Chapter 9 Development of the Nervous System

Question 1

Induction of the neural _________

Answer 1

plate

Question 2

Formation of the _________ tube

Answer 2

neural

Question 3

Neural _________

Answer 3

proliferation

Question 4

Neural _________

Answer 4

migration

Question 5

_________ aggregation

Answer 5

Neural

Question 6

Growth of neural _________

Answer 6

processes (axons and dendrites),

Question 7

Formation of _________

Answer 7

synapses

Question 8

Neuron _________ and synapse _________

Answer 8

death; rearrangement

Question 9

Several areas of the prefrontal cortex play a role in executive functions, planning, following social rules, and ____.

Answer 9

inhibition

Question 10

Piaget found that 7-month-old infants reached for the
same location to find a hidden object even after the object had been moved to a new location in front of them. This was termed as ____ ____.

Answer 10

perseverative error

Question 11

If it is absolutely essential for an experience to occur
within a particular interval to influence development, the interval is called a ____ ____.

Answer 11

critical period

Question 12

Most experiential effects occur during the ____ period.

Answer 12

sensitive

Question 13

The effects of early stimulus deprivation, such as depriving visual input, can reduce the number of ____ projecting to the visual cortex from the lateral geniculate nucleus.

Answer 13

axons

Question 14

New olfactory bulb and striatal neurons are created from adult neural ____ cells at certain sites in the subventricular
zone of the lateral ventricles.

Answer 14

stem

Question 15

Animal studies have shown that adult rats living in enriched environments produced 60 percent more neurons in the ____.

Answer 15

hippocampus

Question 16

Adult-generated hippocampal neurons become ____ cells
in the dentate gyrus.

Answer 16

granule

Question 17

____, otherwise referred to as ringing of the ears, produces a major reorganization of the primary auditory cortex.

Answer 17

Tinnitus