The relationship of basal metabolism to body mass across species is described by _______ equation.

If a male rat is castrated in adulthood, administration of which hormone will be most effective for maintaining male copulatory behavior?

Descartes believed, incorrectly, that only the brains of humans contain a _______.

Which of the following will show a great deal of lordosis?

The beginnings of modern behavioral neuroscience are attributed to the work of _______, who proposed that cognitive processes are properties of the nervous system.

In studying brain-damaged patients exhibiting language difficulties, Paul Broca discovered that a particular region in the _______ part of the brain appears to be especially important.

Different concentrations of ions inside and outside the neuron, especially _______ ions to which the resting membrane is selectively permeable, account for the resting membrane potential.

Alcohol’s calming influence may be attributable to its ability to _______ secretion.

Which of the following statements about external genitalia is true?

The steroid hormones cortisol and corticosterone are released by the _______ in response to the hormone _______ from the ______.