| Qu.1 |
Write an essay in which you discuss the role of changes in membrane potential in neuronal functioning. In your answer you should consider differences between synaptic and action potentials, and how an action potential is generated. |
| Qu.2 |
Great tits usually lay between eight and twelve eggs in a clutch. One great tit (Ann) is found to lay only four eggs in a clutch in each of her three laying years. Write an essay in which you discuss whether Ann really has a low fitness and how an ethologist could find out. |
| Qu.3 |
Not all animals born get the opportunity to reproduce. Write an essay in which you discuss the processes by which reproduction is restricted to the few. |
| Qu.4 |
A very few individuals are congenitally insensitive to pain (i.e. they are born without the ability to feel pain). Write an essay describing and explaining how changes or abnormalities in the structure or functioning of the nervous system might account for an inability to feel pain. |
| Qu.5 |
Write an essay in which you discuss the role of communication (between animals) in animal behaviour. |
| Qu.6 |
What is a memory? Write an essay in which you consider this question from both the psychological and the neurophysiological perspectives. |
| Qu.7 |
What is meant by the term homeostasis, and how does it relate to motivation and behaviour? |
| Qu.8 |
Using appropriate examples (e.g. bird song, ocular occlusion, sphynx moth antennae), write an essay in which you illustrate developmental explanations of behaviour. |
| Qu.9 |
Write an essay in which you discuss whether it is helpful to distinguish mind disorders from brain disorders. |
