Nervous System Quiz 613 (20 MCQs)

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1. Controls the secretion of endocrine hormones.

Correct Answer: C) Hypothalamus.

2. A region of the cerebral cortex responsible for hearing and language

Correct Answer: C) Temporal lobe.

3. Which of these is most closely related to metabolism, stress and excitement?

Correct Answer: A) Epinephrine.

4. ..... provides protection, nutrition to the bone, and the capacity for bone repair.

Correct Answer: D) Periosteum.

5. Small phagocytic cells that are especially obvious in damaged tissue in the CNS are the

Correct Answer: D) Microglia.

6. The branched end portions of the axons

Correct Answer: A) Axon terminals.

7. Specialized cells of the nervous system are called:

Correct Answer: C) Glial Cells.

8. Reflexes that send involuntary stimuli

Correct Answer: A) Autonomic Reflexes.

9. What are the five senses?

Correct Answer: D) The five senses are sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.

10. If a person is left-handed, which side of their brain is more likely the dominant side?

Correct Answer: B) Right brain.

11. Type of neuron that sends nerve impulse to muscles

Correct Answer: A) Motor Neuron.

12. Series of electrical signals that is generated in the nerve cells in a response to stimuli.

Correct Answer: A) Nerve impulse.

13. What type of response is a reflex?

Correct Answer: C) An involuntary response that happens quickly.

14. Nervous sensation

Correct Answer: B) Esthes/o, esthesi/o.

15. ..... are a subgroup of sensory nerve endings that respond to mechanical stimuli such as touch, pressure, and vibration.

Correct Answer: B) Mechanoreceptors.

16. At what level do the majority of nerve fibers cross from the right to the left?

Correct Answer: B) Medulla.

17. What are the two divisions of the human nervous system?

Correct Answer: A) Central and Peripheral Nervous System.

18. One of many thin parts that control movement and feeling by carrying messages between the brain and other parts of the body.

Correct Answer: C) Nerves.

19. Dendrites are the receiving or input portions of a neuron.

Correct Answer: A) TRUE.

20. The neuronal pool where the input is transmitted simultaneously along several neuron pathways to a common postsynaptic cell is called

Correct Answer: A) Parallel after discharge.