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Chapter 1: Nerve Cells and Nerve Impulses
When the neuron s membrane is at ...,
When the membrane is at rest what...,
When the membrane is at rest what...
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Chapter 13.1: Lateralization and Language
In humans what happens to visual ...,
At the human optic chiasm which a...,
Under what condition can a split ...
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Chapter 12.4: Intelligence
In what way if any does the human...,
Of the following which correlates...,
In which way are men s and women ...
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Chapter 12.3: Storing Information in the Nervous System
What is true about a hebbian synapse,
Cells that fire together wire tog...,
Why is aplysia an appealing anima...
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Chapter 12.2: The Hippocampus and the Striatum
What is anterograde amnesia,
What was the status of working me...,
Which of the following was most s...
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Chapter 12.1: Learning, Memory, and Memory Loss
What evidence led lashley to draw...,
Whah assumption did lashley make ...,
Why did thompson conclude that ey...
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Chapter 11.3: Stress and Health
Which hormone does the alarm stag...,
How do the functions of the hpa a...,
How does mcewen s definition of s...
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Attack and Escape Behavoirs
Heritability of a tendency toward...,
How does the gene for the less ac...,
Aggressive behavior correlates wi...
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Chapter 11.1: What Is Emotion?
The parasympathetic nervous syste...,
According to the james lange theo...,
When researchers looked for brain...
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Chapter 10.2: Variations in Sexual Behavior
What is meant by the term sexual ...,
Evolutionary psychologists try to...,
Congenital adrenal hypertrophy re...
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Chapter 10.1: Sex and Hormones
What does the sry gene do,
Why is it impossible to have both...,
What is the main difference betwe...
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Chapter 9.3: Hunger
If someone lacks the gene for dig...,
Which of the following is true,
Which part of the body secretes cck
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Chapter 9.2: Thirst
Which of these happens after you ...,
What would happen as a result of ...,
What does vasopressin do
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Chapter 9.1: Temperature Regulation
What is meant by allotasis,
Well over half of human body s en...,
How do ectothermic animals regula...
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Chapter 8.3: Why Sleep? Why REM? Why Dreams?
Certain animal species have evolv...,
How do whales and dolphins get ox...,
When frigate birds spend weeks at...
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Chapter 8.2: Stages of Sleep and Brain Mechanisms
Of the following which shows the ...,
Sleep spindles in stage 2 sleep t...,
What do the high amplitude slow w...
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Chapter 2.1: Synapses
How well did sherrington s infere...,
Sherrington based his conclusion ...,
Although one pinch did not cause ...
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Chapter 2.2: Chemica Events at the Synapse
Loewi s evidence for chemical tra...,
Which of the following is not one...,
Which of these is not a catechola...
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Chapter 3.1: Structure of the Vertebrate Nervous System
What does ventral mean,
If two structures are both on the...,
Whah is a sulcus in the brain
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Chapter 3.2: The Cerebral Cortex
What is the main way in which mam...,
In which of the ways do primates ...,
What is the relationship between ...
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Chapter 3.3: Research Methods
The first demonstration that a br...,
Which of the following is a metho...,
What does the ontogenetic techniq...
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Chapter 4.1: Genetic and Evolution of Behavior
What is a sex linked gene,
What is a sex limited gene,
What does a microdeletion remove
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Chapter 4.2: Developmet of the Brain
In early brain development what i...,
Which parts of the cerebral corte...,
In which areas of the human brain...
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Chapter 4.3: Plasticity after Brain Damage
Tissue plasminogen activator tpa ...,
What would be the purpose of givi...,
Name two procedures that decrease...
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Chapter 5.1: Visual Coding
What happens when you see something,
What is the route from retinal re...,
Where does the optic nerve exit f...
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Chapter 5.2: How the Brain Processes Visual Information
What do horizontal cells in the r...,
In humans what crosses to the con...,
What is the function of lateral i...
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Chapter 5.3: Parallel Processing in the Visual Cortex
The ventral stream of the visual ...,
If someone can identify objects b...,
What is distinctive about visual ...
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Chapter 6.1: Audition
When ancient fish evolved into la...,
Where are the auditory receptors ...,
How do we identify a low pitched ...
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Chapter 6.2: The Mechanical Senses
The vestibular system is responsi...,
Under which of these circumstance...,
To what extent does the nervous s...
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Chapter 6.3: The Chemical Senses
What type of cell is a taste rece...,
Which of the observations provide...,
The receptors for sweet bitter an...
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Chapter 7.1: The Control of Movement
After acetylcholine causes a flex...,
What happened to a fish s movemen...,
Which of the following is true of...
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Chapter 7.2: Brain Mechanisms of Movement
What is the route from the motor ...,
A half second stimulation in the ...,
When a movement occurs which of t...
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Chapter 7.3: Movement Disorders
Deterioration of which axon leads...,
People with parkinson s disease s...,
Which of these chemicals damages ...
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Chapter 8.1: Rhythms of Waking and Sleeping
Workers on certain submarines wor...,
Why do people in antarctica durin...,
For most young adults what happen...
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Chapter 13.2: Conscious and Unconscious Processes
Which of the following best state...,
What do the following have in com...,
What procedure is used in backwar...
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Chapter 13.3: Making Decisions and Social Neuroscience
During a perceptual decision what...,
Can rats think about the future a...,
In a value decision how do respon...
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Chapter 14.1: Substance Abuse
Which of the following types of d...,
The gene with the best documented...,
What evidence demonstrates predis...
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Chapter 14.2: Mood Disorders
What is the disadvantage of using...,
If someone starts taking antidepr...,
Which of the following is importa...
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Chapter 14.3: Schizophernia
Why is lack of emotion expression...,
Schizophrenia is more common than...,
Which of these is a likely conclu...
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Chapter 14.4: Autism Spectrum Disorders
In what way is the genetic basis ...,
Which of these is commonly observ...,
The probability of autism increas...
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