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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
14TH EDITION


CHAPTER NO. 01: THE CELLULAR FOUNDATIONS OF BEHAVIOR


1. The blood–brain barrier is made up of closely packed glial cells.
a. True
b. False
Answer: False
2. Glia have dendrites and axons.
a. True
b. False
Answer: False
3. Schwann cells and oligodendrocytes produce myelin.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
4. The primary role of glial cells is to act like “glue” or scaffolding to support the neurons.
a. True
b. False
Answer: False
5. Microglia removes viruses, fungi, and dead cells from the brain.
a. True
b. False
Answer:True
6. Other things being equal, myelinated axons conduct impulses faster than unmyelinated ones
do.

,a. True
b. False
Answer: True
7. Astrocytes synchronize the activity of a group of neurons.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
8. Back-propagation of the action potential into the dendrite of the sending neuron facilitates
changes associated with learning.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
9. When an action potential starts, it back-propagates into the cell body and its dendrites.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
10. Neurons are distinguished from other cells by their shape.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
11. People inherit all their mitochondria from their mother.
a. True
b. False

Answer: True

12. Most chemicals pass freely through the membrane of a neuron.
a. True
b. False
Answer: False
13. Dendritic spines increase the area available for synapses.
a. True

,b. False
Answer: True
14. The brain uses more energy and oxygen than all other organs combined.
a. True
b. False
Answer: False
15. An axon indicates the strength of a stimulus by altering the amplitude or velocity of its action
potentials.
a. True
b. False
Answer: False
16. When people try to imagine something “in their mind’s eye,” some have a detailed
experience, and some have no experience at all.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
17. Most neuropsychologists have a mixture of psychological and medical training.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
18. People typically use only 10 percent of their brain.
a. True
b. False
Answer: False
19. The all-or-none law applies to both axons and dendrites.
a. True
b. False
Answer: False
20. Most research laboratories are headed by someone with a master’s degree.
a. True
b. False

, Answer: False
21. The number of neurons is nearly the same for all healthy adult humans.
a. True
b. False
Answer: False
22. When you see something, you send sight rays out of your eyes.
a. True
b. False

Answer: False

23. Action potentials occur in both axons and dendrites.
a. True
b. False
Answer: False
24. Sodium ions are always more concentrated outside a neuron membrane than inside.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
25. The greater the surface area of a dendrite, the more information it can receive from other
neurons.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True
26. It is possible to describe the same axon as both afferent and efferent.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True