A. The cerebellum plays a key role in making movement smooth and efficient, and lies at the black of the brain
B. The motor and sensory systems do not interact
C. The spinal cord, made up of both axons and ganglia, provides us with essential reflexes
D. The brain comprises two halves-or hemispheres
Related Mcqs:
- The capacity of the brain area to take over the function of another damaged brain area is known as brain _______________?
A. regeneration
B. accommodation
C. aphasia
D. plasticity - The capacity of one brain area to take over the functions of another damaged brain area is known as brain:
A. tomography
B. hemispherectomy
C. phrenology
D. plasticity - The most obvious difference between the human brain and the brain of a carp would be in the:
A. hypothalamus
B. thalamus
C. cerebellum
D. cerebral cortex - A brain tumor in the hippocampus of the brain would impair a person’s ability to learn new things while leaving their old memories intact. This condition is known as _________________?
A. retroactive inhibition
B. anterograde amnesia
C. proactive inhibition
D. retrograde amnesia - Which, if any, of the following are true? 1: Each region of the neocortex may contain more specialized modules. 2: Damage to a given volume of neocortical tissue tends to be more profoundly disabling than damage to the same volume of the subcortex. 3: Functional neuro-imaging methods allow us to observe which brain regions are active.
A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 1 & 3
D. None - Which of the following statements are true? 1. On a vernier acuity task, humans can discern the direction of very tiny offsets, but performance deteriorates with practice. 2. Different types of visual search have different behavioural characteristics and depend on different brain regions. 3. Walsh et.al. (1998) suggest that the right parietal lobe may be involved in setting up new templates in the conjunctions of, say, colour and form. 4 All of the above.
A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 1 & 3
D. 4 - Current research considers human sexual behavior to be motivated by what factors in the brain?
A. External sensory stimuli and organism’s internal state
B. Pre-optic area and estrogen
C. Interpersonal attraction and financial stability
D. Intelligence and physical attractiveness - ________ psychology compare human abilities with those of animals particularly non-human primates?
A. Industrial Psychology
B. Social Psychology
C. Evolutionary Psychology
D. Animal Psychology - Briefly defined_______is to study of human behavior and human relationships:
A. psychology
B. Physical activity
C. Humanity
D. Research - Recent work in behavioural genetics has examined the contribution of genetic and environmental factors to human behavior. But which of the four assertions below is NOT true?
A. Research as shown monozygotic twins to have much more similar personality traits than dizygotic twins
B. Both adoption studies and twin studies are consistent with a genetic influence on personality
C. Adoption studies have shown that environment plays no part in the development of personality
D. Children who are genetically more active and impulsive can cause their parents to be more responsive to their needs than other children
