FINAL EXAM

Question 1

Nervous system that consists of the brain and spinal cord

Answer 1

Central nervous system

Question 2

Nervous system that consist of the spinal nerves and the cranial nerves

Answer 2

Somatic nervous system

Question 3

Nervous system that consists of the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions

Answer 3

Autonomic Nervous System

Question 4

Nervous system that controls the gut

Answer 4

Enteric Nervous system

Question 5

Lobe that controls decision making

Answer 5

Frontal

Question 6

Lobe that controls voluntary movement

Answer 6

Frontal

Question 7

Lobe that controls hearing, language, musical abilities

Answer 7

Temporal

Question 8

Lobe that controls facial recognition and emotional processing

Answer 8

Temporal

Question 9

Lobe that controls movement direction

Answer 9

Parietal

Question 10

Lobe that controls visual scene processing

Answer 10

Occipital

Question 11

Outer layer of the forebrain

Answer 11

Cerebral cortex

Question 12

Thin, folded layer of nerve tissue

Answer 12

Cerebral cortex

Question 13

Dendritic spines, dendrites, cell body, axon, axon hillock, terminal button, synapse

Answer 13

Main structures of a neuron

Question 14

Contains receptor molecules that receive chemical messages

Answer 14

Postsynaptic membrane

Question 15

Site to which a neurotransmitter molecule binds

Answer 15

Postsynaptic receptor

Question 16

Small space separating presynaptic terminal and dendritic spine

Answer 16

Synaptic cleft

Question 17

Large compartment that holds synaptic vesicles

Answer 17

Storage granule

Question 18

Encloses molecules that transmit chemical messages

Answer 18

Presynaptic membrane

Question 19

Round granule that contains neurotransmitter

Answer 19

Synaptic vesicle

Question 20

Organelle that provides the cell with energy

Answer 20

Mitochondrion

Question 21

Transport structure that carries substances to the axon terminal

Answer 21

Microtubule

Question 22

What pathway is the pulvinar in

Answer 22

Tectopulvinar

Question 23

What pathway is the superior colliculus in

Answer 23

Tectopulvinar

Question 24

V2, V3, V3A, V4, V5, and the dorsal and ventral streams are in what pathway

Answer 24

Extrastriate

Question 25

The eye, the LGN, and V1 are in what pathway

Answer 25

Geniculostriate pathway

Question 26

“How” action

Answer 26

Dorsal stream

Question 27

“What” action

Answer 27

Ventral stream

Question 28

Detects location and shifts eyes

Answer 28

Superior colliculus

Question 29

Primary visual cortex (color, form, movement)

Answer 29

V1

Question 30

Moves muscles at the body’s midline

Answer 30

Anterior corticospinal tract

Question 31

Moves limbs and digits of the body’s right side

Answer 31

Lateral corticospinal tract