Drugs And The Brain, Touch And Pain, Vision And Movement
Review test for page 9-21
- 1.The high risk dependence drugs are __________
- A.
Cocaine, alcohol and cannabis
- B.
Amphetamines, heroin and nicotine
- C.
Nicotine, cocaine and heroin
- D.
Alcohol, cannabis and amphetamines
- 2.Dependent drugs promote the release of neurotransmitter _____ to seek "pleasure" in the brain
- A.
Dopamine
- B.
Acetylcholine
- C.
Noradrenaline
- D.
GABA
- 3.The following are touch receptors embedded in the dermal layer of the skin except _______
- A.
Pacinian endings
- B.
Meissner corpuscle
- C.
Merkel's disk
- D.
Ruffini endings
- 4.The 2 types of touch receptors that respond best to rapidly changing indentations are ______________________
- A.
Merkel's disk and Meissener corpuscle
- B.
Merkel's disk and Ruffini's endings
- C.
Ruffini's endings and Meissener corpuscle
- D.
Pacinian corpuscle and Ruffini's endings
- 5.The larger a receptive field, the ________________
- A.
Larger the stimulus needed to stimulate a sensory receptor
- B.
Fewer sensory receptor are there
- C.
Harder it is to locate the exact point of stimulation
- D.
Larger the area of the somatosensory cortex in the brain that deals with that area
- 6.The area of sensory cortex devoted to a body region is relative to the _________
- A.
Size of the body area
- B.
Distance of the body area from the brain
- C.
Number of motor units in the area of the body
- D.
Number of sensory receptors in the area of the body
- 7.Which of the following is not a function of the basal ganglia
- A.
Initiation of movements
- B.
Complex filter that selects information from an enormous numbers of inputs received by cortex
- C.
Important for speech
- D.
Important for learning
- 8.Alcohol interacts with what receptor to calm anxiety, impair muscle control and delay reaction time?
- A.
GABA receptor
- B.
NMDA receptor
- C.
Acetyl choline receptor
- D.
Neuropeptide Y receptor
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