Brain and Behaviour Midterm

Question 1

T or F: Action potentials are propagated in the synaptic cleft?

Answer 1

False

Question 2

T or F: Neurotransmitters are released at the presynaptic cleft

Answer 2

True

Question 3

T or F: Neurotransmitters are taken up at the postsynaptic cleft (also the dendrite)

Answer 3

True - to create a synaptic potential

Question 4

T or F: ANS is part of the CNS

Answer 4

False: ANS is apart of the Peripheral Nervous System

Question 5

T or F: PNS is part of CNS

Answer 5

False: PNS is it’s own separate system from the Central Nervous System as its outside the skull while central is inside the skull

Question 6

The destruction of myelin is known to cause what illness?

Answer 6

Multiple Sclerosis

Question 7

What is Phonological dyslexia

Answer 7

Reading disorder in which patient has difficulty reading nonwords

Question 8

What is surface dyslexia

Answer 8

Normal with regular words until there is a print to sound correspondence that doesn’t sound like how it’s spelled

Question 9

What is phonological dysgraphia

Answer 9

Written language disorder, difficulty in processing nonwords

Question 10

What is surface dysgraphia

Answer 10

Difficulty in words that disobeys typically prounciation rules, like “pint”