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1) The specialized cell that transmits signals throughout the nervous system is called the
a. neuron.
b. glial cell.
c. myelin.
d. neurotransmitter.
Answer: a
Correct: The neuron is the specialized cell that carries signals throughout the nervous
system.
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 30
Topic: Factual
Objective: 2.1 Define the function of the three types of neurons.
2) All of our thoughts, feelings, and behaviour can be traced to the activity of the
a. neurons.
b. ganglia.
c. genes.
d. nerve fibres.
Answer: a
Correct: Every thought and action we undertake begins as a result of biological
connections among neurons.
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 30
Topic: Conceptual
Objective: 2.1 Define the function of the three types of neurons
Answer: c
Correct: Dendrites receive signals from neighbouring neurons.
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 30
Topic: Factual
Objective: 2.2 Identify the three key structures of a neuron.
4) The part of the neuron that transmits signals to another neuron is called the
a. myelin.
b. cell body.
c. dendrites.
d. axon.
Answer: d
Correct: The axon is the extension of the neuron that can receive signals directly, but it is
primarily responsible for moving a signal from the dendrites to the axon terminals
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 30
Topic: Factual
Objective: 2.2 Identify the three key structures of a neuron.
Answer: d
Correct: While there is only one cell body, nucleus, and axon in a typical neuron, there
are usually multiple dendrites.
Diff: 3
Type: MC
Page Reference: 30
Topic: Factual
Objective: 2.2 Identify the three key structures of a neuron.
6) Where are the receptor sites for neurotransmitters located on the neuron?
a. the myelin sheath
b. the clefts
c. the dendrites and cell body
d. the synaptic vesicles
Answer: c
Correct: Both the dendrites and the cell body are able to receive neurotransmitters.
Diff: 3
Type: MC
Page Reference: 32
Topic: Factual
Objective: 2.2 Identify the three key structures of a neuron.
Answer: a
Correct: The dendrite is responsible for receiving information from neighbouring axons,
while the axon is responsible for releasing neurotransmitters that pass along signals to
neighbouring neurons.
Diff: 3
Type: MC
Page Reference: 30
Topic: Conceptual
Objective: 2.2 Identify the three key structures of a neuron.
8) The fluid-filled gap between a sending neuron and a receiving neuron is called the
After the President had issued his first call, Douglas saw the
danger to which the Capitol was exposed, and he promptly called
upon Lincoln to express his full approval of the call. Knowing his
political value and that of his following Lincoln asked him to dictate
a despatch to the Associated Press, which he did in these words, the
original being left in the possession of Hon. George Ashmun of
Massachusetts:
“April 18, 1861, Senator Douglas, called on the President, and had
an interesting conversation, on the present condition of the country.
The substance of it was, on the part of Mr. Douglas, that while he was
unalterably opposed to the administration in all its political issues,
he was prepared to fully sustain the President, in the exercise of all
his Constitutional functions, to preserve the Union, maintain the
Government, and defend the Federal Capitol. A firm policy and
prompt action was necessary. The Capitol was in danger, and must
be defended at all hazards, and at any expense of men and money.
He spoke of the present and future, without any reference to the
past.”
Douglas followed this with a great speech at Chicago, in which he
uttered a sentence that was soon quoted on nearly every Northern
tongue. It was simply this, “that there now could be but two parties,
patriots and traitors.” It needed nothing more to rally the Douglas
Democrats by the side of the Administration, and in the general
feeling of patriotism awakened not only this class of Democrats, but
many Northern supporters of Breckinridge also enlisted in the Union
armies. The leaders who stood aloof and gave their sympathies to the
South, were stigmatized as “Copperheads,” and these where they
were so impudent as to give expression to their hostility, were as
odious to the mass of Northerners as the Unionists of Tennessee and
North Carolina were to the Secessionists—with this difference—that
the latter were compelled to seek refuge in their mountains, while the
Northern leader who sought to give “aid and comfort to the enemy”
was either placed under arrest by the government or proscribed
politically by his neighbors. Civil war is ever thus. Let us now pass to
The first session of the 37th Congress began July 4, 1861, and
closed Aug. 6. The second began December 2, 1861, and closed July
17, 1862. The third began December 1, 1862 and closed March 4,
1863.
All of these sessions of Congress were really embarrassed by the
number of volunteers offering from the North, and sufficiently rapid
provision could not be made for them. And as illustrative of how
political lines had been broken, it need only be remarked that
Benjamin F. Butler, the leader of the Northern wing of Breckinridge’s
supporters, was commissioned as the first commander of the forces
which Massachusetts sent to the field. New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio
—the great West—all the States, more than met all early
requirements. So rapid were enlistments that no song was as popular
as that beginning with the lines:
“We are coming, Father Abraham,
Six hundred thousand strong.”
The first session of the 37th Congress was a special one, called by
the President. McPherson, in his classification of the membership,
shows the changes in a body made historic, if such a thing can be, not
only by its membership present, but that which had gone or made
itself subject to expulsion by siding with the Confederacy. We quote
the list so concisely and correctly presented:
SENATORS.
REPRESENTATIVES.
MEMORANDUM OF CHANGES.
IN SENATE.
IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
COMPENSATED EMANCIPATION
To the President:
Slaves.
Kentucky had 225,490
Maryland 87,188
Virginia 490,887
Delaware 1,798
Missouri 114,965
Tennessee 275,784
C. A. Wickliffe, Ch’n,
Garrett Davis,
R. Wilson,
J. J. Crittenden,
John S. Carlile,
J. W. Crisfield,
J. S. Jackson,
H. Grider,
John S. Phelps,
Francis Thomas,
Chas. B. Calvert,
C. L. Leary,
Edwin H. Webster,
R. Mallory,
Aaron Harding,
James S. Rollins,
J. W. Menzies,
Thomas L. Price,
G. W. Dunlap,
Wm. A. Hall.
Others of the minority, among them Senator Henderson and
Horace Maynard, forwarded separate replies, but all rejecting the
idea of compensated emancipation. Still Lincoln adhered to and
advocated it in his recent annual message sent to Congress, Dec. 1,
1862, from which we take the following paragraphs, which are in
themselves at once curious and interesting:
“We have two million nine hundred and sixty-three thousand
square miles. Europe has three million and eight hundred thousand,
with a population averaging seventy-three and one-third persons to
the square mile. Why may not our country, at some time, average as
many? Is it less fertile? Has it more waste surface, by mountains,
rivers, lakes, deserts, or other causes? Is it inferior to Europe in any
natural advantage? If, then, we are at some time to be as populous as
Europe, how soon? As to when this may be, we can judge by the past
and the present; as to when it will be, if ever, depends much on
whether we maintain the Union. Several of our States are already
above the average of Europe—seventy-three and a third to the square
mile. Massachusetts has 157; Rhode Island, 133; Connecticut, 99;
New York and New Jersey, each, 80. Also two other great states,
Pennsylvania and Ohio, are not far below, the former having 63 and
the latter 59. The states already above the European average, except
New York, have increased in as rapid a ratio, since passing that
point, as ever before; while no one of them is equal to some other
parts of our country in natural capacity for sustaining a dense
population.
“Taking the nation in the aggregate, and we find its population and
ratio of increase, for the several decennial periods, to be as follows:
1870 42,323,341
1880 56,967,216
1890 76,677,872
1900 103,208,415
1910 138,918,526
1920 186,984,335
1930 251,680,914