Question: Broca’s aphasia occurs when _______________.
Answer Choices:
The part of the brain involved in language production is damaged
Individuals reach late adolescence
A patient’s corpus callosum is severed to treat epileptic seizures
The optic chiasm begins to degrade due to illness
Answer: The part of the brain involved in language production is damaged
Question: Damage to the temporal lobe is typically the cause of _______________.
Answer Choices:
Broca’s aphasia
Split-brain phenomena
Wernicke’s aphasia
Component-dominant cognition
Answer: Wernicke’s aphasia
Question: Free nerve endings respond to _______________.
Answer Choices:
Stretching of skin
Flashing lights
Temperature and pain
Low frequency sounds
Answer: Temperature and pain
Question: Which of the following causes the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease?
Answer Choices:
Not enough firing of dopaminergic neurons
Too much firing of dopaminergic neurons
An inability of the body to regulate blood flow
Excessive levels of L-dopa in the blood
Answer: Not enough firing of dopaminergic neurons
Question: Which of the following connects Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas?
Answer Choices:
The occipital lobe
The arcuate fasciculus
The angular gyrus
The optic chiasm
Answer: The arcuate fasciculus
Question: The neurotransmitter _______________ is classified as an indolamine because it is synthesized from tryptophan.
Answer Choices:
Serotonin
Dopamine
Epinephrine
Glutamate
Answer: Serotonin
Question: Autoreceptors are commonly found in _______________.
Answer Choices:
Soma
Postsynaptic membranes
Presynaptic membranes
Synaptic vesicles
Answer: Presynaptic membranes
Question: A neuron becomes less likely to fire when it undergoes _______________.
Answer Choices:
Hyperpolarization
Depolarization
Myelination
Haptic unwrapping
Answer: Hyperpolarization
Question: Which of the following areas plays a key role in the production (but not processing) of linguistic speech?
Answer Choices:
Broca’s area
Wernicke’s area
Hypothalamus
Lingual auditory cortex
Answer: Broca’s area
Question: Curare functions by _______________.
Answer Choices:
Preventing cholinergic receptors from binding with acetylcholine released into the synapse
Destroying vesicles inside the presynaptic membrane
Blocking reuptake of dopamine in the synapse
Accelerating the enzymatic degradation of serotonin in the synaptic cleft
Answer: Preventing cholinergic receptors from binding with acetylcholine released into the synapse
Question: Your face is on the _______________ side of your head.
Answer Choices:
Anterior
Posterior
Ventral
Dorsal
Answer: Anterior
Question: Which of the following are responsible for myelination of axons in the central nervous system?
Answer Choices:
Oligodendrocytes
Astrocytes
Microglia
Schwann cells
Answer: Oligodendrocytes
Question: A backpack is worn on the _______________ side of the human body.
Answer Choices:
Dorsal
Posterior
Ventral
Anterior
Answer: Posterior
Question: The cerebral ventricles are filled with _______________, which helps protect the brain from injury.
Answer Choices:
Blood
Neurotransmitters
Cerebrospinal fluid
White matter
Answer: Cerebrospinal fluid
Question: The _______________ lobe contains the visual cortex, which plays a key role in processing visual information.
Answer Choices:
Occipital
Temporal
Frontal
Parietal
Answer: Occipital
Question: Which of the following is responsible for the direct manipulation and coordination of skeletal muscles?
Answer Choices:
Somatic nervous system
Parasympathetic nervous system
Sympathetic nervous system
Central nervous system
Answer: Somatic nervous system
Question: Autoreceptors:
Answer Choices:
Help regulate neurotransmitter levels in the synapse
Help transport neuropeptides from the cell body to the axon terminal
Play a key role in the synthesis of GABA and glutamate neurotransmitters
Alter signals between neurons in the nucleus and ribosomes in the axon
Answer: Help regulate neurotransmitter levels in the synapse
Question: Drugs that block the reuptake of a neurotransmitter from the synapse are usually _______________.
Answer Choices:
Agonists of that neurotransmitter
Antagonists of that neurotransmitter
Enzymes of that neurotransmitter
Receptor blockers
Answer: Agonists of that neurotransmitter
Question: Which of the following are responsible for myelination of axons in the peripheral nervous system?
Answer Choices:
Schwann cells
Oligodendrocytes
Astrocytes
Vesicles
Answer: Schwann cells