(Unit 2) Psychology 1020: Chapter 3 Practice test Brain & Heredity

The occipital lobe is located in the ____.

lower back of the cerebrum

Neurons that are not firing are ______.

negetively

The reticular formation is found in the _____.

brainstem

To find out if a baby can tell the difference between two stimuli, a researcher would use _____.

habituation

The left hemisphere is especially good at _____.

Language

Neurons have small branches growing out of their cell bodies that receive information. They are called:

dendrites

Just behind the central fissure is a bump known as the ____ area.

somatosensory

The longitudinal fissure divides the brain into _____.

hemispheres

If a damaged in the motor area, a person would experience _____.

paralysis

The lobe near the ear is called the _____ lobe.

temporal

A person having difficulty moving his arm probably has damage to ______.

the motor area

Because of a meiosis, the normal human ovum contains how many chromosomes?

23

Thinking about the future, planning, and making decisions are jobs done by the _____.

prefrontal lobe

The thalamus is the center of the _____.

limbic system

The neurons in the brain that process visual information are located in the _____ lobe.

occipital

The “where pathway” in the brain is located in the ____ lobe.

parietal

The memories of learned fears are stored in the ____.

amygdala.

Which part of brain controls the expression of language?

Broca’s area

Spatial perception is more controlled by the _____.

right hemisphere

The cerebellum is involved in controlling _____.

vision

When the inside of a neuron is becoming more positively charged, we say it is _____.

depolarizing

What do we call the chemicals that pass at the synapse?

Neurotransmitters

Excessive overeating would occur if there was damage to a certain place in the ______.

hypothalamus

Which of these brain imaging techniques shows functioning?

fMRI

The long groove found in both hemispheres that goes downward and divides the front from the back lobes of the brain is called the ____ fissure.

central

An antidepressant drug will probably increase the activity of a brain chemical called ____

serotonin.

The temporal lobe has an area for perception of ____.

hearing

A person will have memory impairment if damaged in the ____.

hippocampus.

Split brain patients cannot say what something is if it is _____.

held in their left hand

Which system in the brain directs our focus onto certain stimuli?

reticular

Confabulation seems to be a function of _____.

the somatosensory area

A person with Parkinson’s disease might be treated with ____.

l-dopa

What is the term for growing new brain cells?

Neurogenesis

How many chromosomes does a person with Klinefelter’s syndome have?

47

In the DNA, the A chemical typically connects with the ____ chemical.

T chemical (thymine)

What do scientists call identical twins?

MZ

The fight or flight response is triggered by the ____ system.

limbic

The relay center for sensory information in the brain is the _____.

thalamus

The top part of the spinal cord where it meets the brain is called the _____.

brainstem

Which of these brain area is not involved in body movement?

occipital lobe

Body movement depends on signals coming from the ____ lobe.

frontal

If damaged in Wernicke’s area, a patient would have difficulty with ______.

understanding language

Which brain area helps smooth muscle movements?

basal ganglia

If a split-brain patient sees a pencil in the left field of vision, she will be able to _____.

touch a pencil with her left hand

The left hemisphere is good at _____.

analysis

Twins that develop from two different eggs are called _____.

DZ

Conjoined twins are always ______.

MZ

The union of a sperm and egg is called _____.

a zygote

Of a person’s chromosomes, how many are called #4?

2

The sodium ion channels on a neuron allow the inside of the neuron to become _____ when it fires.

positively charged

Where are neurotransmitters found?

terminals

Myelin is ____ in color.

white

If a person is damaged in the temporal lobe, that person would have difficulty with _____.

hearing

The body sense, such as touch, are processed in the brain in the _____ lobe.

a parietal

To move your right hand, a neural signal must come from the ____ hemisphere.

left

Plasticity is the term that scientists use to indicate that the brain can ____.

re-organize

Split-brain patients will be able to talk about images that they see in their ____ field of vision.

right

The idea that language ability is built into the human brain was promoted by the psycholinguist:

Noam Chomsky

Aphasia is a ____ problem.

language

When looking at a face made of vegetables, the right hemispere would perceive it as _____.

a face