Exam 3 review

Karen's years of experience navigating the streets of a very large city as a taxi driver have resulted in changes in her brain's spatial memory centers that support her detailed street location memory. This best illustrates the value of

• refractory periods

• plasticity

• echolocation

• reuptake

A neuron is best described as a

• synapse

• cell

• sheath

• molecule

The messages neurons carry are nerve impulses called

• neurotransmitters

• action potentials

• refractory periods

• EEGs

Natural, opiate-like neurotransmitters linked to pain control are called

• glial cells

• dendrites

• glutamates

• endorphins

Neurons that enable people to throw a baseball by relaying messages from their central nervous system to their skeletal muscles are called

• interneurons

• sensory neurons

• glial cells

• motor neurons

The brain's oldest region is the

• hippocampus

• amygdala

• brainstem

• hypothalamus

Which brain structure relays information from the eyes to the visual cortex?

• thalamus

• amygdala

• medulla

• cerebellum

The limbic system structure that regulates hunger is called the

• thalamus

• amygdala

• hippocampus

• hypothalamus

The limbic system's hippocampus

• coordinates body movement and balance

• regulates hunger and thirst

• plays a central role in fear and rage

• helps process explicit memories for storage

Which portion of the cerebral cortex is most directly involved in making plans and formulating moral judgments?

• occipital lobes

• frontal lobes

• temporal lobes

• parietal lobes