Introduction Behavioral Neuroscience Test Bank Chapter 6 Complete Exam Prep Resource 2025/ 2026

Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience
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Chapter 6: Vision
Multiple Choice

1. The cornea and lens:
A. bend and focus incoming light onto the retina.*
B. reflect incoming light away from the retina.
C. allow light to pass to the retina unaltered.
D. are located at the back of the eye.

Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering

2. Imagine you are recording from the outer segment of a photoreceptor. In the dark, what
would its resting potential be?
A. +40 mV*
B. -70 mV
C. 350 nm
D. 12 amps

Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering

3. Imagine a photoreceptor with abundant cGMP. This photoreceptor most likely has:
A. open Na+ channels and is depolarized.
B. closed Na+ channels and is depolarized.
C. open Na+ channels and is hyperpolarized.*
D. closed Na+ channels and is hyperpolarized.

Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding

4. Dogs and cats:
A. cannot see colors.
B. can only see green.
C. see color just like humans do.
D. see color but differently than humans do.*

Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering

5. Visual information flows in which order and direction:
A. Photoreceptorsbipolar cellsretinal ganglion cells*
B. Photoreceptorshorizontal cellsbipolar cellsamacrine cellsretinal ganglion cells
C. Retinal ganglion cells bipolar cells photoreceptors
D. Photoreceptorshorizontal cells amacrine cells


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Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering

6. Which of the following will cause an on-center retinal ganglion cell to fire the most?
A. Light in the center of its receptive field*
B. Light in the surround of its receptive field
C. Light in both the center and surround of its receptive field
D. Dark in the center of its receptive field

Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding

7. Visual information from the right eye is transmitted to which region?
A. Right LGN
B. Left LGN
C. Both right and left LGN*
D. Right V1

Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding

8. Imagine a brain injury that damaged the right optic tract. Where would the visual deficits
be?
A. Loss of right eye vision
B. Loss of left eye vision
C. Loss of left visual field*
D. Loss of right visual field

Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding

9. Binocular neurons in V1:
A. respond only to right or left eye.
B. respond equally to right and left eye.
C. respond to both right and left eye but can be more sensitive to one eye over the other.*
D. only respond to high frequency spatial gratings.

Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering

10. Neurons in V1 are spatially arranged in the tissue according to:
A. where in the retina information is coming from.
B. ocular dominance.
C. orientation pinwheels.
D. All of these*

Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding

11. Which of the following can describe a receptive field in the visual system?

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