Exam 3: Neuroscience and Behavior-Part A

When walking home alone late one night,you are startled by a moving shadow that you glimpse out of the corner of your eye.The _____ division of the autonomic nervous system mobilizes your body's defenses.When you see that the shadow is just the neighbor's cat,the _____ division begins to lessen your physiological arousal.

The sexually reproductive glands in females produce more _____ than they do _____.

The hindbrain does NOT control:

Researchers who compared the sequences of 200 brain-related genes in different animals found a collection of genes that evolved MOST rapidly in:

The _____ is located _____ the thalamus and regulates body temperature,hunger,thirst,and sexual behavior.

Mirror neurons are MOST activated when we:

The _____ are structures mainly involved in orienting an organism in its environment.

The insulating layer of fatty material that covers the axon of many neurons is called the:

The probability of sharing genes is termed:

Which hindbrain structure is involved in balancing ourselves while riding a bicycle?

The striatum is part of the:

The left brain hemisphere receives sensory input from the _____ side of the body and sends motor commands to the _____ side of the body.

The actor Christopher Reeve died from complications related to:

_____ are chemicals that transport information across the synapse to a receiving neuron's dendrites.

The _____ lobe,which processes visual information,is located at the back of the cerebral cortex.

Which structure is part of the midbrain?

The area of the brain that coordinates information coming into and out of the spinal cord is termed the:

Annette has difficulty moving her arm when it is stimulated.Specifically,the spinal cord never receives the message from pressure detectors in the skin.Which type of neuron is probably affected?

When the fusiform gyrus is damaged,people experience difficulties:

The communication chemicals that actually cross the synaptic gap between axons and dendrites are: