Week 2 quiz

Which of these statements is FALSE?

Each part of the body has the same degree of representation on the motor cortex.

______ blend and controls hormones that affect nutrition and infection?

Fat tissue

A number of antidepressant medications work to increase this neurotransmitter since low levels of it are linked to depression.

GABA

Which of these statements about the two hemispheres of the brain is TRUE?

The right hemisphere of the brain helps orchestrate our self-awareness.

Hernando suffers from schizophrenia. Because he has an excess of dopamine, it makes sense that medications used to treat this disorder would be dopamine:

antagonists.

Gabby, a split-brain patient, is seated in front of a screen. As she focuses on the middle of the screen, the image of a fork is briefly flashed on the RIGHT side of the screen. Gabby will:

be able to verbally name the object.

Dr. Gray studies the relative influence of heredity and environment on emotional intelligence. Dr. Gray's research belongs to the field of:

behavior genetics.

Evolutionary psychologists would be MOST likely to predict that:

children are more likely to be safely cared for by their biological fathers than by their stepfathers.

Marleen suffered a stroke in the underside of the right temporal lobe. Which brain function is likely to be affected?

facial recognition

An evolutionary psychologist would suggest that people are genetically predisposed to all of these EXCEPT to:

fear their parents.

Kevin is participating in a study in which he is placed inside a tube-shaped machine and then asked to look at photographs of people making various facial expressions. The experimenters explain that they are looking at areas of his brain that show increased blood flow, which would indicate higher levels of activity when he looks at the photographs. The device the researchers are utilizing is a(n):

functional MRI (fMRI).

The _____ directs essential survival functions, such as breathing, sleeping, and wakefulness, as well as coordination and balance

hindbrain

Using a(n) _____ researchers can examine the brain's magnetic fields, which help researchers understand how certain tasks influence brain activity based on the speed and strength of the magnetic field.

magnetoencephalography (MEG)

The _____ is responsible for heartbeat and breathing.

medulla

To obtain a scan using this technique, a patient is injected with (or ingests) a low and harmless dose of a short-lived radioactive glucose.

positron emission tomography (PET)