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






2. 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.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


3. Part of the PNS that regulates the functioning of internal organs and glands.






4. All the neurons in the body located outside the brain and the spinal cord; provides sensory and motor connections to and from the CNS






5. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.






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






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






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






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






10. Proposed nonmaterial entity responsible for intelligence - attention - awareness and consciousness.






11. Group of organisms that can interbreed.






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






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






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






15. Outer layer of brain-tissue surface composed of neurons; the human cerebral cortex is heavily folded.






16. 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.






17. Philosophical position that holds that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind.






18. A small protrusion or bump formed by the folding of the cerebral cortex.






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






24. Map of the neocortex based on the organization - structure - and distribution of the cells.






25. 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.






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






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






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






29. Phylogenetic tree that branches repeatedly - suggesting a taxonomy of organisms based on the time sequence in which evolutionary branches arise.






30. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.






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






32. Central part of the brain that contains neural circuits for hearing and seeing as well as orienting movements.






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. Part of the PNS that includes the cranial and spinal nerves to and from the muscles - joints - and skin that produce movement - transmit incoming sensory input - and inform the CNS about the position and movement of body parts.






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






37. 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.






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






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






40. Behavior that is characteristic of all members of a species.






41. 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






42. Midbrain area in which nuclei and fiber pathways are mixed - producing a netlike appearance; associated with sleep-wake behavior and behavioral arousal.






43. Roof (area above the ventricle) of the midbrain; its functions are sensory processing - particular visual and auditory - and the production of orienting movements.






44. Central structures of the brain - including the hindbrain - midbrain - thalamus - and hypothalamus - responsible for most unconscious behavior.






45. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.






46. Process in which maturation is delayed - and so an adult retains infant characteristics; idea derived from the observation that newly evolved species resemble the young of their common ancestors.






47. 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.






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






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






50. Wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head..