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Biological Bases of Behavior Review Packet
1. What is neuroanatomy?
2. An individual nerve cell is called a _________________.
3. List five parts of a neuron and explain their function:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
4. What is the gap between 2 neurons called?
5. The chemical messengers that travel between neurons are called
____________________.
6. A neuron either fires or it doesn’t. There is no in between. This phenomenon is
called _______________________________.
7. Another name for a neural impulse is an ______________________________.
8. Explain how neural communication is both an electrical and chemical process.
9. Draw and label a neuron.
10. What neurotransmitter is involved in pain control?
11. What neurotransmitter is associated with both Parkinson’s disease (too little) and
Schizophrenia (too much)?
12. Serotonin is most closely related to ______________________________.
13. What neurotransmitter is associated with motor movement and has been linked to
Alzheimer’s disease?
14. How many types of neurons do we have?
15. Efferent neurons also known as _____________ neurons carry messages from the
CNS to the rest of the body.
16. Interneurons are found only within the ______________ and
_________________.
17. Sensory neurons or ________________ neurons carry messages from the body to
the CNS.
18. The central nervous system consists of the ______________ and
_______________.
19. The peripheral nervous system is made up of all
______________________________________.
20. The PNS can be split into 2 branches the _____________________ and
_________________________.
21. Which branch of the nervous stem deals with voluntary muscle movements?
22. Which branch of the nervous system deals with involuntary bodily functions?
23. The autonomic nervous system can be broken down into the
___________________ and __________________________ nervous systems.
24. Which branch prepares the body for stressful situations?
25. Which branch brings the body back to homeostasis?
26. Describe how the three types of neurons are used to communicate the pain from a
bee sting on your ankle. (start with the sting end with the feeling of pain in your
toe)
27. What is a spinal reflex and how is it different than most pain signals?
28. Which method involves injecting a radioactive form of glucose to measure what
the different functions of brain areas are?
29. Which two methods only give us information about the structure of the brain?
30. The destruction of brain tissue is called _______________________.
31. What is so great about a functional MRI?
32. What are the three structures of the hindbrain?
33. Which part of the hindbrain is involved in coordination and balance?
34. Which part of the hindbrain controls our vital functions?
35. What are the major parts of the forebrain?
36. Which part of the forebrain is the sensory relay station of the brain?
37. What is the only sense not routed through that area?
38. Which part of the brain controls our hunger and sex drives?
39. Which part of the forebrain is involved with memory formation but not storage?
40. What is the band of neural fibers that connect the two hemispheres of the brain
called?
41. List the four lobes of the brain.
a.
b.
c.
d.
42. Vision is based in the __________________ lobe.
43. The sensory cortex is in the _______________ lobe.
44. The motor cortex is in the ________________ lobe.
45. Hearing is based in the ___________________ lobe.
46. What is the difference between Broca’s area and Wernike’s area (both function
and location)?
47. What does plasticity mean?
48. What part of the brain controls the endocrine system?
49. What are the chemical messengers of the endocrine system called?
50. Where are sex hormones produced?
51. What gland is known as the master gland?
52. Explain the difference between genes, chromosomes, and DNA.
53. What is the importance of identical twins reared apart studies?
54. Our sex is determined by the _______ pair of chromosomes.
55. Down’s syndrome is an abnormality on the ____________ pair of chromosomes.
56. Draw the organizational chart of the Nervous System.