NSC 3361 Final Exam Questions and Answers All Correct
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NSC 3361 Final Exam Questions and Answers All Correct
Chronic pain is defined as pain that:
A) Persists after the point at which full healing has occurred
B) Last longer than a week
C) Cannot be explained by the injury
D) Is felt because the injury has not healed
E) Involves inflammation ...
NSC 3361 Final Exam Questions
and Answers All Correct
Chronic pain is defined as pain that:
A) Persists after the point at which full healing has occurred
B) Last longer than a week
C) Cannot be explained by the injury
D) Is felt because the injury has not healed
E) Involves inflammation - Answer-A) Persists after the point at which full healing has
occurred
The basal ganglia consists of the:
A) Cerebellum, red nucleus, and substantia nigra
B) Putamen, caudate nucleus, globus pallidus
C) Putamen, caudate nucleus, globus pallidus, and cerebellum
D) Cerebellum, red nucleus, and putamen
E) None of the above - Answer-B) Putamen, caudate nucleus, and globus pallidus
What is the relationship between motor neurons and muscle fibers?
A) Each neuron innervates only one muscle fiber
B) The more neurons controlled by a single muscle fiber, the more precise the
movements
C) The fewer muscle fibers controlled by a single neuron, the more precise the
movement
D) The more muscle fibers a neuron innervates, the more precise the movements -
Answer-C) The fewer muscle fibers controlled by a single neuron, the more precise the
movement
The role of the cerebellum is to:
A) Coordination of movement
B) Planning for movements
C) Inhibition of movement
D) Initiation of movement
E) None of the above - Answer-A) Coordination of movement
Myasthenia gravis can be caused by which of the following?
,A) Damage to the myelin sheath that covers axons in the spinal cord
B) Loss of cell bodies in the striatum
C) Loss of acetylcholine receptors on muscles
D) Damage to dopamine-containing cells in the substantia nigra
E) All of the above - Answer-C) Loss of acetylcholine receptors on muscles
Humans are most sensitive to frequencies in the range of:
A) 15 to 20,000 Hz
B) 1,000 to 4,000 Hz
C) 4,000 to 6,000 Hz
D) 10,000 to 12,000 Hz - Answer-B) 1,000 to 4,000 Hz
The stapes presses against the:
A) Oval window
B) Tympanic window
C) Square window
D) The ear drum
E) Hammer - Answer-A) Oval window
The inferior colliculus projects auditory impulses to the:
A) Primary auditory cortex
B) Cochlear nucleus
C) Medial geniculate nucleus
D) Lateral geniculate nucleus
E) Superior olivary complex - Answer-C) Medial geniculate nucleus
The early nineteenth-century field of _______________ claimed to discern an
association between personality traits and specific bumps on skull.
A) Ontogeny
B) Dualism
C) Epigenetics
D) Phrenology
E) None of the above - Answer-D) Phrenology
In studying brain-damaged patients exhibiting speech difficulties, Paul Broca discovered
that a particular region in the _____________ part of the brain appears to be especially
important.
A) Right
B) Top
C) Left
, D) Bottom
E) Sagittal - Answer-C) Left
The notion of dualism as proposed by Descartes stated that:
A) The mind and the brain are one and the same
B) Humans have a non-material soul and a material body that are not the same
C) Humans have a non-material soul and a material body that are one and the same
D) Science and the church are one and the same
E) None of the above - Answer-B) Humans have a non-material soul and a material
body that are not the same
The glial cells that form the myelin sheath in the central nervous system are:
A) Arachnoid
B) Astrocytes
C) Oligodendrocytes
D) Schwann cells
E) None of the above - Answer-C) Oligodendrocytes
The neuroglia cell most likely to be found surrounding the soma of neurons in the
peripheral nervous system is:
A) An astrocyte
B) A satellite cell
C) A schwann cell
D) An oligodendrocyte
E) A microglia cell - Answer-B) A satellite cell
Please select the following true statement about unipolar neurons.
A) Unipolar neurons have a single extension which branches in two directions
B) Unipolar neurons are all interneurons
C) Unipolar neurons are all motor neurons
D) Unipolar neurons have 1 dendrite and 1 axon
E) The most common class of neuron in the human body in the unipolar neuron -
Answer-A) Unipolar neurons have a single extension which branches in two directions
Nodes of Ranvier are critical to saltatory conduction and are located along the axons of:
A) All motor neurons (irrespective of diameter)
B) Only sensory neurons less than 2 micrometers in diameter
C) Most neurons larger than 2 micrometers in diameter (irrespective type)
D) All neurons (irrespective of diameter or type) - Answer-C) Most neurons larger than 2
micrometers in diameter (irrespective of type)
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