Area of Study 1.1

The main method used in phrenology to investigate the workings and nature of the human mind was

• The surgical destruction of brain tissue

• A physical examination of the shape and uneveness of the head or skull

• A psychological examination of the person's actual behavour

• The measurement of brain cell activity by electrodes placed on the skull

One of the earliest arguments on the seat of human mental processes was the brain-heart debate, which involved one position that

• The mind was located in the heart and that the brain was just a radiator used to cool the heart

• The mind was located in both the heart and the brain

• The brain was the source of thinking and the heart was the seat of emotions

• The mind was located in the brain and the heart was the seat of all thinking and emotion

The dualist approach to the mind-body problem attempts to explain how

• Our beliefs, actions and thinking (our mind) are the product of our physical body

• Our beliefs, actions and thinking (our mind) are the product of our non-physical body

• The non-physical mind is related to the physical states and processes in the body

• Thee physical mind is related to the non-physical states in our body

The central nervous system comprises the

• Spinal cord and peripheral nerves

• Brain and peripheral nerves

• Brain and autonomic nervous system

• Spinal cord and the brain

The peripheral nervous system comprises the

• Brain and somatic nervous system

• Autonomic and somatic nervous systems

• Autonomic nervous system and spinal cord

• Somatic nervous nervous system and spinal cord

When a signal is sent from a muscle of the body to the brain the message is first sent by what type of nerve cell?

• Sensory neuron

• Motor neuron

• Interneuron

• Glial

A neuron comprises the following basic parts:

• Medulla, reticular formation, thalamus, cerebellum

• Dendrites, cell body, axon, axon terminals

• Cell body, myelin, medulla, axon terminals

• Dendrites, axon, axon terminals, reticular formation

The main purpose of the myelin sheath that surrounds the neuron's axon is to

• Transmit the nerve impulse down the axon

• Provide a connection pathway between nerve fibres

• Insulate the axon to assist to nerve impulse conduction

• Halt the nerve impulse being transmitted back to the cell body

The forebrain comprises a number of structures including the

• Cerebellum, cerebrum, thalamus

• Reticular formation, cerebrum, hypothalamus

• Cerebrum, hypothalamus, thalamus

• Thalamus, cerebellum, hypothalamus

A patient has damage to her left frontal cortex (lobe) she might experience

• Loss of sensory function of her right hand

• Loss of sensory function for her left hand

• Loss of motor function for her right hand

• Loss of motor function for her left hand