Nervous System Quiz 254 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the slow progressive decline in mental abilities including memory, thinking, judgement, and ability to pay attention?

Correct Answer: D) Dementia.

2. A person suffered an accident and his right side of the body is paralyzed. Which part of his brain isaffected in this case?

Correct Answer: A) Left half of the brain.

3. Experiencing a broken bone while landing a gymnastic flip the wrong way.

Correct Answer: A) Sympathetic.

4. What structure would you find in the medial temporal lobe?

Correct Answer: B) The amygdala.

5. Food moves through the ..... towards the stomach

Correct Answer: D) Esophagus.

6. The Medulla Obolongata controls our .....

Correct Answer: A) Organ systems.

7. Motor nerves send signals from ..... to .....

Correct Answer: B) Brain to muscles.

8. What are motor neurons?

Correct Answer: D) Conduct impulses from the brain or spinal cord to muscles.

9. Which part of the brain accepts all sensory information (except smell) and directs it to the correct parts of the body (Sousa 18)?

Correct Answer: B) Thalamus.

10. The first step of digestion is?

Correct Answer: C) Mouth.

11. Lob/o

Correct Answer: C) Lobe.

12. Anatomical division of the nervous system located within the cranial and vertebral cavities, namely the brain and spinal cord.

Correct Answer: A) Central Nervous System (CNS).

13. If someone suffers from a stroke and can't speak, which part of the brain is damaged?

Correct Answer: A) Cerebrum.

14. Which system sends electrical signals throughout the body?

Correct Answer: B) Nervous.

15. The anatomy of a neuron that transmits signals away from the cell body are called:

Correct Answer: D) Axons.

16. Which part of the brain controls involuntary muscles?

Correct Answer: C) Medulla.

17. What is the joint that allows movement of our head?

Correct Answer: C) Pivot Joint.

18. Which nervous system disease may result in movement, cognitive and behavioral disorders?

Correct Answer: A) Huntington Disease.

19. How does information cross the synapse?

Correct Answer: A) Neurotransmitters.

20. What does the central nervous system carry?

Correct Answer: B) Voluntary or conscious activities like intelligence and learning.