Exams Corrections

Question 1

Tremors of Parkinson’s disease from death of nerve cells that produce the neurotransmitter

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Dopamine

Question 2

An effect of adrenaline on the body is most similar to the effect of the

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Sympathetic nervous system

Question 3

Epigenetic

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How the environment triggers genetic expression

Question 4

Refractory period

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Time interval in positively charged ions and pumped back outside a neural membrane

Question 5

our lips more sensitive that our knees to sensation of touch because

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Larger area of sensory cortex is associated with lips

Question 6

Right cerebral hemisphere function

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Recognizing faces

Question 7

Phineas Gage

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Frontal lobe

Question 8

Rest and digest

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Parasympathetic nervous system

Question 9

Brain tumor results in

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Hypothalamus

Question 10

Somatic nervous system

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Component of peripheral nervous system

Question 11

While walking, brain sends messages to the skeletal messages in legs by

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Efferent neurons

Question 12

Dendrites

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Branching extensions of neurons

Question 13

Neurotransmitters released from vehicles located on

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Terminals or the end of the cell body

Question 14

Neuron in resting state is

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Inside of cell membrane, negative to outside

Question 15

Blind person reading Braille is

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Brain plasticity

Question 16

What’s not a part of a neuron

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Synapse

Question 17

Sleep researchers interested in brain wave activity will use

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EEG

Question 18

Migraines headaches and seizures are linked with

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Oversupply of glutamate

Question 19

Psychoactive drugs infers with normal neural transmission in the

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Synapse

Question 20

Resting potential to action potential is as

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Polarization is to depolarization

Question 21

Main difference between MRI and fMRI

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MRI- brain’s structural details

fMRI- structure and activity level

Question 22

You feel scared for a while even after the car suddenly passes because

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Endocrine messages tend to outlast the effects of neurotransmitters

Question 23

Brain’s involvement in speech production

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Left frontal lobe

Question 24

Studying customer satisfaction with a newly developed line of cell phone

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Industrial organization psychologist

Question 25

Personality differences between different races

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Nature-nurture issue