Which of the following is an example of habituation?

    *a.    After a tone occurs many times, a person stops responding to it.
    b.    After repeated shocks, a person responds more strongly to the shock.
    c.    After a tone is repeatedly paired with a shock, a person responds more strongly to the tone.
    d.    After repeated shocks, a person stops responding to other stimuli.

Internal organs are to ________ as movement of the body is to ________.

    a.    striated muscles; skeletal muscles
    *b.    smooth muscles; striated muscles
    c.    antagonistic muscles; skeletal muscles
    d.    smooth muscles; rough muscles

Which of the following treatments would be most likely to help a patient starting several days after a stroke?

    *a.    Giving stimulant drugs combined with physical therapy.
    b.    Extensive bed rest.
    c.    Injecting a drug to block dopamine.
    d.    Administering tranquilizers.

Damage to the ventromedial tract would impair fine motor control.

True   
*False  

Synaptogenesis occurs throughout a person's lifetime.

*True   
False 

Bumps and depressions in the skull are closely related to how well developed the underlying brain areas are.

True  
*False

Most excitatory post-synaptic potentials result in an action potential.

True  
*False

If both parents are heterozygous, then all of their children should be homozygous.

True  
*False  

Damage to the ________ impairs performance on the delayed matching-to-sample and delayed nonmatching-to-sample tasks.

a. thalamus
b. parietal cortex
c. hypothalamus
*d. hippocampus

In infants, anesthetic drugs can increase:

a. myelination.
*b. apoptosis.
c. proliferation.
d. migration.

What does myelin cover?

a. All vertebrate axons and some invertebrate axons.
*b. Some axons in vertebrates and none in invertebrates.
c. All axons.
d. Most dendrites.

The UCR and the CR are always the same.

True  
*False  

Electrical stimulation of the primary somatosensory cortex results in muscle contractions in the body.

True  
*False  

The default program for developing neurons is to die.

*True  
False  

What are the two major pathways from the cerebral cortex for controlling movement?

a. sympathetic and parasympathetic
b. contralateral and ipsilateral
*c. dorsolateral and ventromedial
d. basal ganglia and limbic system