Biological Psychology, 13th Edition, James W. Kalat Test Bank

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Chapter 01

1. Dendrites contain the nuclei, ribosomes, mitochondria, and other structures found in most cells.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

2. Neurons receive information and transmit it to other cells.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

3. Santiago Ramón y Cajal used special staining techniques to reveal that the brain is composed of individual cells.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

4. An efferent axon carries information away from a structure.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

5. The greater the surface area of a dendrite, the more information it can receive from other neurons.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

6. Neurons are distinguished from other cells by their shape.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

7. The role of glial cells is to act like “glue” or scaffolding to support the neurons.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

8. Glial cells transmit information across long distances.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

9. There are two types of glial cells that produce myelin sheath. In the central nervous system, Schwann cells fulfill this

role and, in the periphery, oligodendrocytes produce it.

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a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

10. The blood-brain barrier is made up of closely packed glial cells.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

11. The difference in voltage in a resting neuron is called the resting potential.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

12. Increasing the electrical gradient for potassium will reduce the tendency for potassium ions to exit the neuron.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: True

13. At the resting potential, the potassium channels are completely closed and the sodium channels are almost closed.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

14. Dr. Skinner is working in the lab measuring the voltage of neurons, and during one condition, she tried to depolarize

the neurons from -70 mV to -80 mV.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

15. Action potentials can be produced in the dendrites of some neurons.

a. True

b. False

ANSWER: False

16. The two basic kinds of cells in the nervous system are _____.

a. neurons and glia

b. dendrites and axons

c. ribosomes and lysosomes

d. neurons and axons

ANSWER: a

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17. Santiago Ramon y Cajal demonstrated that ____.

a. at rest, the neuron has a negative charge inside its membrane

b. neurons are separate from one another

c. neurons communicate at specialized junctions called synapses

d. action potentials follow the all-or-none law

ANSWER: b

18. Both ____ and ____ shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1906.

a. Golgi and Cajal

b. Cajal and Sherrington

c. Sherrington and Golgi

d. Cajal and Kalat

ANSWER: a

19. Dr. Kimi studies the plasma membrane of neurons. He specifically researches the specialized _____ that allow in

important things like water, oxygen, sodium, and so on.

a. lipid channels

b. protein channels

c. lipid receptors

d. protein receptors

ANSWER: b

20. Neurons differ most strongly from other body cells in their ____.

a. temperature

b. shape

c. osmotic pressure

d. mitochondria

ANSWER: b

21. What do neurons have that other cells do not?

a. A plasma membrane

b. Large, branching extensions

c. Protein channels

d. An endoplasmic reticulum

ANSWER: b

22. Dr. McLaughlin’s lab studies how newly formed proteins are folded inside neurons. They would be most interested in

studying the _____.

a. endoplasmic reticulum

b. mitochondria

c. ribosomes

d. nucleus

ANSWER: c

23. Water, oxygen, and ____ freely flow across a cell membrane.

a. calcium

b. positively charged ions

c. magnesium

d. carbon dioxide

ANSWER: d

24. The structure that contains a cell’s chromosomes is called the ____.

a. endoplasmic reticulum

b. nucleus

c. mitochondrion

d. ribosome

ANSWER: b

25. Small, charged molecules can cross the cell membrane through ____.

a. diffusion

b. ribosomes

c. mitochondria

d. protein channels

ANSWER: d

26. Professor Lopez studies the specialized _________ in the eye that detect light.

a. motor neurons

b. sensory neurons

c. glial cells

d. interneurons

ANSWER: b

27. Ribosomes are the part of a cell that ____.

a. performs metabolic activities

b. breaks down harmful chemicals

c. transports proteins

d. synthesizes new proteins

ANSWER: d

28. The endoplasmic reticulum is a ____.

a. network of thin tubes that transport newly synthesized proteins

b. site where the cell synthesizes new protein molecules

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