Hormones are to endocrine system as ___________ are to the nervous system?

A. Nerves
B. Synapses
C. Neurotransmitters
D. Action potential

A person that suggests that the shape of a person’s skull indicates the extent to which that individual is argumentative and aggressive would be a __________?

A. Neurologist
B. Phrenologist
C. Psychoanalyst
D. Neuropsychologist

The vast majority of cells in the body’s information-processing systems are ___________?

A. Interneurons
B. Motor neurons
C. Sensory neurons
D. Neurotransmitters

The process of comparing currently experienced visual input with past visual memories takes place with ___________?

A. Broca’s area
B. The sensory cortex
C. Association areas
D. The limbic system

Chemicals which are produced in the brain and facilitate communication between nerve cells are called ______________?

A. Neurotransmitters
B. Plasmas
C. Syntactic structures
D. Adrenocorticoids

During depolarization,____________ molecules rush into axon, during depolarization_____________ molecules rush out of the axon?

A. Potassium, chloride
B. Chloride, sodium
C. Sodium, potassium
D. None of these

Which part of the neuron release transmitters onto receiving cells?

A. Axon terminals
B. Dendrites
C. Glia
D. Action potentials

Which area of brain are closely connected to hunger, eating and satiation?

A. Medulla oblongata
B. Hippocampus
C. Hypothalamus
D. Thalamus

The peripheral nervous system is made up of extensions from the central nervous system known as _____________?

A. Nerves
B. Ganglia
C. Tracts
D. Dendrites

The cells that serve as the building blocks of the body’s information processing system are called ____________?

A. Neurons
B. Neurotransmitters
C. Dendrites
D. Synapses