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,Test Bank For Neuroscience: Exploring The Brain, 5th Edition
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Table of Contents:
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Part 1 Foundations
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Chapter 1 Neuroscience: Past, Present, and Future
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Chapter 2 Neurons and Glia
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Chapter 3 The Neuronal Membrane at Rest
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Chapter 4 The Action Potential
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Chapter 5 Synaptic Transmission
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Chapter 6 Neurotransmitter Systems
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Chapter 7 The Structure of the Nervous System
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Appendix An Illustrated Guide to Human Neuroanatomy
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Part 2 Sensory and Motor Systems
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Chapter 8 The Chemical Senses
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Chapter 9 The Eye U 0 U 0 U0


Chapter 10 The Central Visual System
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Chapter 11 The Auditory and Vestibular Systems
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Chapter 12 The Somatic Sensory System
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Chapter 13 Spinal Control of Movement
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Chapter 14 Brain Control of Movement
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Part 3 The Brain and Behavior
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Chapter 15 Chemical Control of the Brain and Behavior
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Chapter 16 Motivation
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Chapter 17 Sex and the Brain
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Chapter 18 Brain Mechanisms of Emotion
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Chapter 19 Brain Rhythms and Sleep
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Chapter 20 Language U 0 U 0


Chapter 21 The Resting Brain, Attention, and Consciousne
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Chapter 22 Mental Illness
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Part 4 The Changing Brain
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Chapter 23 Wiring the Brain
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Chapter 24 Memory Systems
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Chapter 25 Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memo
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,Chapter 1: Neuroscience: Past, Present, and Future Neuroscie
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nce: Exploring the Brain, 5th Edition Bear Test Bank
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1. Why are a broad perspective and an interdisciplinary approach required for
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A) Understanding the brain is a focused area in natural science with the brain serv
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ing as the common point of focus.
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B) Understanding the brain requires knowledge about many things, from the struct U0 U0 U0 U0 U0 U0 U0 U0 U0 U0


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C) Understanding the brain requires the study of the different species of the brain.
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D) Understanding the brain requires the analysis of one approach at a time to yiel
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d a new synthesis.
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2. Galen's study of sheep brains was the basis for a theory of brain function that prev
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for almost 1500 years. Which of the following represents this view? Choose the cor
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A) The heart as the center of intellect and the brain as the cooling system
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3. What is ―mind–brain problem‖? Choose the correct option.
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A) Individually, human mental capacities exist in the mind that is outside the b
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rain.
B) The mind is the same as the brain.
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C) Both animals and people possess intellect and a God-given soul.
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D) The pineal gland is a spiritual entity.
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4. What notion was displaced by the concept of nerves being described as wires? Ch
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A) Nerves are channels that communicate with the brain by the movement of fluid
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s.
B) Muscles can be twitched when nerves are stimulated electrically and the brain it
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self may generate electricity.
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C) Signals to the muscles causing movement use the same wires as those that regis
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ter sensations from the skin.
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D) Nerves conduct electrical signals to and from the brain.
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5. The combined work of Bell and Magendie revealed a fundamental fact about the sp
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inal nerves. Choose the correct option.
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A) Spinal nerves are myelinated. U0 U0 U0


B) Spinal nerves are bundles of sensory and motor nerves, and in each sensory an
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d motor nerve fiber, transmission is strictly one-way.
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C) Spinal nerves are not hollow tubes carrying fluid.
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D) Both humans and animals have spinal nerves.
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, 6. For what purpose did Franz Joseph Gall study the dimensions of the human h
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ead?
Choose the correct option.
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A) To understand the propensity for certain personality traits
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B) To demonstrate equal participation of all regions of the brain in all cerebr
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C) To show that nerves conduct electrical signals to and from the brain
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D) To show that unique human mental capabilities exist outside the brain
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7. On what basis did Broca defend functional localization of the brain? Choose the co
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rrect option.
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A) By establishing a relationship between the production of speech and the right f
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C) By establishing a relationship between the production of speech and the left fro
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D) By establishing a relationship between the production of speech and the cerebel
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8. To whom can we attribute the theory that behavior is among the heritable traits tha
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t can develop? Choose the correct option.
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9. Which of the following is a correct explanation of a disorder that affects the ner
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vous system? Choose the correct option.
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A) Cerebral palsy is a motor disorder caused by damage to the cerebrum before, d
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B) Epilepsy is a progressive disease that affects nerve conduction, characterized by
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episodes of weakness, lack of coordination, and speech disturbance.
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C) Stroke involves a loss of feeling and movement caused by traumatic damage to
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the spinal cord.
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D) Alzheimer's disease is a severe psychotic illness characterized by delusions, hall
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