A. 3 to 200 miles an hour
B. the speed of light
C. 600 miles an hour
D. 200 miles a second
Related Mcqs:
- Akhtar is watching a basketball game the neural impulses from his eyes will ultimately travel to his primary visual cortex, but first they must pass through the:
A. amygdala
B. hypothalamus
C. thalamus
D. pons - Sania just caught sight of a red hummingbird. The neural impulses from her eye will eventually travel to her occipital lobe, but first they must pass through:
A. the hypothalamus
B. hippocampus
C. the reticular formation
D. the thalamus - Sound vibrations in the ear create neural impulses received in which of the following cortex locations?
A. temporal lobe
B. occipital lobe
C. parietal lobe
D. frontal lobe - The local fire department sounds the 12 o’clock whistle. The process by which your ears convert the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses is an example of:
A. Transduction
B. Sensory adaptation
C. Parallel processing
D. Accommodation - The transduction of light energy into nerve impulses takes place in the _____________?
A. iris
B. retina
C. lens
D. optic nerve - Neurons generally cannot fire at rates exceeding 100 impulses per second. This maximum firing rate can be largely attributed to ____________?
A. spatial summation
B. relative refractory periods
C. absolute refractory periods
D. excitatory postsynaptic potentials - Auditory sensations are transformed from ‘air waves’ to nerve impulses by the _________________?
A. vestibular system
B. pinna
C. round window
D. cochlea - Which of the following is true of personal construct theory? 1: George Kelly developed personal construct theory to examine how individuals view the world. 2: Personal construct theory portrays people as victims of unconscious desires and impulses. 3: Personal construct theory does not try to locate the individual on the personality theorists, dimensions. 4: Kelly basically took the view that we are all artists.
A. 1 & 2
B. 3 & 4
C. 1 & 3
D. 2 & 4 - The cytoplasmic process that arise from the neuron cell body and carry impulses away cell body are termed:
A. Pacinian corpuscles
B. Nissl’s granules
C. Axons
D. Free nerve endings - The pathway of passage of impulses during a reflex action is:
A. Reflex arc
B. Reflex circuit
C. Nerve impulse
D. None of these
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