Test Bank for Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, Enhanced Edition (4th Edition) – Complete Exam Questions and Answers

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TEST BANK
NEUROSCIENCE:
Exploring the Brain
4th Edition, Mark Bear




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Test Bank For Neuroscience: Exploring The Brain, 4th 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 Gliad v d v dv dv




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 d v d v dv




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 d v d v




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 d v d v




Chapter 21 The Resting Brain, Attention, and Consciousness
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Chapter 22 Mental Illness d v d v dv




Part 4 The Changing Brain
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Chapter 23 Wiring the Brain
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Chapter 24 Memory Systems d v d v dv




Chapter 25 Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory
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Chapter 1: Neuroscience: Past, Present, and Future
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Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, 4th Edition Bear Test Bank
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1. Why are a broad perspective and an interdisciplinary approach required for
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understanding the brain? Choose the correct option. dv dv dv dv dv dv



A) Understanding the brain is a focused area in natural science with the brain serving
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B) Understanding the brain requires knowledge about many things, from the structure
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of the water molecule to the electrical and chemical properties of the brain.
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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 yield a
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2. Galen's study of sheep brains was the basis for a theory of brain function that prevailed
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for almost 1500 years. Which of the following represents this view? Choose the correct
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option.
A) The heart as the center of intellect and the brain as the cooling system
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B) Localization of brain function in the cerebrum and cerebellum
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C) Mind–brain duality
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D) Parceling the cerebrum into lobes
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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 brain.
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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? Choose
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the correct option.
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A) Nerves are channels that communicate with the brain by the movement of fluids.
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B) Muscles can be twitched when nerves are stimulated electrically and the brain itself
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C) Signals to the muscles causing movement use the same wires as those that register
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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 spinal
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A) Spinal nerves are myelinated.
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B) Spinal nerves are bundles of sensory and motor nerves, and in each sensory and
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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 head?
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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 cerebral
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functions
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 correct
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option.
A) dBy establishing a relationship between the production of speech and the right
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B) dBy establishing a relationship between the production of speech and the occipital
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lobe
C) dBy establishing a relationship between the production of speech and the left frontal
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lobe
D) dBy establishing a relationship between the production of speech and the cerebellum
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8. To whom can we attribute the theory that behavior is among the heritable traits that can
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develop? Choose the correct option.
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A) Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens
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B) Charles Darwin
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C) Gustav Fritsch and Edward Hitzig
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D) Franz Joseph Gall
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9. Which of the following is a correct explanation of a disorder that affects the nervous
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system? Choose the correct option.
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A) dCerebral palsy is a motor disorder caused by damage to the cerebrum before,
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during, or soon after birth. dv dv dv dv



B) dEpilepsy 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) dStroke involves a loss of feeling and movement caused by traumatic damage to the
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D) dAlzheimer's disease is a severe psychotic illness characterized by delusions,
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