/* */

Test your basic knowledge |

Behavioral Neuroscience

Subject : health-sciences
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head..






2. 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.






3. Evolutionarily the newest part of the brain; coordinates advanced cognitive functions such as thinking - planning - and language; contains the limbic system - basal ganglia - and the neocortex.






4. A group of cells forming a cluster that can be identified with special stains to form a functional grouping.






5. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.






6. One of four cavities in the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain and may play a role in maintaining brain metabolism.






7. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.






8. Movement related to sensory inputs - such as turning the head to see the source of a sound.






9. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.






10. Synonym for mind - an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior.






11. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.






12. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.






13. Decrease in the activity of a neuron or brain area.






14. General term referring to primates that walk upright - including all forms of humans - living and extinct.






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.






16. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.






17. Large collection of axons coursing together within the central nervous system.






18. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.






19. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.






20. 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.






21. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.






22. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated and projected into the appropriate region of the neocortex.






23. Condition in which a person can display some rudimentary behaviors - such as smiling - or utter a few words but is otherwise not conscious.






24. Major structure of the forebrain - consisting of two virtually identical hemispheres (left and right) and responsible for most conscious behavior.






25. Major structure of the brainstem specialized for coordinating and learning skilled movements. In large-brained animals - it may also have a role in the coordination of other mental processes.






26. Group of organisms that can interbreed.






27. Part of the central nervous system encased within the vertebrae (spinal column) tat provides most of the connections between the brain and the rest of the body.






28. Forbearer from which two or more lineages or family groups arise and so is ancestral to both groups.






29. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.






30. Idea that selection for improved brain cooling through increased blood circulation in the brains of early hominids enabled the brain to grow larger.






31. Quandary of explaining a nonmaterial mind in command of a material body.






32. The bones - or segments - that form the spinal column.






33. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.






34. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.






35. A specialized 'nerve cell' engaged in information processing.






36. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.






37. Neurosurgery in which electrodes implanted in the brain stimulate a targeted area with a low-voltage electrical current to facilitate behavior.






38. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.






39. Sudden appearance of neurological symptom as a result of severe interruption of blood flow.






40. Cerebral Cortex often generally characterized as performing the brain's 'executive' functions - such as decision making - lying anterior to the central sulcus and beneath the frontal bone of the skull.






41. Condition in which a person is alive but unable to communicate or to function independently at even the most basic level.






42. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.






43. 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.






44. Subcortical forebrain nuclei that coordinate voluntary movements of the limbs and body; connected to the thalamus and to the midbrain.






45. Disparate forebrain structures lying between the neocortex and the brainstem that form a functional system controlling affective and motivated behaviors and certain forms of memory; includes cingulate cortex - amygdala - hippocampus - among other str






46. Cerebral cortex where visual processing begins - lying at the back of the brain ad beneath the occipital bone.






47. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.






48. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.






49. Collection of nerve cells that function somewhat like a brain.






50. One of a set of 12 nerve pairs that control sensory and motor functions of the head - neck - and internal organs.






//