Exam 2: Neuroscience and Behavior Concepts

If you touch a hot stove and you remove your hand right away,you are employing a(n)________.

The average brain weighs __________ pound(s).

Explain what mirror neurons do when they are fired.

Terminal buttons are chemicals that carry messages across the synapse to a dendrite of a receiving neuron.

__________ is involved in memory capabilities;diminished production of this neurotransmitter may be related to Alzheimer's disease.

Drugs that trigger the development of new neurons might be used to counter diseases like Alzheimer's that are produced when neurons die.

A resting state is ______________.

_________ messages make it more likely that a receiving neuron will fire and an action potential will travel down its axon.

Neurons that fire not only when a person enacts a particular behavior,but also when a person observes another individual carrying out the same behavior,are known as ___________.

The brain controls our behavior during every waking and sleeping moment.

Scientists have learned in recent years that the brain continually reorganizes itself in a process termed _____.

The brain continually reorganizes itself in a process termed _______________.

Behavioral ____________are ps ychologists who specialize in considering the ways in which biological structures and functions of the brain affect behavior.

There are two major divisions of the peripheral nervous system.

Which of the following is a modern brain-scanning technique?

It has been hypothesized that ________________ of dopamine produces negative consequences in a person like schizophrenia.

Neurons fire,transmit an electrical impulse along the axon,or don't fire.

If someone has Parkinson's disease,then they have a deficiency of which neurotransmitter?

_________ messages make it more likely that a receiving neuron will fire and an action potential will travel down its axon.

A procedure in which a person learns to control through conscious thought internal physiological processes such as blood pressure,heart and respiration rate,skin temperature,sweating,and the constriction of particular muscles is called ___________.