Exam 5: The Central Nervous System

The storage capacity of the long-term memory bank is ____________________ (larger/smaller)than the capacity of short-term memory.

An example of a cranial reflex is constriction of the pupils of your eyes in response to bright light.

What part of the brain plays an especially important role in declarative memories?

What are the main neurotransmitters involved with pathways for emotions and behavior?

The human brain is the consistency of tofu and typically weighs about eleven pounds.

What are the immune defense cells of the CNS called?

____________________ is the ability to direct behavior toward specific goals.

Basal nuclei consist of ____.

The ____________________ plays a role in planning and initiating voluntary activity by providing input to the cortical motor areas.

Based on varying distributions of several distinctive cell types,the cerebral cortex is organized into how many well-defined layers?

What are the nourishing membranes that lie between the bony covering of the CNS and the nervous tissue?

The space between the arachnoid layer and the underlying pia mater,the ____________________ space,is filled with CSF.

The major orchestrator of the complex reasoning skills associated with working memory is the ____________________ association cortex.

In most people,the areas of the brain responsible for language ability are found in ____________________ hemisphere(s).

What part of the limbic system controls the increase of heart rate and respiratory rate,elevation of blood pressure,and diversion of blood to skeletal muscles?

How many pairs of cranial nerves are there?

The limbic system includes the amygdala,which is important for processing what emotions?

The brain displays a degree of plasticity,which is an ability to genetically remodel in response to the demands placed on it.

List the nine functions of the hypothalamus.

The primary auditory cortex is located in the ____________________ lobe of the brain.