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6. Which way to investigate the brain is relatively risk free/non-invasive?
7. What is an example of an infradian rhythm?
- Core body temperature
- Menstrual cycle
- Sleep-wake cycle
- Sleep stages
8. What group did Maguire study in 2000, finding increased grey matter in the posterior hippocampus?
- College graduates
- London taxi drivers
- Medical students
- High school drop outs
9. Which way to investigate the brain is specific but requires all background noise to be eliminated?
10. What term describes mechanisms in the body that govern our internal bodily rhythms?
- Hormones
- Exogenous zeitgeibers
- Endogenous pacemakers
- Homeostasis
11. What happened when patients were shown a word in their left visual field and asked to speak it aloud?
- Able to describe it - language centres are in the left hemisphere
- Unable to describe it - language centres are in the left hemisphere
- Unable to describe it - language centres are in the right hemisphere
- Able to describe it - language centres are in the right hemisphere
12. Where is Wernicke's area?
- Occipital lobe
- Parietal lobe
- Temporal lobe
- Frontal lobe
13. Where is Broca's area?
- Frontal lobe
- Temporal lobe
- Parietal lobe
- Occipital lobe
14. Where is the motor area?
- Occipital lobe
- Frontal lobe
- Temporal lobe
- Parietal lobe
15. What evidence disputes ideas of functional recovery after trauma being most present in young people?
- Maguire - taxi driver study
- Bezzola - 40 hours of golf training for adults led to change in brains
- Practical applications
- Tajiri - found stem cells assisted in brain recovery
16. What term describes when areas on the opposite side of the brain replace the damaged areas on the other side?
- Reformation of blood vessels
- Synaptic pruning
- Recruitment of homologous areas
- Axonal sprouting
17. Which way to investigate the brain has high temporal resolution but is unspecific?
18. Which biological rhythm describes a 24 hour cycle?
- Ultradian rhythms
- Sleep rhythms
- Circadian rhythms
- Infradian rhythms
19. What is an example of an exogenous zeitgeber?
- Glands
- Light
- Hormones
- Humans
20. Who conducted Split-Brain research?
- Puccetti, 1974
- Sperry, 1968
- Wernicke, 1968
- Broca, 1959