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BIOPSYCHOLOGY: NEURONS, HORMONES, and THE BRAIN: CHAPTER 3
1. Describe in detail the two main parts of the nervous system.
2. Describe three activities that are more closely associated with the left hemisphere and three activities that are more closely associated with the right hemisphere of the brain.
3. On each cerebral hemisphere, deep fissures divide the cortex into four distinct lobes. Name each of the four lobes and describe the location of each lobe.
4. Name any four neurotransmitters discussed in the textbook and explain what aspects of behavior, memory, and well-being each influence.
5. Describe what the implications are of compromised immune function as a result of exposure to chronic stress.
6. Before the advent of modern imaging techniques, scientist and clinicians relied on autopsies of people who suffered brain injury with resultant change in behavior to determine how different areas of the brain were affected. What are some of the limitations associated with this kind of approach?
7. Cocaine has two effects on synaptic transmission: it impairs reuptake of dopamine and it causes more dopamine to be released into the synaptic cleft. Would cocaine be classified as an agonist or antagonist? Why?
8. The theory of evolution by natural selection requires variability of a given trait. Why is variability necessary and where does it come from?