People with damage to the parietal cortex appear to lack ____ related to voluntary
movements.
a. feelings of intention
b. the ability to make conscious decisions
c. a sense of timing
d. muscle strength
Studies on ____ help clarify the distinctions among different kinds of memory and
enable us to explore the mechanisms of memory.
a. dementia
b. amnesia
c. epilepsy
d. stroke
In his search for the engram, Lashley was testing:
a. Pavlov’s view of classical conditioning.
b. Skinner’s view of operant conditioning.
c. Garcia’s view of taste aversion learning.
d. Bandura’s view of social learning.
Stimulation of the pontomesencephalon:
a. awakens a sleeping individual.
b. decreases alertness in someone already awake.
c. shifts the EEG from short waves to long, slow waves.
d. delays the onset of the next REM period.
Preventing learning is to ____ as suppressing a response is to ____.
a. classical conditioning; operant conditioning
b. operant conditioning; classical conditioning
c. the red nucleus; the lateral interpositus nucleus
d. the lateral interpositus nucleus; the red nucleus
Which of the following drug actions would most likely block the effectiveness of
placebos?
a. blocking capsaicin receptors
b. blocking endorphin receptors
c. stimulating substance P receptors
d. stimulating endorphin receptors
Gender identity can be defined as:
a. the pattern of sex chromosomes one has.
b. the sex one identifies with and calls oneself.
c. sexual awareness present in almost all mammalian species.
d. the set of activities presumed to be common for one sex or another in a society.
A loss of blood will lead to what kind of thirst?
a. Osmotic
b. Non-homeostatic
c. Hypovolemic
d. Postprandial
St. John’s wort appears to act in the same way as:
a. SSRIs.
b. atypical antidepressants.
c. tricyclics.
d. antipsychotics.
REM behavior disorder occurs mostly in:
a. adults.
b. young adults.
c. children.
d. older people.
Increased fear, anxiety, or panic is related to increased activity of ____ and decreased
activity of ____.
a. CCK; GABA
b. acetylcholine; glutamate
c. dopamine; norepinephrine
d. serotonin; NPY
Inappropriate emotions, bizarre behaviors, and thought disorders represent the:
a. disorganized cluster of positive symptoms.
b. psychotic cluster of positive symptoms.
c. disorganized cluster of negative symptoms.
d. psychotic cluster of negative symptoms.
After a loss of blood volume, an animal will:
a. drink whatever it can find, indiscriminately.
b. drink a great deal of pure water.
c. drink excessively concentrated saltwater.
d. alternately drink pure water and excessively concentrated saltwater.
Compared to dendrites, axons usually:
a. form the information-receiving pole of the neuron.
b. are shorter than the dendrites.
c. are covered with myelin.
d. taper in diameter toward their periphery.
Which of the following is TRUE concerning the duration of a self-generated
sleep/activity cycle?
a. It is unreliable in most species, and dependably close to 24 hours only in primates.
b. It is longer if the organism is normally active in the dark.
c. There is little or no variability from one individual to another.
d. It is highly consistent in a given individual in a given environment.
The Behavioral Activation System is associated with:
a. low to moderate arousal, tendency to approach new objects, and pleasant mood.
b. maximum arousal, increased fear, and negative mood.
c. lack of arousal, decreased action, and pleasant mood.
d. increased attention and arousal, decreased action, and fear or disgust.
A split-brain patient who sees something in one visual field and later can point to it with
the left hand must:
a. have seen it in the right visual field.
b. have seen it in the left visual field.
c. be able to say what it was.
d. be able to point to it with the right hand, also.
Output from the paraventricular nucleus acts on the:
a. preoptic area.
b. ventromedial hypothalamus.
c. lateral hypothalamus.
d. baroreceptors.
Sensory information that is not processed by the thalamus includes:
a. olfactory information.
b. visual information.
c. auditory information.
d. somatosensory information.
There are many more rods than cones in the human retina.
People with REM sleep disorder most likely have:
a. damage in the pons and midbrain.
b. damage to areas of the brain that normally produce movements during REM.
c. restricted oxygen intake during sleep due to factors associated with obesity.
d. abnormally high levels of serotonin in the brain.
Multiple sclerosis is one of several:
a. blood-brain disorders
b. neuron diseases
c. demyelinating diseases
d. movement disorders
Information carried to the brain along the chorda tympani comes from the:
a. posterior one-third of the tongue.
b. posterior two-third of the tongue.
c. center of the tongue.
d. anterior two-thirds of the tongue.
Massive cell death in the brain during prenatal development is:
a. an indication of a genetic abnormality.
b. an indication of restricted blood flow to the fetus.
c. usually due to an autoimmune disorder.
d. normal.
Small, charged molecules can cross the cell membrane through:
a. diffusion.
b. ribosomes.
c. mitochondria.
d. protein channels.
PCP can induce both positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
Which of the following describes the transmission of information in a local neuron?
a. The signal decreases in strength as it travels.
b. The signal increases in strength as it travels.
c. The signal strength remains constant as it travels.
d. Local neurons do not transmit any information.
Why do certain people suspect that a diet high in corn may lead to an increase in
aggressive behavior?
a. Corn is low in tryptophan and high in phenylalanine.
b. Corn contains a chemical similar to testosterone.
c. Corn is deficient in thiamine and other B vitamins.
d. Corn is high in fats and contains no proteins or amino acids.
Individuals afflicted with PKU need to avoid:
a. foods high in phenylalanine.
b. foods high in vitamin K.
c. alcohol.
d. sunlight.
Cell bodies in schizophrenics’ brains are especially smaller than normal in the:
a. hippocampus and hypothalamus.
b. thalamus and hypothalamus.
c. hippocampus and prefrontal cortex.
d. medulla and pons.
The stages of neurogenesis that occur for the longest duration are:
a. myelination and synaptogenesis.
b. proliferation and myelination.
c. migration and proliferation.
d. differentiation and migration.
What Bleuler meant by schizophrenia was a split between ____ and ____ aspects of
experience.
a. emotional, behavioral
b. emotional, realistic
c. intellectual, behavioral
d. emotional, intellectual
Ghrelin is associated with ____ in the periphery and ____ in the brain.
a. CCK release, inhibition of the arcuate nucleus
b. leptin release, inhibition of the arcuate nucleus
c. stomach contractions, excitation of the arcuate nucleus
d. stomach distension, excitation of the arcuate nucleus