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Chapter 2: CELLS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
What are the main difficulties wi...,
What is the widely used technique...,
Who are the two pioneers in this ...
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Chapter 2: COMMUNICATION WITHIN A NEURON
How do neurons conduct signals,
What happens when someone touches...,
What happens when someone is hold...
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Chapter 2: ACTION POTENTIALS
How are voltage gated na channels...,
What happens to the membrane pote...,
What condition must be reached to...
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Chapter 3: BASIC FEATURES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
What is cerebrospinal fluid csf,
What does the cns consist of,
What does the pns consist of
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Chapter 3: STRUCTURES AND FUNCTION OF THE CNS
What are the two subdivisions of ...,
What does the telencephalon include,
What is the cerebral cortex what ...
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Chapter 3: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE PNS
What is the general function of c...,
What is the vagus nerve and what ...,
What is the function of olfactory...
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Chapter 2: COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NEURONS
What does the lock and key theory...,
What are the two sides of the syn...,
Under what form is the synaptic t...
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Chapter 4: PRINCIPLES OF PHARMACOLOGY
What is psychopharmacology,
What are the two major aspects of...,
What are drug effects
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CHAPTER 4: SITES OF DRUG ACTION
What is an antagonist drug,
What is an agonist drug,
In the case of the administration...
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CHAPTER 4: NEUROTRANSMITTERS AND NEUROMODULATORS
What is the excitatory amino acid...,
What is the inhibitory amino acid...,
What is the inhibitory amino acid...
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Chapter 5: EXPERIMENTAL ABLATION
What are lesions studies,
What are the purposes of lesion s...,
What are three ways you can cause...
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Chapter 5: RECORDING AND STIMULATING NEURAL ACTIVITY
What electrical events can be rec...,
What electrical events can be rec...,
What can changes in electrical ac...
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CHAPTER 6: THE EYE
What is sensation,
What is perception,
What allows the eye to detect lig...
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Chapter 5: NEUROCHEMICAL METHODS
What are the two ways of localizi...,
What are the two procedures by wh...,
What does autoradiography consist of
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Chapter 5: GENETIC METHODS
What is a powerful method for est...,
What is the difference between co...,
How can we infer that a disorder ...
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Chapter 6: BRAIN REGIONS INVOLVED IN VISUAL PROCESSING
How is the lgn organized,
What do the magnocellular layers ...,
What do the parvocellular layers ...
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Chapter 6: PERCEPTION OF COLOUR
What do we call trichromatic coding,
What can genetic defect in colour...,
What do people with protanopia see
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Chapter 6: PERCEPTION OF FORM
What are the main steps of percep...,
What do people with visual agnosi...,
What is prosopagnosia
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Chapter 6: PERCEPTION OF SPATIAL LOCATION
What does our binocular vision al...,
What is retinal disparity,
Where are disparity sensitive neu...
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Chapter 7: AUDITION
Speed of noise,
Three dimensions of sound,
Pitch
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Chapter 7: VESTIBULAR SYSTEM
Vestibular sacs,
Semicircular canals,
Ampulla
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Chapter 7: SOMATOSENSES
Glabrous skin,
What is sensitivity to pressure a...,
2 categories of thermal receptors
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Chapter 7: GUSTATION
How many taste buds,
How do cilia project gustatory info,
How do you taste salt
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Chapter 7: OLFACTION
How many olfactory receptors,
Olfactory epithelium,
How does olfactory processing work
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Chapter 9: WHAT IS SLEEP?
What are the three mechanisms for...,
What are the characteristic of th...,
What is the activity like during ...
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Chapter 9: WHY DO WE SLEEP?
What would be a general answer to...,
What was the general finding of s...,
How do the bottlenose dolphin and...
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Chapter 9: PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF SLEEP
How is sleep chemically controlled,
What does a rem sleep deprivation...,
What is the hypothesis on substan...
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Chapter 9: DISORDERS OF SLEEP
What is insomnia,
What are the two types of insomnia,
How is insomnia treated
12
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Chapter 9: BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS
What is the circadian rhythm,
What is a zeitgeber,
How long is a circadian rhythm cycle
19
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Chapter 10: SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT
What a sexually dimorphic behavior,
What is intersex,
What does the process of meiosis do
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Chapter 10: HORMONAL CONTROL OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
What do hormones regulate,
What are sex hormones called,
What releases sex hormones
61
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Chapter 10: NEURAL CONTROL OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR
What does the cerebral cortex con...,
What does the spinal cord control...,
What does the parasynpathetic ans...
25
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Chapter 10: PARENTAL BEHAVIOUR
What is parturition,
What is one important example of ...,
What hormones play an important r...
23
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Chapter 11: BACKGROUND
What are early theories of emotio...,
What are emotions thought to be i...,
What is hypothesized in basic emo...
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Chapter 11: THE COMPONENTS OF EMOTIONAL RESPONSE
What are the three types of compo...,
What do the behavioral components...,
What does the autonomic component...
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Chapter 11: AGGRESSION, IMPUSE CONTROL, AND EMOTIONAL DECISION-MAKING
Can we say that testosterone auto...,
Can we say that testosterone auto...,
What mechanisms might be responsi...
60
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Chapter 11: COMMUNICATION OF EMOTIONS
How are facial expressions determ...,
What hemisphere plays a more impo...,
Are comprehension of words and re...
18
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Chapter 11: FEELING EMOTIONS
What is the james lange theory,
What can feedback from the contra...,
What is the facial feedback hypot...
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Chapter 12: DRINKING
4 essential features of regulator...,
What are regulatory systems regul...,
What are ingestive behaviours con...
20
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Chapter 12: EATING
What does the short term reservoi...,
What does the long term reservoir...,
Glycogen
15
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Chapter 12: WHAT STARTS A MEAL?
What hormone is released when the...,
When do ghrelin increase and decr...,
What is the duodenum
7
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Chapter 12: WHAT STOPS A MEAL?
Short term satiety signals,
Long term satiety signals,
Gastric factors in short term sat...
13
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Chapter 12: BRAIN MECHANISMS
What do neural circuits in the br...,
What is decerebration,
Role of area postrema and nucleus...
15
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Chapter 12: OBESITY
What are the known health risks o...,
What is the basic premise of obesity,
What are the physical activity fa...
17
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Chapter 12: EATING DISORDERS
What are brain changes associated...,
What are possible causes for anor...,
What genetic factors could be ass...
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