Psychology - Brain Test

A message traveling through neurons begins with action potential, goes to the terminal, then the cell body, then the axon, then the dendrite, and across the synapse.

• True

• False

During the 'fight or flight' response, your body releases adrenaline, allowing you to escape or protect yourself from a perceived threat.

• True

• False

Filbert Garrison had his frontal lobe damaged in a railway construction accident and is used by psychologists as evidence for the frontal lobe being responsible for personality traits.

• True

• False

Lobotomies were performed to cure mental disorders.

• True

• False

You are born with all the neurons and synapses you will ever have; connections do not change over time.

• True

• False

Damage to the Myelin Sheath results in a slower and more sporadic transmission of messages and is the cause of Multiple Sclerosis.

• True

• False

The nervous system is divided into two main parts:

• the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system

• the brain and the spinal cord

• the fight or flight systems

• the neuron and synapses

The central nervous system is composed of

• the motor and sensory nerves

• the brain and the spinal cord

• the lobes and the cortexes

• the inner organs and their nerves

A synapse is

• where neurons touch

• the start of a message sent by a neuron

• the end of a message sent by a neuron

• the space between neurons

Electrodes and EEGs are _____ effective.

• extremely

• not very

• absolutely

• moderately