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NEUROSCIENCE/6TH EDITION b b




By: Dale Purves, George J. Augustine, David Fitzpatrick, William C. Hall, Anthony-Samuel LaMantia
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TEST BANK b b

,Neuroscience / Edition 6 by Dale Purves Test Bank
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Table of Contents:
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Chapter 1. Studying the Nervous System
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Chapter 2. Electrical Signals of Nerve Cells
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Chapter 3. Voltage-Dependent Membrane Permeability
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Chapter 4. Ion Channels and Transporters
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Chapter 5. Synaptic Transmission
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Chapter 6. Neurotransmitters and Their Receptors
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Chapter 7. Molecular Signaling within Neurons
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Chapter 8. Synaptic Plasticity
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Chapter 9. The Somatosensory System: Touch and Proprioception
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Chapter 10. Pain
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Chapter 11. Vision: The Eye
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Chapter 12. Central Visual Pathways
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Chapter 13. The Auditory System
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Chapter 14. The Vestibular System
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Chapter 15. The Chemical Senses
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Chapter 16. Lower Motor Neuron Circuits and Motor Control
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Chapter 17. Upper Motor Neuron Control of the Brainstem and Spinal Cord
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Chapter 18. Modulation of Movement by the Basal Ganglia
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Chapter 19. Modulation of Movement by the Cerebellum
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Chapter 20. Eye Movements and Sensory Motor Integration
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Chapter 21. The Visceral Motor System
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Chapter 22. Early Brain Development
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Chapter 23. Construction of Neural Circuits
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Chapter 24. Circuit Differentiation: Intrinsic Factors and Sex
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Differences Chapter 25. Experience-Dependent Plasticity in the
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Developing Brain Chapter 26. Repair and Regeneration in the
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Nervous System
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Chapter 27. Cognitive Functions and the Organization of the Cerebral Cortex
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Chapter 28. Cortical States
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Chapter 29. Attention
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Chapter 30. Memory
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Chapter 31. Emotion
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Chapter 32. Thinking, Planning, and Deciding
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Chapter 33. Speech and Language
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Chapter 34. Development and Evolution of Cognitive Functions
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Neuroscience, Sixth Edition bb bb



Purves • Augustine • Fitzpatrick • Hall • LaMantia • Mooney • Platt • White
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Chapter 1: Studying the Nervous System bb bb bb bb bb




Multiple Choice
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1. Which part of DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA?
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a. Exon
b. Intron
c. Promoter
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e. Regulatory DNA bb



Answer: a
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Textbook Reference: Genetics and Genomics
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Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
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2. Genomics is the analysis of bb bb bb bb



a. coding DNA sequences for a species.
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b. regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism and a species.
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c. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for a species.
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d. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism.
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e. coding and regulatory DNA of an individual organism or a species.
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Answer: e
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Textbook Reference: Genetics and Genomics
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Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
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3. Which of Camillo Golgi’s contributions enabled Santiago Ramón y Cajal to make
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observations that suggested that nerve cells are discrete entities?
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a. Articulation of the neuron doctrine bb bb bb bb



b. Identifying the organelle later called the Golgi apparatus
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c. Development of a staining method based on impregnation with silver salts
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d. Improving the understanding of the pathophysiology of malaria
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e. Articulation of the reticular theory of nerve cell communication
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Answer: c
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Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
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Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
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4. The major proponent(s) of the neuron doctrine was(were)
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a. Camillo Golgi. bb



b. Santiago Ramón y Cajal. bb bb bb



c. Charles Sherrington.
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d. Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Charles Sherrington.
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, e. Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
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Answer: d
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Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
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Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
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5. Which function is a characteristic primarily of neurons only, and not glia?
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a. Transmits action potentials bb bb



b. Supports electrical signals bb bb



c. Repairs the nervous system bb bb bb



d. Prevents regeneration of the nervous system
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e. Produces myelin bb



Answer: a
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Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
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Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
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6. In which part of a neuron would most of the endoplasmic reticulum be concentrated?
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a. Postsynaptic terminal bb



b. Presynaptic terminal bb



c. Axon
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e. Dendrite
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Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
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7. Which intracellular component facilitates the processes of endocytosis and exocytosis
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underlying synaptic communication?
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a. Mitochondria
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c. Cytoskeleton
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e. Nucleus
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c
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Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
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8. Most neurons havebb bb



a. one axon hillock (initial segment).
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b. multiple axon hillocks (initial segments).
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c. one dendrite.
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d. one axon hillock (initial segment) and one dendrite.
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e. multiple axon hillocks (initial segments) and one dendrite.
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Answer: a
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Textbook Reference: Neurons bb bb



Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
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