1) Which of the following statements about diverging neural pathways is correct? a) They accelerate the transmission of sensory impulses. b) They suppress the transmission of sensory impulses. c) They decrease the degree of fine motor control. d) They increase the degree of fine motor control. e) Impulses from several sources are channel to one neurone 2) Which of the following carries an impulse towards a nerve cell body? a) Dendrite b) Axon c) Myelin d) Myosin e) Synapse 3) Which of the following statements describes a neurotransmitter and its method of removal? a) Adrenaline is removed by reabsorption. b) Adrenaline is removed by enzyme degradation. c) Noradrenaline is removed by enzyme degradation. d) Noradrenaline is removed by reabsorption. e) Acetylcholine diffuses away from the synapse 4) Which of the following shows the direction of a nerve impulse in a neurone? a) Axon → cell body → dendrite b) Cell body → dendrite → axon c) Cell body → axon → dendrite d) Dendrite → cell body → axon e) Dendrite → axon → cell body f) Axon → dendrite → cell body 5) The serial position effect shows that words in the middle of a list are usually poorly recalled because many of these words a) have been displaced from short-term memory b) have not been encoded into short-term memory c) have been transferred into long-term memory d) have been stored in long-term memory. 6) The autonomic nervous system does not control the a) skeletal muscles b) heart and blood vessels c) endocrine glands d) muscular wall of the gut. e) bronchioles 7) Which statements is correct? a) The somatic nervous system controls mainly involuntary actions using sensory nerves. b) The somatic nervous system controls mainly voluntary actions using sympathetic nerves. c) The autonomic nervous system controls some involuntary actions using parasympathetic nerves. d) The autonomic nervous system controls some voluntary actions using motor nerves. e) The somatic nervous system controls mainly voluThe somatic nervous system controls mainly voluntary actions using parasympathetic nerves. 8) The function of the corpus callosum is to a) transfer information from a sensory neuron to a motor neurontransfer information from a sensory nerve to a motor nerve b) control balance and coordination c) transfer information from one hemisphere to the other d) control all sensory activities. e) transfer information from a inter neuron to a motor neuron 9) The somatic nervous system controls the a) skeletal muscles b) heart and blood vessels c) endocrine glands d) muscular wall of the gut. e) bronchioles

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