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Integration of Nervous System Functions
Sensation
Skeletal
Muscle
Control
Brainstem
Function
Other Brain
Functions
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FINAL ROUND
Sensation:
$100 Question
These types of receptors respond to pain
stimuli:
a. chemoreceptors
b. mechanoreceptors
c. nociceptors
d. photoreceptors
e. thermoreceptors
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Sensation:
$100 Answer
These types of receptors respond to pain
stimuli:
a. chemoreceptors
b. mechanoreceptors
c. nociceptors
d. photoreceptors
e. thermoreceptors
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Sensation:
$200 Question
This best describes the function of Ruffini
end organs:
a. continuous touch or pressure
b. itch, tickle
c. light touch
d. vibration
e. two-point discrimination
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Sensation:
$200 Answer
This best describes the function of Ruffini
end organs:
a. continuous touch or pressure
b. itch, tickle
c. light touch
d. vibration
e. two-point discrimination
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Sensation:
$300 Question
This tract is involved in reflexes that turn
the head and eyes toward a point of
cutaneous stimulation:
a. spinoolivary
b. spinothalamic
c. spinotectal
d. spinocerebellar
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Sensation:
$300 Answer
This tract is involved in reflexes that turn
the head and eyes toward a point of
cutaneous stimulation:
a. spinoolivary
b. spinothalamic
c. spinotectal
d. spinocerebellar
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Sensation:
$400 Question
The largest area of the somatic sensory
cortex contains sensory neurons
associated with this region of the body:
a. arm
b. face
c. genitals
d. leg
e. thigh
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Sensation:
$400 Answer
The largest area of the somatic sensory
cortex contains sensory neurons
associated with this region of the body:
a. arm
b. face
c. genitals
d. leg
e. thigh
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Sensation:
$500 Question
Your patient is experiencing pain radiating
from the left shoulder down the arm. He is
most likely having referred pain from this:
a. gall stones
b. appendicitis
c. constipation
d. heart attack
e. kidney stones
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Sensation:
$500 Answer
Your patient is experiencing pain radiating
from the left shoulder down the arm. He is
most likely having referred pain from this:
a. gall stones
b. appendicitis
c. constipation
d. heart attack
e. kidney stones
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Skeletal Muscle Control:
$100 Question
The primary motor area is located in this
__________ gyrus of each __________
lobe:
a. precentral; frontal
b. precentral, parietal
c. postcentral; frontal
d. postcentral; parietal
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Skeletal Muscle Control:
$100 Answer
The primary motor area is located in this
__________ gyrus of each __________
lobe:
a. precentral; frontal
b. precentral, parietal
c. postcentral; frontal
d. postcentral; parietal
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Skeletal Muscle Control:
$200 Question
The motivation and foresight to plan and
initiate movements is located in this area:
a. premotor area
b. prefrontal area
c. primary motor area
d. Wernicke's area
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Skeletal Muscle Control:
$200 Answer
The motivation and foresight to plan and
initiate movements is located in this area:
a. premotor area
b. prefrontal area
c. primary motor area
d. Wernicke's area
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Skeletal Muscle Control:
$300 Question
These tracts innervate the head muscles:
a. corticospinal
b. rubrospinal
c. vestibulospinal
d. corticobulbar
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Skeletal Muscle Control:
$300 Answer
These tracts innervate the head muscles:
a. corticospinal
b. rubrospinal
c. vestibulospinal
d. corticobulbar
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Skeletal Muscle Control:
$400 Question
One major effect of the basal nuclei is this:
a. to act as a comparator for motor
coordination
b. to decrease muscle tone and
inhibit unwanted muscular activity
c. affect emotions and emotional
responses to odors
d. modulate pain sensations
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Skeletal Muscle Control:
$400 Answer
One major effect of the basal nuclei is this:
a. to act as a comparator for motor
coordination
b. to decrease muscle tone and
inhibit unwanted muscular activity
c. affect emotions and emotional
responses to odors
d. modulate pain sensations
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Skeletal Muscle Control:
$500 Question
Damage to the cerebellum can result in all
of these except:
a. balance impairment
b. overshoot when touching an object
c. increased muscle tone
d. tremors in hands when trying to
perform a task
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Skeletal Muscle Control:
$500 Answer
Damage to the cerebellum can result in all
of these except:
a. balance impairment
b. overshoot when touching an object
c. increased muscle tone
d. tremors in hands when trying to
perform a task
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Brainstem Function:
$100 Question
The following cranial nerves have sensory
nuclei in the brainstem except this:
a. I (olfactory)
b. VI (abducent)
c. VII (facial)
d. IX (glossopharyngeal)
e. X (vagus)
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Brainstem Function:
$100 Answer
The following cranial nerves have sensory
nuclei in the brainstem except this:
a. I (olfactory)
b. VI (abducent)
c. VII (facial)
d. IX (glossopharyngeal)
e. X (vagus)
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Brainstem Function:
$200 Question
The reticular activating system can be
stimulated by inputs from this:
a. cerebral cortex
b. limbic system
c. visual stimuli
d. olfactory stimuli
e. all of these
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Brainstem Function:
$200 Answer
The reticular activating system can be
stimulated by inputs from this:
a. cerebral cortex
b. limbic system
c. visual stimuli
d. olfactory stimuli
e. all of these
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Brainstem Function:
$300 Question
This statement of brainstem function is
true:
a. ascending and descending tracts
project through it
b. contains nuclei of cranial nerves
III-X and X
c. collateral branches of II project into
brainstem nuclei
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d. all are true
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Brainstem Function:
$300 Answer
This statement of brainstem function is
true:
a. ascending and descending tracts
project through it
b. contains nuclei of cranial nerves
III-X and X
c. collateral branches of II project into
brainstem nuclei
d. all are true
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Brainstem Function:
$400 Question
When food is in the mouth, a reflex is
stimulated between the motor nuclei of this
nerve and the trigeminal sensory nuclei to
trigger salivation:
a. VII (facial)
b. VIII (vestibulocochlear)
c. IX (glossopharyngeal)
d. X (vagus)
e. a and c
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Brainstem Function:
$400 Answer
When food is in the mouth, a reflex is
stimulated between the motor nuclei of this
nerve and the trigeminal sensory nuclei to
trigger salivation:
a. VII
b. VIII
c. IX
d. X
e. a and c
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Brainstem Function:
$500 Question
This somatic function of the brainstem
could be affected by a minor injury to the
vagus nerve except:
a. hoarseness
b. swallowing
c. coughing
d. chewing
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Brainstem Function:
$500 Answer
This somatic function of the brainstem
could be affected by a minor injury to the
vagus nerve except:
a. hoarseness
b. swallowing
c. coughing
d. chewing
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Other Brain Functions:
$100 Question
The right and left cerebral hemispheres
are separated by this broad band of tracts
at the base of the longitudinal fissure:
a. intermediate mass
b. corpus callosum
c. vermis
d. unmyelinated nuclei
e. thalamus
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Other Brain Functions:
$100 Answer
The right and left cerebral hemispheres
are separated by this broad band of tracts
at the base of the longitudinal fissure:
a. intermediate mass
b. corpus callosum
c. vermis
d. unmyelinated nuclei
e. thalamus
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Other Brain Functions:
$200 Question
This activity is mostly associated with the
left cerebral hemisphere in most people:
a. sensory input from the left side of
the body
b. mathematics and speech
c. spatial perception
d. recognition of faces
e. musical ability
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Other Brain Functions:
$200 Answer
This activity is mostly associated with the
left cerebral hemisphere in most people:
a. sensory input from the left side of
the body
b. mathematics and speech
c. spatial perception
d. recognition of faces
e. musical ability
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Other Brain Functions:
$300 Question
The limbic system is most involved in the
control of this:
a. sleep and wakefulness
b. maintaining posture
c. higher intellectual processes
d. motor coordination
e. emotions and basic "drives"
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Other Brain Functions:
$300 Answer
The limbic system is most involved in the
control of this:
a. sleep and wakefulness
b. maintaining posture
c. higher intellectual processes
d. motor coordination
e. emotions and basic "drives"
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Other Brain Functions:
$400 Question
Joe is 45, and has not ridden a bicycle
since he was 18. To his amazement, he
gets on a bike and rides with little effort.
This kind of memory is called:
a. declarative (explicit)
b. procedural (implicit) or reflexive
c. sensory
d. short-term
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Other Brain Functions:
$400 Answer
Joe is 45, and has not ridden a bicycle
since he was 18. To his amazement, he
gets on a bike and rides with little effort.
This kind of memory is called:
a. declarative (explicit)
b. procedural (implicit) or reflexive
c. sensory
d. short-term
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Other Brain Functions:
$500 Question
Given these areas of the cerebral cortex:
1. auditory association area
2. Broca's area
3. premotor area
4. primary auditory area
5. primary motor area
6. Wernicke's area
Someone says "Hi" to you; you hear and
understand them and say "Hi" back to them.
This is the correct sequence below:
a. 4,1,2,6,3,5
c. 4,1,6,2,3,5
b. 4,1,6,2,5,3
d. 1,4,6,2,3,5
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Other Brain Functions:
$500 Answer
Given these areas of the cerebral cortex:
1. auditory association area
2. Broca's area
3. premotor area
4. primary auditory area
5. primary motor area
6. Wernicke's area
Someone says "Hi" to you; you hear and
understand them and say "Hi" back to them.
This is the correct sequence below:
a. 4,1,2,6,3,5
c. 4,1,6,2,3,5
b. 4,1,6,2,5,3
d. 1,4,6,2,3,5
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$100 Question
Temperatures above 47oC stimulate both
cold and pain receptors but do not
stimulate warm receptors.
True/False
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$100 Answer
Temperatures above 47oC stimulate both
cold and pain receptors but do not
stimulate warm receptors.
True/False
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$200 Question
Decreased sensitivity to a continued
stimulus is called this:
a. adaptation
b. projection
c. association
d. perception
e. sensation
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$200 Answer
Decreased sensitivity to a continued
stimulus is called this:
a. adaptation
b. projection
c. association
d. perception
e. sensation
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$300 Question
This ascending spinal pathway (tract)
carries light touch, pressure, tickle, and
itch sensations to the cerebral cortex:
a. anterior spinocerebellar
b. posterior spinocerebellar
c. spinothalamic
d. spinoolivary
e. spinotectal
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$300 Answer
This ascending spinal pathway (tract)
carries light touch, pressure, tickle, and
itch sensations to the cerebral cortex:
a. anterior spinocerebellar
b. posterior spinocerebellar
c. spinothalamic
d. spinoolivary
e. spinotectal
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$400 Question
Long-term memory involves this:
a. a change in the cytoskeleton of
neurons
b. movement of calcium into the
neuron
c. increase in glutamate release by
presynaptic neurons
d. specific protein synthesis
e. all of the above
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$400 Answer
Long-term memory involves this:
a. a change in the cytoskeleton of
neurons
b. movement of calcium into the
neuron
c. increase in glutamate release by
presynaptic neurons
d. specific protein synthesis
e. all of the above
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Grab Bag:
$500 Question
This is an effect of aging on the nervous
system:
a. an increased sense of two-point
discrimination
b. identify objects by touch more easily
c. decreased awareness of tactile
stimulation
d. reduction in the number of free nerve
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endings
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$500 Answer
This is an effect of aging on the nervous
system:
a. an increased sense of two-point
discrimination
b. identify objects by touch more easily
c. decreased awareness of tactile
stimulation
d. reduction in the number of free nerve
endings
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FINAL ROUND Question
A student is hooked up to an EEG while
taking an exam, and she is thinking
intensely about the answer to a question.
The types of brain waves on the EEG are
most likely these:
a. alpha waves
b. beta waves
c. delta waves
d. theta waves
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FINAL ROUND Answer
A student is hooked up to an EEG while
taking an exam, and she is thinking
intensely about the answer to a question.
The types of brain waves on the EEG are
most likely these:
a. alpha waves
b. beta waves
c. delta waves
d. theta waves
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