Neuroscience / Edition 6 by Dale Purves Test Bank
Neuroscience / Edition 6 by Dale Purves Test Bank
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Studying the Nervous
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Chapter 2. Electrical Signals of Nerve Cells
Chapter 3. Voltage-Dependent Membrane Permeability
Chapter 4. Ion Channels and Transporters
Chapter 5. Synaptic Transmission
Chapter 6. Neurotransmitters and Their Receptors
Chapter 7. Molecular Signaling within Neurons
Chapter 8. Synaptic Plasticity
Chapter 9. The Somatosensory System: Touch and Proprioception
Chapter 10. Pain
Chapter 11. Vision: The Eye
Chapter 12. Central Visual Pathways
Chapter 13. The Auditory System
Chapter 14. The Vestibular System
Chapter 15. The Chemical Senses
Chapter 16. Lower Motor Neuron Circuits and Motor Control
Chapter 17. Upper Motor Neuron Control of the Brainstem and Spinal Cord
Chapter 18. Modulation of Movement by the Basal Ganglia
Chapter 19. Modulation of Movement by the Cerebellum
Chapter 20. Eye Movements and Sensory Motor Integration
Chapter 21. The Visceral Motor System
Chapter 22. Early Brain Development
Chapter 23. Construction of Neural Circuits
Chapter 24. Circuit Differentiation: Intrinsic Factors and Sex Differences
Chapter 25. Experience-Dependent Plasticity in the Developing Brain
Chapter 26. Repair and Regeneration in the Nervous System
Chapter 27. Cognitive Functions and the Organization of the Cerebral Cortex
Chapter 28. Cortical States
Chapter 29. Attention
Chapter 30. Memory
Chapter 31. Emotion
Chapter 32. Thinking, Planning, and Deciding
Chapter 33. Speech and Language
Chapter 34. Development and Evolution of Cognitive Functions
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e. Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
5. Which function is a characteristic primarily of neurons only, and not glia?
a. Transmits action potentials
b. Supports electrical signals
c. Repairs the nervous system
d. Prevents regeneration of the nervous system
e. Produces myelin
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
6. In which part of a neuron would most of the endoplasmic reticulum be concentrated?
a. Postsynaptic terminal
b. Presynaptic terminal
c. Axon
d. Cell body
e. Dendrite
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
7. Which intracellular component facilitates the processes of endocytosis and exocytosis
underlying synaptic communication?
a. Mitochondria
b. Endoplasmic reticulum
c. Cytoskeleton
d. Golgi apparatus
e. Nucleus
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
8. Most neurons have
a. one axon hillock (initial segment).
b. multiple axon hillocks (initial segments).
c. one dendrite.
d. one axon hillock (initial segment) and one dendrite.
e. multiple axon hillocks (initial segments) and one dendrite.
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: Neurons
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
9. Which statement best describes the function of a neuron with multiple, highly
branched dendrites and one axon?
a. It passes information directly to multiple neurons.
b. It cannot integrate information from multiple neurons.
c. It receives information from only one other neuron.
d. It integrates information from many neurons.
e. The information it receives will not be relayed.
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: Neurons
Bloom’s Level: 3. Applying
10. Which statement best describes most neurons?
a. They receive information via axons.
b. They transmit information to other cells via dendrites.
c. They are polarized.
d. They conduct signals bidirectionally.
e. They transmit electrical signals via cytoplasmic continuity.
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Neurons
Bloom’s Level: 3. Applying
11. Compared with projection neurons, axons of local circuit neurons (interneurons)
a. are longer.
b. are shorter.
c. have more synapses.
d. have more branches.
e. reach more postsynaptic neurons.
Answer: b
Textbook Reference: Neurons
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
12. An action potential is a(n) change in the electrical potential across the nerve
cell membrane.
a. single
b. all-or-nothing
c. permanent
d. random
e. unidirectional
Answer: b
Textbook Reference: Neurons
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
13. The part of a synapse to which the contents of synaptic vesicles bind is called the
a. presynaptic terminal.
b. synaptic ending.
c. axon terminal. [Show Less]