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25.1. There are about _____________neurons in a human brain and about ____________genes in a human.
A) 100 billion, 1 billion
B) 100,000, 300,000
C) 30,000, 300 billion
D) 100 billion, 30,000
E) 10 billion, 1 billion |
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25.2. Carl Vogt (not in lecture slides) summarized his thoughts about the relationship between the mind and the brain: “To express myself a bit crudely here, thoughts stand in the same relation to the brain as gall does to the liver or urine to the kidneys.” This quote indicates that Vogt is a_______________.
A) dualist
B) animaliculist
C) cerebralist
D) vitalist
E) monist |
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25.3. According to Aristotle, the __________was the seat of the soul while Hippocrates though that the ___________ was the seat of the soul.
A) brain, liver
B) brain, heart
C) heart, liver
D) liver, brain
E) heart, brain |
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25.4. The 19th century science of determining a person’s nature from the bumps in the person’s head is known as_______________.
A) functional MRI
B) phrenology
C) physiognomy
D) physiology
E) anatomy |
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25.5. The 21st century technique of determining a person’s nature from the distribution of oxygenated blood is known as_____________________.
A) functional MRI
B) phrenology
C) physiognomy
D) physiology
E) anatomy |
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25.6. The Anatomy Laws were passed to:
A) prevent murders committed to supply anatomists with human bodies
B) protect dead people from body snatchers
C) to provide anatomists with the dead bodies of paupers
D) stop the black market sale of dead bodies
E) all of the above |
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25.7. The Body Snatchers was written by__________________.
A) Mary Shelley
B) Francis Bacon
C) Ken Kesey
D) Tom Wolfe
E) Robert Lewis Stevenson |
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25.8. By 1860, Rudolf Wagner realized that there is ___________ relationship between brain size or number of folds and intellectual gifts.
A) no
B) a statistically significant
C) a biologically meaningful
D) a probable
E) an hereditary |
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25.9. In biology, statistically significant results due to chance alone have no _________________.
A) median
B) mean
C) standard deviation
D) variance
E) biological significance |
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25.10. Men in ______________ were found by Spitzka to have the smallest brains.
A) the exact sciences
B) the natural sciences
C) fine arts and philosophy
D) government and the military
E) bars |
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25.11. When Spitzka realized that nothing could be found in the brain of McKinley’s assassin Czolgosz that would condone his crime, Spitzka suggested that_______________may explain Czolgosz’s behavior.
A) bad genes
B) bad weather
C) chemical disturbances
D) a poor diet
E) a bacterial infection |
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25.12. Language skills are normally localized in the ______________.
A) motor homunculus
B) limbic system
C) corpus callosum
D) left side of the brain
E) right side of the brain |
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25.13. Jill Bolte Taylor had a stroke in __________ of her brain.
A) limbic region
B) left side
C) right side
D) hypothalamus
E) thalamus |
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25.14. According to Jill Bolte Taylor, the ________of the brain acts as a serial processor and the _________of the brain acts as a parallel processor.
A) hypothalamus, thalamus
B) right side, left side
C) left side, right side
D) limbic system, cerebrum
E) cerebrum, limbic system |
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25.15. The "low road” of the fight or flight response is normally localized in the ______________.
A) motor homunculus
B) limbic system
C) cerebrum
D) left side of the brain
E) right side of the brain |
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25.16. The "high road” of the fight or flight response is normally localized in the ______________.
A) motor homunculus
B) limbic system
C) cerebrum
D) brainstem
E) hypothalamus |
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25.17. Hemispherectomized patients
A) recover quickly
B) have undiminished intellectual capabilities
C) are relieved from severe seizures
D) are paralyzed on the opposite side of the body
E) all of the above |
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25.18. Proprioception is normally localized in the ______________.
A) motor homunculus
B) cerebellum
C) corpus callosum
D) left side of the brain
E) right side of the brain |
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25.19. Alcohol impairs one’s ability to touch his/her nose, which is an example of alcohols impairment of ___________.
A) proprioception.
B) monoamine oxidase activity
C) the brainstem
D) the spinal cord
E) the sympathetic nervous system |
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25.20. It is possible that Charles Whitman, the person who went on a shooting spree from the library tower at the University of Texas, was unable to help himself because of a tumor in his__________.
A) finger
B) spinal cord
C) colon
D) adrenal gland
E) hypothalamus |
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25.21. After a tamping rod when through the cerebrum of Phineas Gage, hew changed from a ____________ to a ________________.
A) nice man, mean man
B) mean man, gentle man
C) nice man, mean woman
D) mean man, nice woman
E) construction worker, mayor of a large city in Vermont |
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24.16. Color-blindness is:
A) a sex-linked genetic trait
B) due to a deficiency in vitamin C
C) due to being exposed to too much chromotoxin in the womb
D) due to listening to music too loud
E) all of the above |
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24.17. Menthol binds to the _________receptor and capsaicin binds to the _________ receptor which prevents pain by overwhelming the neurons that carry the pain message.
A) pain, pain
B) deep pressure, light touch
C) light touch, deep pressure
D) hot, cold
E) cold, hot |
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