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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. Idea that selection for improved brain cooling through increased blood circulation in the brains of early hominids enabled the brain to grow larger.
Meninges
Radiator Hypothesis
Nerve Set
Psyche
2. Clear solution of sodium chloride and other salts that fills the ventricles inside the brain and circulates around the brain and spinal cord beneath the arachnoid layer in the subarachnoid space.
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Afferent
Stroke
Thalamus
3. The nervous system's potential for physical or chemical change that enhances its adaptability to environmental change and its ability to compensate for injury.
Neuroplasticity
Tegmentum
Spinal Cord
Hypothalamus
4. Central structures of the brain - including the hindbrain - midbrain - thalamus - and hypothalamus - responsible for most unconscious behavior.
Culture
Neoteny
Species-typical behavior
Brainstem
5. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.
Midbrain
White Matter
Chordate
Hemispherectomy
6. Cerebral Cortex that functions to direct movements toward a goal or to perform a task - such as grasping an object - lying posterior to the central sulcus and beneath the parietal bone at the top of the skull.
Hindbrain
Parietal Lobe
Cerebellum
Ganglia
7. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.
Mentalism
Clinical Trial
Dualism
Psyche
8. Darwin's theory for explaining how new species evolve and how existing species change over time. Differential success in the reproduction of different characteristics (phenotypes) results from the interaction of organisms with their environment.
Diencephalon
Culture
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Natural Selection
9. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.
Sulcus (Sulci)
Sympathetic Division
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Tegmentum
10. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.
Diencephalon
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Common Ancestor
Temporal Lobe
11. Part of the autonomic nervous system; arouses the body for action - such as mediating the involuntary fight-or-flight response to alarm by increasing hear rate and blood pressure.
Chordate
Cerebral Cortex
Sympathetic Division
Efferent
12. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.
Mind-Body Problem
Limbic system
Law of Bell and Magendie
Common Ancestor
13. A small protrusion or bump formed by the folding of the cerebral cortex.
Afferent
Gyrus (Gyri)
Mind
Gray Matter
14. Evolutionarily the oldest part of the brain; contains pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum structures that coordinate and control most voluntary and involuntary movements.
Hindbrain
Nerve
Clinical Trial
Law of Bell and Magendie
15. Division into a number of parts that are similar; refers to the idea that many animals - including vertebrates - are composed of similarly organized body segments.
Segmentation
Neuroplasticity
Sulcus (Sulci)
Gyrus (Gyri)
16. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.
Bilateral Symmetry
Dermatome
Cerebellum
Tegmentum
17. Part of the autonomic nervous system; acts in opposition to the sympathetic division- for example - preparing the body to rest and digest by reversing the alarm response or stimulating digestion.
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Meninges
Species-typical behavior
Parasympathetic Division
18. Philosophical position that holds that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind.
Dermatome
Dualism
Species
Materialism
19. Condition in which a person is alive but unable to communicate or to function independently at even the most basic level.
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Common Ancestor
Vertebrae
Tegmentum
20. Major structure of the forebrain - consisting of two virtually identical hemispheres (left and right) and responsible for most conscious behavior.
Clinical Trial
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Stroke
Cerebrum
21. That holds that both a nonmaterial mind and the material body contribute to behavior.
Culture
Tegmentum
Dualism
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
22. Map of the neocortex based on the organization - structure - and distribution of the cells.
Cytoarchitectonic map
Cerebellum
Frontal Lobe
Hemisphere
23. Three layers of protective tissue - dura mater - arachnoid - and pia mater - that encase the brain and spinal cord.
Hemisphere
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Neuron
Meninges
24. Condition in which a person can display some rudimentary behaviors - such as smiling - or utter a few words but is otherwise not conscious.
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Bilateral Symmetry
Vertebrae
Ganglia
25. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.
Afferent
Brainstem
White Matter
Limbic system
26. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Thalamus
Bilateral Symmetry
Basal ganglia
Nerve
27. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.
White Matter
Hominid
Cladogram
Central Nervous System (CNS)
28. General term referring to primates that walk upright - including all forms of humans - living and extinct.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Law of Bell and Magendie
Parasympathetic Division
Hominid
29. Cerebral cortex where visual processing begins - lying at the back of the brain ad beneath the occipital bone.
Occipital Lobe
Neuroplasticity
Cerebellum
Cladogram
30. Cortex that functions in connection with hearing - language - and musical abilities and lies below the lateral fissure - beneath the temporal bone at the side of the lobe.
Clinical Trial
Mind-Body Problem
Cladogram
Temporal Lobe
31. A specialized 'nerve cell' engaged in information processing.
Sulcus (Sulci)
Encephalization quotient
Neuron
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
32. Areas of the nervous system composed predominantly of cell bodies and blood vessels that function either to collect and modify information or to support this activity.
Parietal Lobe
Mind
Gray Matter
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
33. Central part of the brain that contains neural circuits for hearing and seeing as well as orienting movements.
Mentalism
Hemisphere
Midbrain
Parkinson's Disease
34. Phylogenetic tree that branches repeatedly - suggesting a taxonomy of organisms based on the time sequence in which evolutionary branches arise.
Cladogram
Common Ancestor
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Tegmentum
35. Disorder of the motor system correlated with a loss of dopamine in the brain an characterized by tremors - muscular rigidity - and a reduction in voluntary movement.
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36. Movement related to sensory inputs - such as turning the head to see the source of a sound.
Gyrus (Gyri)
Dermatome
Tectum
Orienting movement
37. Midbrain area in which nuclei and fiber pathways are mixed - producing a netlike appearance; associated with sleep-wake behavior and behavioral arousal.
Reticular Formation
Chordate
Thalamus
Ventricle
38. Harry Jerison's quantitative measure of brain size obtained from the ratio of actual brain size to expected brain size - according to the principle of proper mass - for an animal of a particular body size.
Cladogram
Spinal Cord
Encephalization quotient
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
39. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.
Hemisphere
Nerve Set
Stroke
Materialism
40. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.
Culture
Segmentation
Nerve
Frontal Lobe
41. Wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head..
Materialism
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Hindbrain
Nerve Set
42. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.
Dermatome
Segmentation
Efferent
Ventricle
43. Hypothesis that the movements that we make and those that we perceive in others are essential features of our conscious behavior.
Cytoarchitectonic map
Diencephalon
Embodied Consciousness
Gyrus (Gyri)
44. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.
Cerebellum
Bilateral Symmetry
Mind-Body Problem
Natural Selection
45. All the neurons in the body located outside the brain and the spinal cord; provides sensory and motor connections to and from the CNS
Tectum
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Tegmentum
Mind
46. Disorder of the basal ganglia characterized by tics; involuntary vocalizations (including curse words and animal sounds); and odd - involuntary movements of the body; especially of the face and head.
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47. Outer layer of brain-tissue surface composed of neurons; the human cerebral cortex is heavily folded.
Parietal Lobe
Inhibition
Mind-Body Problem
Cerebral Cortex
48. Roof (area above the ventricle) of the midbrain; its functions are sensory processing - particular visual and auditory - and the production of orienting movements.
Temporal Lobe
Tectum
Hypothalamus
Common Ancestor
49. Collection of nerve cells that function somewhat like a brain.
Embodied Consciousness
Ganglia
Parietal Lobe
Excitation
50. Decrease in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Encephalization quotient
Culture
Nerve Set
Inhibition