Exam 3: Biological Aspects of Psychology

If the person sitting beside you were to tap your shoulder,neurons in ____ would become active in response to the tap.

After an accident,Stella is left with brain damage.Now Stella has trouble judging the emotions of others,even when she can see their facial expressions.Stella has most likely damaged her ____.

A scientist who wants to know more about how neurons are organized,how they communicate in varying combinations,and how they are involved in producing different patterns of behavior will most likely focus her research on ____.

After a back injury,Riamsalat has no feeling below his waist,though he can still move his legs and feet.Riamsalat has probably damaged his ____neurons.

Dr.Zomboss plans to overtake all of humankind by shutting down the fiber tracts of their brains.To do this,Dr.Zomboss will set his brain zappers to target ____.

Belinda has been depressed lately and is having suicidal thoughts.We assume that her brain has low levels of ____.

The digestion of last night's dinner is most directly controlled by the ____ system.

During a job interview,Samira realizes that she is sweating a little bit and feels her heart pounding against her chest.Her stomach is also a little bit upset and she hasn't felt like eating all day.From this information,it appears that the ____ division of Samira's ____ nervous system is very active.

Nina the neuron has been damaged and the vesicles in her axon are now empty and cannot be refilled.What will Nina no longer be able to do?

Bobby,Peter,and Greg are working outside on their bikes when their father,Mike,accidentally slips on some axle grease and pulled the trigger of the nail gun he is carrying several times as he is falling.All four survive,but Bobby's hippocampus,Peter's amygdala,Greg's striatum,and Mike's hypothalamus are destroyed.Who will no longer be able to dance?

Athea is a subject in a study in which the glucose in her brain is marked with a radioactive substance.Then radiation detectors identified especially active brain areas.Which technology is likely used in this study?

You are a morning person who loves to get up early and enjoy the new day.Your roommate is a night person who only begins to wake up in the early afternoon.The part of the brain that regulates each of your biological clocks is the ____.

When you are running to catch a bus,the ____ nervous system is directly responsible for making the muscles in your legs move.

Andre was in a terrible car accident and had a serious head injury.As a result,he is now in a permanent coma.Andre most likely has damage to his ____.

While Bonnie is getting ready for her first date with Juan,her heart is racing and her blood pressure is high because she is excited and nervous.While dining,Bonnie becomes calm and relaxed.While getting ready,Bonnie's ____ nervous system was activated.While dining,Bonnie's ____ nervous system was activated.

Donovan had a stroke last year,and doctors were unsure whether he would ever fully recover.Donovan did very little physical exercise to speed up his recovery,but the damaged cells in his nervous system still managed to regenerate and reestablish their network connections.Donovan's system has a naturally high level of ____.

Yoon always feels tired during her afternoon classes.You tell Yoon that she should avoid eating high-carbohydrate lunches because they increase the levels of ____ in her brain,which causes her to feel sleepy.

Juan has his corpus callosum severed to prevent whole-brain seizures.Now,he sits in front of a screen and stares at a dot in the middle,while simple visual stimuli are flashed briefly to the left and right of the dot.What will Juan be able to do with this stimuli?

Trisha is gradually developing an impairment in her ability to perform finely coordinated movements,such as cutting a clove of garlic into very small pieces.Doctors will probably discover a problem in her ____.

In fourth grade,Tate joins the school band and learns to play the trumpet.After a year of practice,the cortical regions in Tate's brain responsible for motor coordination of the hands have increased dramatically.This phenomenon demonstrates that the brain has ____.