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Behavioral Neuroscience
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
05/04/2011

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The primary difference between biological psychologists and neuroscientists is that biological psychologists place greater emphasis on studying:
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Behavior
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The notion that the mind and body are different in substance is called:
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Dualism
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A monist believes that mind and body are:
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the same thing
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Solipsism is the position that:
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I alone have consciousness
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Which specialist is most likely to work with people with brain damage?
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neuropsychologist
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A strand of DNA serves as a template for the synthesis of:

 

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RNA
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Color vision deficiency is more common in males than in females because it is controlled by a:
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recessive X-linked gene
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For a group of individuals the heritability score for a particular trait is .5. What can be said about the heredity of this trait?
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Heredity differences account for some of the observed differences for this group of individuals
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What best describes the concept of evolution?
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Reproduction of the fittest
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Santiago Ramon y Cajal demonstrated that:
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Neurons are separate from one  another
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What chemicals flow most freely across a cell membrane?
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water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide
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Some dendrites contain additional short outgrowths. What are these outgrowths called?
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Dendritic spines
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Nodes of Ranvier are:
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gaps in the myelin of axons
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What is the characteristic of glial cells in the human brian?
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Thery are more numerous than neurons
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Compared to passive transport the major disadvantage of active transport is that it:
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Requires expenditure of energy
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The membrane of a neuron is composed of ___ with ____ embedded in them.
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Fat molecules; proteins
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When a neuron's membrane is at rest, the concentration gradient tends to move sodium____ the cell and the electrical gradient tends to move it ___ the cell.
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Into, into
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At the peak of the action potential, the electrical gradient of potassium:
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Pushes potassium out of the cell
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The presence of myelin and the diameter of the ason:
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Affects the speed of an action potential
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Sherrington found that repeated stiumuli within a brief time have a cumulative effect. He referred to this phenomenon as: 
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temporal summation
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What ordinarily prevents extensor muscles from contracting at the same time as flexor muscles?
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inhibitory synapses in the spinal cord
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What determines whether a neuron has an action potential?
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the combined effects of EPSPs and IPSPs
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In addition to influencing other neurons, __dilates the nearby blood vessels, thereby increasing blood flow to that area of the brain
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nitric oxide
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The amino acid tryptophan, is the precursor to?
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Serotonin
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An action potential causes the release of neurotransmitters by:
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Opening calcium pores in the membrane
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A receptor can directly open a channel, exerting an ___ effect or it can produce slower but longer___effects.
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Ionotropic; metabotropic
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Neurotransmitter is to __ as cyclic AMP is to _____'
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First messenger, second messenger
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Releasing hormones are synthesized in the ___, and released in the____.
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Hypothalamus, anterior pituitary
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What would be the effect of a drug that inhibits the action of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase?
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Prolonged action of acetylcholine at its synapses
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