EPPP BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
EXAM SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
⩥ Parts of the Peripheral Nervous system. Answer: Somatic Nervous
System and Autonomic Nervous system
⩥ The ___________ nervous system sends and receives sensory
messages that control voluntary motor movement of the skeletal
muscles. Answer: Somatic
⩥ The _______ nervous system controls the automatic or involuntary
bodily functions of the smooth muscles and glands including digestions,
heart rate, and breathing. The primary function is to maintain
homeostasis. It is divided into the sympathetic and parasympathetic
systems.. Answer: Autonomic
⩥ The ________ nervous system body's "mobilizing system"
Fight or flight and is dominant during times of stress.
When this mobilizing system is activated, hormones are released into the
bloodstream which result in increased respiration, heart rate, and blood
,pressure and decreases the process of digestion and elimination..
Answer: Sympathetic
⩥ The ________ nervous system is the "energy conserving system".
Dominant when a person is relaxed.
The main function is maintenance, which is accomplished by slowing
heart rate, bp, and respiration while increasing digestion and
elimination.. Answer: Parasympathetic
⩥ Which system, parasympathetic or sympathetic, is healthier to have
dominant?. Answer: parasympathetic
⩥ spinal cord and brain with sensory (afferent) neurons carrying info
inward and motor (efferent) neurons carrying outward to muscles and
glands. Answer: The central nervous system
⩥ Name the spinal cord 4 regions. Answer: cervical/neck,
thoracic/chest.,lumbar/back, and sacral region
⩥ What are the major divisions of the brain?. Answer: cerebrum
(cerebral cortex and sub cortical areas), cerebellum, and brain stem
⩥ _______ is involved with complex thought, perception, and action.
,The outer layer is the cerebral cortex and the inside includes the
subcortical areas. Answer: The cerebrum
⩥ least developed part of the brain at birth.
More developed in humans than other animals. full of folds (gyri) which
allow for expansion of the cortical surface without increasing brain size.
divided into two halves-left and right which are connected by the corpus
collosum. Answer: cerebral cortex
⩥ What are the four lobes of the brain?. Answer: frontal, parietal,
temporal, occipital
⩥ what separates the lobes of the brain?. Answer: Sulci (elongated
grooves)
⩥ What separates the frontal and parietal lobes?. Answer: central sulcus
⩥ What separates the temporal from frontal and parietal lobes?. Answer:
lateral sulcus
⩥ dominant hemisphere in 97% of people. dominance refers to control
over language (reading, writing, speaking, motor control, etc).. Answer:
The left hemisphere
, ⩥ involved in language, verbal memory and rational, analytical, logical,
and abstract thinking.. Answer: left hemisphere
⩥ Damage to the _____ may result in aphasia, language impairments,
apraxia, and difficulties for the right side of the body. Answer: left
hemisphere
⩥ responsible for perceptual, visuospatial, artistic, musical, and intuitive
activities; maintenance of body image and comprehension of visual,
facial, and verbal emotion.. Answer: Right hemisphere
⩥ Damage to the _____ may result in left side hemi-neglect,
prosopagnosia, visual spatial disturbances, agnosia for musical sounds,
indifference, euphoria, hysteria, depression, mania, disinhibition,
impolisitivty, and abnormal sexual behavior. Answer: Right hemisphere
⩥ The _____ occupies the largest portion of the brain. Answer: Frontal
lobe
⩥ Name the 3 main divisions of the frontal lobe. Answer: prefrontal
cortex, premotor area, motor area.
⩥ damage to the __________ may result in paralysis, changes in
personality, emotional lability, perseveration, inattention, difficulty with
EXAM SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
⩥ Parts of the Peripheral Nervous system. Answer: Somatic Nervous
System and Autonomic Nervous system
⩥ The ___________ nervous system sends and receives sensory
messages that control voluntary motor movement of the skeletal
muscles. Answer: Somatic
⩥ The _______ nervous system controls the automatic or involuntary
bodily functions of the smooth muscles and glands including digestions,
heart rate, and breathing. The primary function is to maintain
homeostasis. It is divided into the sympathetic and parasympathetic
systems.. Answer: Autonomic
⩥ The ________ nervous system body's "mobilizing system"
Fight or flight and is dominant during times of stress.
When this mobilizing system is activated, hormones are released into the
bloodstream which result in increased respiration, heart rate, and blood
,pressure and decreases the process of digestion and elimination..
Answer: Sympathetic
⩥ The ________ nervous system is the "energy conserving system".
Dominant when a person is relaxed.
The main function is maintenance, which is accomplished by slowing
heart rate, bp, and respiration while increasing digestion and
elimination.. Answer: Parasympathetic
⩥ Which system, parasympathetic or sympathetic, is healthier to have
dominant?. Answer: parasympathetic
⩥ spinal cord and brain with sensory (afferent) neurons carrying info
inward and motor (efferent) neurons carrying outward to muscles and
glands. Answer: The central nervous system
⩥ Name the spinal cord 4 regions. Answer: cervical/neck,
thoracic/chest.,lumbar/back, and sacral region
⩥ What are the major divisions of the brain?. Answer: cerebrum
(cerebral cortex and sub cortical areas), cerebellum, and brain stem
⩥ _______ is involved with complex thought, perception, and action.
,The outer layer is the cerebral cortex and the inside includes the
subcortical areas. Answer: The cerebrum
⩥ least developed part of the brain at birth.
More developed in humans than other animals. full of folds (gyri) which
allow for expansion of the cortical surface without increasing brain size.
divided into two halves-left and right which are connected by the corpus
collosum. Answer: cerebral cortex
⩥ What are the four lobes of the brain?. Answer: frontal, parietal,
temporal, occipital
⩥ what separates the lobes of the brain?. Answer: Sulci (elongated
grooves)
⩥ What separates the frontal and parietal lobes?. Answer: central sulcus
⩥ What separates the temporal from frontal and parietal lobes?. Answer:
lateral sulcus
⩥ dominant hemisphere in 97% of people. dominance refers to control
over language (reading, writing, speaking, motor control, etc).. Answer:
The left hemisphere
, ⩥ involved in language, verbal memory and rational, analytical, logical,
and abstract thinking.. Answer: left hemisphere
⩥ Damage to the _____ may result in aphasia, language impairments,
apraxia, and difficulties for the right side of the body. Answer: left
hemisphere
⩥ responsible for perceptual, visuospatial, artistic, musical, and intuitive
activities; maintenance of body image and comprehension of visual,
facial, and verbal emotion.. Answer: Right hemisphere
⩥ Damage to the _____ may result in left side hemi-neglect,
prosopagnosia, visual spatial disturbances, agnosia for musical sounds,
indifference, euphoria, hysteria, depression, mania, disinhibition,
impolisitivty, and abnormal sexual behavior. Answer: Right hemisphere
⩥ The _____ occupies the largest portion of the brain. Answer: Frontal
lobe
⩥ Name the 3 main divisions of the frontal lobe. Answer: prefrontal
cortex, premotor area, motor area.
⩥ damage to the __________ may result in paralysis, changes in
personality, emotional lability, perseveration, inattention, difficulty with
