1) the function of interneurons is to communicate:
a.between the brain and the spinal cord
b.between the brain and sensory neurons
c.outside of the brain
d.within a neural circuit
2) a split-brain patient is shown a frog in her right visual field. she is asked to identify
what she sees. she would most likely be able to:
a.point to the frog with her left hand
b.point to the frog with her right hand
c.say what she saw
d.say what she saw and then point with her right hand
3) ana is studying the similarity of monozygotic versus dizygotic twins, examining
characteristics ranging from criminality to math aptitude to introversion. it is likely that
she is working in the field of:
a.child development
b.psychometrics
c.behavioral genetics
d.genometrics
4) if your physician prescribes a drug to treat your depression, what is the likelihood
you will experience relief from your symptoms?
a.quite low because drugs need to be combined with talk therapy to be effective
b.about the same as if the physician had prescribed a placebo
c.about 30 percent
d.about 65 percent
5) sadafa loves indian food, but is careful about what he eats because it hurts his tongue
when he eats very spicy food. sadafa most likely is:
a.a supertaster and has few taste buds in his mouth
b.a supertaster with a very large number of taste buds in his mouth
c.not a supertaster and has a large number of pain receptors in his mouth
d.not a supertaster and has few pain receptors in his mouth
6) _____ consists of interrelated knowledge about the self.
a.self-awareness
b.self-schema
c.self-esteem
d.self-concept
7) an important consequence of having a theory of mind is that:
a.we think of ourselves as having mental as well as physical capacities
b.it allows us to predict how we might behave in various situations
c.it makes us more egocentric in our actions
d.it allows us to understand that others have intentions
8) changes in the strength of neural connections and construction of new synapses is the
process of:
a.retrieval
b.encoding
c.consolidation
d.rehearsal
9) suzanne goes into therapy because she is continually anxious and has trouble
sleeping due to disturbing nightmares. her therapist diagnoses suzanne with
posttraumatic stress disorder and encourages her to talk about distressing childhood
memories. eventually, suzanne recalls having been abused by her uncle as a child. the
problem that this recovered memory poses is that:
a.her therapist has implanted a false memory
b.no one will believe that her kind uncle was abusive
c.it will distract her from her real problems
d.it is difficult to know whether her memory is accurate
10) why are gametes unique?
a.they contain half of every chromosome pair.
b.they allow a doubling of the paired chromosomes.
c.they contain only x or y chromosomes.
d.they are fertilized zygotes.
11) according to research on peoples responses to facial expressions of emotion, which
of the following statements is not true?
a.people are best at identifying emotions in the faces of people from their same culture.
b.people across cultures recognize a general set of basic human facial emotions.
c.people from eastern cultures are unable to recognize neutral versus fearful facial
expressions.
d.people from different cultures show some variation in their recognition of human
facial emotions.
12) magdala blushes very easily; any time she makes even a slight social error, she
turns bright red. magdala regards this tendency as a real social failing and would give a
great deal to stop blushing. you might make magdala reconsider the value of her
blushing by telling her that people who blush:
a.actually have better social skills
b.do so because they are more empathetic
c.look more attractive to the people around them
d.are more readily forgiven their mistakes
13) clozapine was an improvement over previous antipsychotic medications because it:
a.acted specifically on the dopamine neurotransmitter system
b.reduced the negative as well as the positive symptoms of schizophrenia
c.had only moderate parkinsonian effects
d.also worked for disorders such as bipolar disorder
14) according to your textbook, all of these are evidence that autism is a biological
disorder except:
a.there is a high concordance rate of autism in identical twins
b.children diagnosed with autism are more likely to have rare gene abnormalities than
children who are not diagnosed with autism
c.children diagnosed with autism have abnormal amounts of antibodies in their blood
d.the brains of children diagnosed with autism do not develop normally during
adolescence