ch.3 launchpad quiz

monozygotic twins share ___ percent of their genes

100%

Functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) directly measures the:

activity of oxygenated hemoglobin in the blood in the brain and body.

neurons communicate with each other ____ at the _____

chemically; synapse

____ consist of strands of DNA wound around each other

chromosomes

The first stage of neural communication, _____, is the movement of the signal within a single neuron. _____ is the movement of a signal between neurons.

conduction;transmission

Functional neuroimaging techniques, such as PET and fMRI, allow researchers to _____ brain activity in certain areas with particular behaviors.

correlate

within a neuron, information is transmitted as a _____ from the dendrites to the cell body and throughout the axon

electrical signal

true or false: heritability is not dependent on environment

false

Which major area of the brain deals with information coming in from and going out through the spinal cord?

hindbrain

what two portions of your central nervous system could you survive with?

hindbrain and midbrain

An electroencephalogram is a beneficial tool for:

linking brain structures and regions to particular behavior responses

____ are activated when watching another animal's behavior and are involved in social behavior

mirror neurons

the benefit of using functional neuroimaging techniques is that they all researchers to:

observe dynamic activity of the brain as it happens during specific tasks

This area serves as a bridge from the cerebellum to the rest of the brain.

pons

The main focus of the nervous system is to

provide a large network of interacting nerve fibers passing information throughout the body

the thalamus receives information from the sensory systems including

sight tough taste sound

which method is the best to use to understand the response of an individual neuron to a stimulus?

single cell recording

spinal reflexes require input from

spinal cord

damage to this area of the brain could leave you unable to navigate through a room

tectum

A split-brain patient is shown a picture of a dog on the left side of a computer screen and a picture of a tree on the right side of a computer screen. When asked to say what object he saw, he will report a _____. When asked to use his right hand to draw the object he saw, he will draw a picture of a _____.

tree;tree