A collection of neurons and supportive tissue running from the base of the brain down the center of the back, protected by a column of bones, is called the: 

Keegan notices that his favorite 55¢ candy bar seems lighter than usual so he checks the label and finds that it is lighter by half an ounce. He decides to buy a larger candy bar instead and doesn't notice that the 99¢ candy bar is also lighter than it used to be by half an ounce. Keegan's behavior illustrates the fact that: 

Which of the following neurotransmitters function as the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain?

Melatonin helps to regulate daily biological rhythms and promotes sleep. 

In addition to a subject's sensory capacity, signal detection theory takes into account. 

The information from rods and cones is communicated to ganglion cells by: 

The Sympathetic Nervous System enables the body to conserve and store its energy. 

Air serve as the only transmitting substance for sound waves:

It is most difficult for humans to localize sounds that are coming from directly in back of them or directly above their heads:

An EEG or brain wave recording: 

On a hike through the hills, Time feels a bug crawling up his leg under his pants. Which system is necessary for Time to be aware of the bug. 

Nerve impulses travel more slowly in babies than in older children and adults because: 

In order to infer an objet's location, we estimate its distance forms through both binocular and monocular cues. 

The process by which a neuron gets its message across the synaptic cleft to another cell is best likened to: 

In blind people, the visual areas in the brain might be active during tasks requiring hearing or touch due to plasticity. 

Which of the following is true regarding the Gestalt principles and hearing?

Which part of a neuron acts like an antenna to receive messages from other neurons and transmits these messages toward the cell body?

Generally speaking, the _____________ hemisphere in the brain is in charge of the left side of the body. 

When an observer is moving, objects appear to move at different speeds and different direcetions. 

The center or the retina, the fovea, contains a mixture of about 75% rods and 25% cones. 

The actual organ of hearing is the eardrum. 

____________ can cause the perception of an odor that is constant and unchanging to disappear. 

A leading theory of phantom limb pain explains that the experience is due to;

The Central Nervous System cells cannot be produced after infancy. 

The smallest amount of energy that a person can detect reliably is known as the absolute threshold.

The lesion method of studying the brain is often used with human participants. 

Positron-emission tomography (A PET Scan) is a method for analyzing the biochemical activity in the brain. 

The temporal lobes govern the ability to stop doing certain tasks at the proper time. 

__________ is a set of mental operations that organize sensory impulses into meaningful patterns. 

After split brain surgery, patiers are usually unable to walk or to care for the physical needs of everyday life.

When you enter a dim room, the ______ widens to let more light into the eye. 

The Difference Threshold is: 

The human body has ___________ pairs of cranial nerves in the head, connecting directly to the brain. 

The trichromatic theory explains: