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| The primary difference between biological psychologists and neuroscientists is that biological psychologists place greater emphasis on studying: |
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| The notion that the mind and body are different in substance is called: |
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| A monist believes that mind and body are: |
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| Solipsism is the position that: |
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| I alone have consciousness |
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| Which specialist is most likely to work with people with brain damage? |
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A strand of DNA serves as a template for the synthesis of:
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| Color vision deficiency is more common in males than in females because it is controlled by a: |
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| For a group of individuals the heritability score for a particular trait is .5. What can be said about the heredity of this trait? |
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| Heredity differences account for some of the observed differences for this group of individuals |
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| What best describes the concept of evolution? |
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| Reproduction of the fittest |
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| Santiago Ramon y Cajal demonstrated that: |
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| Neurons are separate from one another |
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| What chemicals flow most freely across a cell membrane? |
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| water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide |
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| Some dendrites contain additional short outgrowths. What are these outgrowths called? |
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| gaps in the myelin of axons |
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| What is the characteristic of glial cells in the human brian? |
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| Thery are more numerous than neurons |
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| Compared to passive transport the major disadvantage of active transport is that it: |
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| Requires expenditure of energy |
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| The membrane of a neuron is composed of ___ with ____ embedded in them. |
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| When a neuron's membrane is at rest, the concentration gradient tends to move sodium____ the cell and the electrical gradient tends to move it ___ the cell. |
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| At the peak of the action potential, the electrical gradient of potassium: |
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| Pushes potassium out of the cell |
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| The presence of myelin and the diameter of the ason: |
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| Affects the speed of an action potential |
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| Sherrington found that repeated stiumuli within a brief time have a cumulative effect. He referred to this phenomenon as: |
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| What ordinarily prevents extensor muscles from contracting at the same time as flexor muscles? |
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| inhibitory synapses in the spinal cord |
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| What determines whether a neuron has an action potential? |
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| the combined effects of EPSPs and IPSPs |
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| In addition to influencing other neurons, __dilates the nearby blood vessels, thereby increasing blood flow to that area of the brain |
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| The amino acid tryptophan, is the precursor to? |
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| An action potential causes the release of neurotransmitters by: |
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| Opening calcium pores in the membrane |
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| A receptor can directly open a channel, exerting an ___ effect or it can produce slower but longer___effects. |
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| Neurotransmitter is to __ as cyclic AMP is to _____' |
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| First messenger, second messenger |
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| Releasing hormones are synthesized in the ___, and released in the____. |
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| Hypothalamus, anterior pituitary |
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| What would be the effect of a drug that inhibits the action of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase? |
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| Prolonged action of acetylcholine at its synapses |
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