Chapter 2: The Biology of Behavior

Which route best describes the path of an impulse through a neuron?

• dendrites to cell body to axon to terminal buttons

• axon to cell body to dendrites to terminal buttons

• dendrites to myelin sheath to cell body to axon

• cell body to dendrites to cell body to axon

An image of a tree flashes in the left visual field of a split-brain patient. A house flashes in the right visual field. The patient will say?

• "I saw a tree"

• "I saw a house"

• "I didn't see anything"

• "I saw a treehouse"

Rachel is walking home at midnight and sees a tiger in the street. Which system does this activate?

• Sympathetic nervous system

• Parasympathetic nervous system

• Endocrine system

• Digestive system

During soccer, Carlos was shoved into the goalpost. The back of his head smashed into the frame and he saw stars. Why?

• His frontal lobe got jolted

• His occipital lobe got jolted

• His parietal lobe got jolted

• His temporal lobe got jolted

Claire lost her vision then hearing then taste then sense of touch. An MRI revealed a tumor in her brain in which area?

• The amygdala

• The thalamus

• The reticular formation

• The cerebellum

The frontal lobe is responsible for

• reasoning, planning, impulse control

• hearing

• smell and taste

• vision

A patient is unable to speak as articulately as she could before her head injury. She most likely had damage to

• Wernicke's area

• Broca's area

• Skinner's area

• Homunculus

What is the synaptic gap?

• The space between the top of the spinal cord and the brainstem

• The space between a sending neuron and a receiving neuron

• The space between each of the lobes in the brain

• The space between each vertebrate in the spinal cord