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An Introduction to Biological Psychology 5th
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Ch 01 What is Behavioral Neuroscience?
1. Biological psychology can be defined as the branch of psychology that studies the biological foundations of behavior,
emotions, and mental processes.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
2. Santiago Ramón y Cajal is best known for demonstrating that neurons generate electrical signals.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
3. The pathways of the brain can be studied using either myelin stains or horseradish peroxidase.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
4. Questions about the activity of the brain can be investigated using positron emission tomography (PET) and functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
5. Electroencephalograms (EEGs) were first developed and used by Raymond Damadian in Germany in 1924.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
6. Repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can be used to help treat those who suffer from auditory
hallucinations associated with schizophrenia.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
7. Microdialysis can be used to assess the chemicals present in a very small area of the brain.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
8. If the concordance rate for a psychological disorder is 60 percent, this means that genetics determine 60 percent of a
person’s risk and the environment contributes the other 40 percent.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
9. Stimulation of the brain using optogenetics is more precise than stimulation through surgically implanted electrodes.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
10. Federal guidelines for using human participants in research apply to all organizations and individuals receiving federal
funding.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
11. The fields of behavioral neuroscience and biological psychology
a. are unrelated to one another.
b. focus on different areas of the brain.
c. differ in the complexity of their respective levels of investigation.
d. are two different names for the same area of study.
ANSWER: d
12. Students planning to become mental health practitioners should learn about the biological basis of brain function so
they will be able to
a. relate every psychological disorder to its source in the nervous system.
b. cope with major health and well-being challenges facing contemporary global populations.
c. prescribe appropriate medications for all clients.
d. understand all of neuroscience as a foundation for understanding clients.
ANSWER: b
13. You are a licensed clinical counselor. A 35-year-old woman comes to you who has always been very optimistic and
cheerful but suddenly is extremely depressed. There has been no change in her life circumstances, and she is aware of
nothing that could be causing this depression. Given what you have learned so far, what is the first thing you might
suggest to her?
a. She should see her doctor and perhaps even a neurologist to rule out any underlying physical problem.
b. She probably has some deep underlying resentment of her parents that she needs to recognize before she can
get better.
c. The whole family should come in for therapy, as there is obviously something going on that is not obvious.
d. She should see a psychiatrist and get medication for the depression first and foremost; then talk therapy will
probably help her.
ANSWER: a
14. Trepanation is a(n)
a. ancient practice of drilling holes in a person’s skull.
b. type of mummification.
c. postmortem ritual.
d. technique involving the analysis of the bumps on the skull.
ANSWER: a
15. Scholars from what fourth century BCE civilization were the first to identify the brain as the source of sensation?
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a. the Egyptians
b. the Greeks
c. the Romans
d. the Chinese
ANSWER: b
16. The process of trepanation
a. always killed the patient.
b. may have been done to release demons or relieve pressure.
c. appears to have been performed after a person died.
d. was first used during the sixteenth century in Europe.
ANSWER: b
17. The Egyptian author of the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus understood that
a. paralysis and lack of sensation in the body resulted from nervous system damage.
b. the brain is the source of every documented type of intelligence.
c. functions can be localized in the brain and the spinal cord, both of which comprise the central nervous system.
d. the brain is made up of trillions of separate cells.
ANSWER: a
18. The Egyptian author of the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus understood that
a. the ventricles are not the source of behavior.
b. epilepsy is a brain disturbance.
c. most nervous system damage is relatively permanent.
d. information about sensation and movement is carried by separate nerves.
ANSWER: c
19. Which of the following provide(s) evidence for early, accurate understanding of the function of the human brain?
a. phrenology
b. Egyptian mummification
c. the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus and the writings of Hippocrates
d. trepanation and the writings of Aristotle
ANSWER: c
20. Who correctly identified epilepsy as originating in the brain?
a. Galen
b. Aristotle
c. Herophilus
d. Hippocrates
ANSWER: d
21. Which of the following thinkers believed that the ventricles played an important role in transmitting information to
and from the brain?
a. Aristotle
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b. Galen
c. Magendie
d. Herophilus
ANSWER: b
22. What mistaken notion about the nervous system persisted from ancient times up through the work of some
Renaissance thinkers?
a. The ventricles play a major role in the transmission of messages in the brain.
b. The heart is the organ of intellect.
c. Damage to the brain is easily repaired.
d. The muscular tremors that characterize epilepsy do not originate in the brain.
ANSWER: a
23. Monism is the philosophical view that considers
a. the mind to be the product of activity in the brain.
b. mind and body to be separate entities.
c. the senses to be the source of knowledge.
d. reality to exist when it enters the thoughts of an observer.
ANSWER: a
24. Which one of the following conclusions regarding animal experimentation was implied by Rene Descartes’s theory of
mind–body dualism?
a. Much could be learned from animal experimentation, as both humans and animals had minds.
b. Animal experimentation was acceptable, as only humans possessed “minds.”
c. Animal experimentation had to be avoided out of respect for the animal “mind.”
d. Ethical guidelines for the use of animals in research were necessary because of the recognition of animal
“minds.”
ANSWER: b
25. Rene Descartes was a dualist, believing the mind and body are separate entities. Which of the following statements
reflects this belief?
a. The mind is the product of neural activity.
b. The mind exists in both human and nonhuman animals.
c. The mind forms an indivisible whole with the body.
d. The mind is not a physical entity that can be studied.
ANSWER: d
26. Descartes’s mind–body dualism is defined as the philosophical view that assumes
a. the mind gives rise to neural activity.
b. mind and body are separate entities.
c. reality exists only when perceived by an observer.
d. the five senses are the source of all knowledge.
ANSWER: b
27. Your roommate’s personality has changed a great deal since an accident injured her prefrontal cortex. This fact
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supports what view of the mind–body connection?
a. phrenologistic
b. monistic
c. socialization
d. dualistic
ANSWER: b
28. Anton van Leeuwenhoek advanced brain science by
a. demonstrating that neurons communicate via electricity.
b. demonstrating that sensory and motor information travel along separate pathways.
c. inventing the light microscope.
d. proposing the Neuron Doctrine.
ANSWER: c
29. Who demonstrated that communication in the nervous system is electrical?
a. Descartes
b. Galvani and du Bois-Reymond
c. Golgi and Cajal
d. van Leeuwenhoek
ANSWER: b
30. The Neuron Doctrine asserts that
a. neurons use electricity to communicate.
b. language is localized to the left hemisphere.
c. separate pathways are used for processing sensory and motor information.
d. the nervous system is a collection of separate cells.
ANSWER: d
31. The Neuron Doctrine was proposed by
a. Descartes.
b. Bell and Magendie.
c. Camillo Golgi.
d. Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
ANSWER: d
32. In 1906, Italian researcher Camillo Golgi and Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal shared a Nobel prize
for their work on the human nervous system. Which of the following statements about their work is true?
a. They did their research separately but came to the same conclusion.
b. They had opposing views on the structure of the nervous system.
c. They did their research together but came to different conclusions.
d. They each resented having to share the Nobel prize with someone else.
ANSWER: b
33. We know today that Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s Neuron Doctrine is accurate, but what theory competed with the
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Neuron Doctrine as recently as the early 1900s?
a. the Bell–Magendie law
b. Camillo Golgi’s view of the nervous system as an interconnected network
c. Luigi Galvani’s proposal that nerves communicate using electricity
d. phrenology
ANSWER: b
34. Gall and Spurzheim, who proposed phrenology theory, eventually realized they were wrong and proposed a
more modern theory. What theory replaced phrenology for these two researchers?
a. The brain is the organ of the mind.
b. The mind is the organ of the brain.
c. The mind and the brain are organs of each other.
d. The mind and the brain are unrelated and exist independently of one another.
ANSWER: a
35. Gall and Spurzheim were responsible for
a. the Neuron Doctrine.
b. establishing the electrical nature of neural communication.
c. demonstrating that sensory and motor information use separate pathways.
d. proposing the “science” of phrenology.
ANSWER: d
36. Although phrenology is mostly wrong, what did phrenologists get right about the nervous system?
a. The ventricles play a major role in the transmission of messages in the brain.
b. Sensation and movement have separate pathways.
c. Neurons communicate using electrical signals.
d. Some functions can be localized in the brain.
ANSWER: d
37. You feel a mosquito on your thigh faster than you feel one on the bottom of your foot. Why?
a. You are instinctively more protective of your thigh than of the bottom of your foot.
b. You can see your thigh but not the bottom of your foot.
c. The signal from your foot has to travel further to reach the brain.
d. Your thigh is more sensitive than the bottom of your foot.
ANSWER: c
38. The localization of language functions in the brain was observed by
a. Paul Broca.
b. Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
c. Fritsch and Hitzig.
d. Camillo Golgi.
ANSWER: a
39. Experiments in which the cortices of rabbits and dogs were stimulated electrically demonstrated that
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a. cortical inhibition can cause an individual to initiate a fight.
b. the nervous system has a hierarchical organization.
c. each side of the brain controls the opposite side of the body.
d. rabbits and dogs have minds.
ANSWER: c
40. The work of which researcher(s) provided further evidence for the localization of some functions in the brain?
a. LeDoux
b. Descartes
c. Fritsch and Hitzig
d. Bell and Magendie
ANSWER: c
41. Dr. Jones argues that higher levels of the brain inhibit aggressive impulses originating in lower levels of the brain. It is
likely that her thinking has been influenced by the work of
a. Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
b. John Hughlings Jackson.
c. Franz Josef Gall.
d. Luigi Galvani.
ANSWER: b
42. John Hughlings Jackson is best known for
a. demonstrating the localization of language in the brain.
b. the Neuron Doctrine.
c. mind–body dualism.
d. viewing the nervous system as a hierarchy.
ANSWER: d
43. Charles Sherrington coined the term synapse, which refers to
a. the separation of brain and mind.
b. localization of activity within the brain.
c. the hierarchical construction of the nervous system.
d. the point of communication between two neurons.
ANSWER: a
44. “Fixing” brain tissue to be viewed refers to
a. slicing tissue into thin slices.
b. preserving the tissue by freezing or by the use of formalin.
c. mounting tissue on slides.
d. deciding which tissue to observe.
ANSWER: b
45. The existence of chemical signaling at the synapse was first demonstrated by
a. Charles Sherrington.
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b. Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
c. John Hughlings Jackson.
d. Otto Loewi.
ANSWER: d
46. Your physician tells you that a medical procedure you need is non-invasive. What does that term tell you about the
procedure?
a. It could be fatal.
b. It will do significant harm to your body.
c. It will do minimal harm to your body.
d. It will do no harm to your body.
ANSWER: d
47. The modern technique of electron microscopy can display images at between 1 and 100 nanometers. A
nanometer is one billionth of a meter. That means these methods are about how many times more powerful than
the naked eye?
a. one hundred
b. one thousand
c. one million
d. ten million
ANSWER: c
48. If you want to observe a small number of cells in detail, it would be best to use the
a. Golgi silver stain.
b. Nissl stain.
c. myelin stain.
d. horseradish peroxidase stain.
ANSWER: a
49. If you want to identify clusters of cell bodies in a sample of tissue, it would be best to use the
a. Golgi silver stain.
b. Nissl stain.
c. myelin stain.
d. horseradish peroxidase stain.
ANSWER: b
50. To follow the pathways carrying information from one part of the brain to another, it would be best to use the
a. Golgi silver stain.
b. Nissl stain.
c. myelin stain.
d. antibody stain.
ANSWER: c
51. In the process known as immunohistochemistry, particular proteins in cells can be identified using
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Edition by Laura A. Freberg
Notes
1- The file is chapter after chapter.
2- We have shown you 10 pages.
3- The file contains all Appendix and Excel
sheet if it exists.
4- We have all what you need, we make
update at every time. There are many new
editions waiting you.
5- If you think you purchased the wrong file
You can contact us at every time, we can
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,Name: Class: Date:
Ch 01 What is Behavioral Neuroscience?
1. Biological psychology can be defined as the branch of psychology that studies the biological foundations of behavior,
emotions, and mental processes.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
2. Santiago Ramón y Cajal is best known for demonstrating that neurons generate electrical signals.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
3. The pathways of the brain can be studied using either myelin stains or horseradish peroxidase.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
4. Questions about the activity of the brain can be investigated using positron emission tomography (PET) and functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
5. Electroencephalograms (EEGs) were first developed and used by Raymond Damadian in Germany in 1924.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
6. Repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can be used to help treat those who suffer from auditory
hallucinations associated with schizophrenia.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
7. Microdialysis can be used to assess the chemicals present in a very small area of the brain.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
8. If the concordance rate for a psychological disorder is 60 percent, this means that genetics determine 60 percent of a
person’s risk and the environment contributes the other 40 percent.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
9. Stimulation of the brain using optogenetics is more precise than stimulation through surgically implanted electrodes.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
10. Federal guidelines for using human participants in research apply to all organizations and individuals receiving federal
funding.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
11. The fields of behavioral neuroscience and biological psychology
a. are unrelated to one another.
b. focus on different areas of the brain.
c. differ in the complexity of their respective levels of investigation.
d. are two different names for the same area of study.
ANSWER: d
12. Students planning to become mental health practitioners should learn about the biological basis of brain function so
they will be able to
a. relate every psychological disorder to its source in the nervous system.
b. cope with major health and well-being challenges facing contemporary global populations.
c. prescribe appropriate medications for all clients.
d. understand all of neuroscience as a foundation for understanding clients.
ANSWER: b
13. You are a licensed clinical counselor. A 35-year-old woman comes to you who has always been very optimistic and
cheerful but suddenly is extremely depressed. There has been no change in her life circumstances, and she is aware of
nothing that could be causing this depression. Given what you have learned so far, what is the first thing you might
suggest to her?
a. She should see her doctor and perhaps even a neurologist to rule out any underlying physical problem.
b. She probably has some deep underlying resentment of her parents that she needs to recognize before she can
get better.
c. The whole family should come in for therapy, as there is obviously something going on that is not obvious.
d. She should see a psychiatrist and get medication for the depression first and foremost; then talk therapy will
probably help her.
ANSWER: a
14. Trepanation is a(n)
a. ancient practice of drilling holes in a person’s skull.
b. type of mummification.
c. postmortem ritual.
d. technique involving the analysis of the bumps on the skull.
ANSWER: a
15. Scholars from what fourth century BCE civilization were the first to identify the brain as the source of sensation?
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a. the Egyptians
b. the Greeks
c. the Romans
d. the Chinese
ANSWER: b
16. The process of trepanation
a. always killed the patient.
b. may have been done to release demons or relieve pressure.
c. appears to have been performed after a person died.
d. was first used during the sixteenth century in Europe.
ANSWER: b
17. The Egyptian author of the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus understood that
a. paralysis and lack of sensation in the body resulted from nervous system damage.
b. the brain is the source of every documented type of intelligence.
c. functions can be localized in the brain and the spinal cord, both of which comprise the central nervous system.
d. the brain is made up of trillions of separate cells.
ANSWER: a
18. The Egyptian author of the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus understood that
a. the ventricles are not the source of behavior.
b. epilepsy is a brain disturbance.
c. most nervous system damage is relatively permanent.
d. information about sensation and movement is carried by separate nerves.
ANSWER: c
19. Which of the following provide(s) evidence for early, accurate understanding of the function of the human brain?
a. phrenology
b. Egyptian mummification
c. the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus and the writings of Hippocrates
d. trepanation and the writings of Aristotle
ANSWER: c
20. Who correctly identified epilepsy as originating in the brain?
a. Galen
b. Aristotle
c. Herophilus
d. Hippocrates
ANSWER: d
21. Which of the following thinkers believed that the ventricles played an important role in transmitting information to
and from the brain?
a. Aristotle
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b. Galen
c. Magendie
d. Herophilus
ANSWER: b
22. What mistaken notion about the nervous system persisted from ancient times up through the work of some
Renaissance thinkers?
a. The ventricles play a major role in the transmission of messages in the brain.
b. The heart is the organ of intellect.
c. Damage to the brain is easily repaired.
d. The muscular tremors that characterize epilepsy do not originate in the brain.
ANSWER: a
23. Monism is the philosophical view that considers
a. the mind to be the product of activity in the brain.
b. mind and body to be separate entities.
c. the senses to be the source of knowledge.
d. reality to exist when it enters the thoughts of an observer.
ANSWER: a
24. Which one of the following conclusions regarding animal experimentation was implied by Rene Descartes’s theory of
mind–body dualism?
a. Much could be learned from animal experimentation, as both humans and animals had minds.
b. Animal experimentation was acceptable, as only humans possessed “minds.”
c. Animal experimentation had to be avoided out of respect for the animal “mind.”
d. Ethical guidelines for the use of animals in research were necessary because of the recognition of animal
“minds.”
ANSWER: b
25. Rene Descartes was a dualist, believing the mind and body are separate entities. Which of the following statements
reflects this belief?
a. The mind is the product of neural activity.
b. The mind exists in both human and nonhuman animals.
c. The mind forms an indivisible whole with the body.
d. The mind is not a physical entity that can be studied.
ANSWER: d
26. Descartes’s mind–body dualism is defined as the philosophical view that assumes
a. the mind gives rise to neural activity.
b. mind and body are separate entities.
c. reality exists only when perceived by an observer.
d. the five senses are the source of all knowledge.
ANSWER: b
27. Your roommate’s personality has changed a great deal since an accident injured her prefrontal cortex. This fact
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supports what view of the mind–body connection?
a. phrenologistic
b. monistic
c. socialization
d. dualistic
ANSWER: b
28. Anton van Leeuwenhoek advanced brain science by
a. demonstrating that neurons communicate via electricity.
b. demonstrating that sensory and motor information travel along separate pathways.
c. inventing the light microscope.
d. proposing the Neuron Doctrine.
ANSWER: c
29. Who demonstrated that communication in the nervous system is electrical?
a. Descartes
b. Galvani and du Bois-Reymond
c. Golgi and Cajal
d. van Leeuwenhoek
ANSWER: b
30. The Neuron Doctrine asserts that
a. neurons use electricity to communicate.
b. language is localized to the left hemisphere.
c. separate pathways are used for processing sensory and motor information.
d. the nervous system is a collection of separate cells.
ANSWER: d
31. The Neuron Doctrine was proposed by
a. Descartes.
b. Bell and Magendie.
c. Camillo Golgi.
d. Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
ANSWER: d
32. In 1906, Italian researcher Camillo Golgi and Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal shared a Nobel prize
for their work on the human nervous system. Which of the following statements about their work is true?
a. They did their research separately but came to the same conclusion.
b. They had opposing views on the structure of the nervous system.
c. They did their research together but came to different conclusions.
d. They each resented having to share the Nobel prize with someone else.
ANSWER: b
33. We know today that Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s Neuron Doctrine is accurate, but what theory competed with the
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Neuron Doctrine as recently as the early 1900s?
a. the Bell–Magendie law
b. Camillo Golgi’s view of the nervous system as an interconnected network
c. Luigi Galvani’s proposal that nerves communicate using electricity
d. phrenology
ANSWER: b
34. Gall and Spurzheim, who proposed phrenology theory, eventually realized they were wrong and proposed a
more modern theory. What theory replaced phrenology for these two researchers?
a. The brain is the organ of the mind.
b. The mind is the organ of the brain.
c. The mind and the brain are organs of each other.
d. The mind and the brain are unrelated and exist independently of one another.
ANSWER: a
35. Gall and Spurzheim were responsible for
a. the Neuron Doctrine.
b. establishing the electrical nature of neural communication.
c. demonstrating that sensory and motor information use separate pathways.
d. proposing the “science” of phrenology.
ANSWER: d
36. Although phrenology is mostly wrong, what did phrenologists get right about the nervous system?
a. The ventricles play a major role in the transmission of messages in the brain.
b. Sensation and movement have separate pathways.
c. Neurons communicate using electrical signals.
d. Some functions can be localized in the brain.
ANSWER: d
37. You feel a mosquito on your thigh faster than you feel one on the bottom of your foot. Why?
a. You are instinctively more protective of your thigh than of the bottom of your foot.
b. You can see your thigh but not the bottom of your foot.
c. The signal from your foot has to travel further to reach the brain.
d. Your thigh is more sensitive than the bottom of your foot.
ANSWER: c
38. The localization of language functions in the brain was observed by
a. Paul Broca.
b. Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
c. Fritsch and Hitzig.
d. Camillo Golgi.
ANSWER: a
39. Experiments in which the cortices of rabbits and dogs were stimulated electrically demonstrated that
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a. cortical inhibition can cause an individual to initiate a fight.
b. the nervous system has a hierarchical organization.
c. each side of the brain controls the opposite side of the body.
d. rabbits and dogs have minds.
ANSWER: c
40. The work of which researcher(s) provided further evidence for the localization of some functions in the brain?
a. LeDoux
b. Descartes
c. Fritsch and Hitzig
d. Bell and Magendie
ANSWER: c
41. Dr. Jones argues that higher levels of the brain inhibit aggressive impulses originating in lower levels of the brain. It is
likely that her thinking has been influenced by the work of
a. Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
b. John Hughlings Jackson.
c. Franz Josef Gall.
d. Luigi Galvani.
ANSWER: b
42. John Hughlings Jackson is best known for
a. demonstrating the localization of language in the brain.
b. the Neuron Doctrine.
c. mind–body dualism.
d. viewing the nervous system as a hierarchy.
ANSWER: d
43. Charles Sherrington coined the term synapse, which refers to
a. the separation of brain and mind.
b. localization of activity within the brain.
c. the hierarchical construction of the nervous system.
d. the point of communication between two neurons.
ANSWER: a
44. “Fixing” brain tissue to be viewed refers to
a. slicing tissue into thin slices.
b. preserving the tissue by freezing or by the use of formalin.
c. mounting tissue on slides.
d. deciding which tissue to observe.
ANSWER: b
45. The existence of chemical signaling at the synapse was first demonstrated by
a. Charles Sherrington.
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b. Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
c. John Hughlings Jackson.
d. Otto Loewi.
ANSWER: d
46. Your physician tells you that a medical procedure you need is non-invasive. What does that term tell you about the
procedure?
a. It could be fatal.
b. It will do significant harm to your body.
c. It will do minimal harm to your body.
d. It will do no harm to your body.
ANSWER: d
47. The modern technique of electron microscopy can display images at between 1 and 100 nanometers. A
nanometer is one billionth of a meter. That means these methods are about how many times more powerful than
the naked eye?
a. one hundred
b. one thousand
c. one million
d. ten million
ANSWER: c
48. If you want to observe a small number of cells in detail, it would be best to use the
a. Golgi silver stain.
b. Nissl stain.
c. myelin stain.
d. horseradish peroxidase stain.
ANSWER: a
49. If you want to identify clusters of cell bodies in a sample of tissue, it would be best to use the
a. Golgi silver stain.
b. Nissl stain.
c. myelin stain.
d. horseradish peroxidase stain.
ANSWER: b
50. To follow the pathways carrying information from one part of the brain to another, it would be best to use the
a. Golgi silver stain.
b. Nissl stain.
c. myelin stain.
d. antibody stain.
ANSWER: c
51. In the process known as immunohistochemistry, particular proteins in cells can be identified using
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