: C
31) What happened to railroad worker Phineas Gage, whose case study is presented in the chapter on
biology and behaviour?
A) An explosive accident blasted a spike through his brain.
B) He was born with only half a brain, yet he was able to live a normal life.
C) A surgical accident left him with a permanent memory defect.
D) After a severe fall that injured most of his brain, he received a transplant.
Answer: A
32) Damaged or insufficient myelin sheath would cause which of the following?
A) Rapidnerve impulses. B) Accelerated nerve impulses.
C) Slowed nerve impulses. D) Exaggerated nerve impulses.
Answer: C
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