Behavioral Neuroscience Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Behavioral Neuroscience explores the biological foundations of behavior by examining how the brain, nervous system, hormones, and genetics influence actions, thoughts, and emotions. The course delves into neural mechanisms underlying processes such as perception, learning, memory, motivation, and emotion, while also addressing the role of neuroanatomy and neurochemistry in both normal and abnormal behaviors. Integrating perspectives from psychology, biology, and physiology, students gain a comprehensive understanding of how complex behaviors emerge from neural activity and how neuroscience informs clinical, cognitive, and social dimensions of behavior.
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Psychological Science 3rd Canadian Edition by Michael Gazzaniga
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Which of the following is most closely associated with the concept of the unconscious?
A) Sigmund Freud
B) B.F. Skinner
C) Wilhelm Wundt
D) William James
Answer: A
Q2) The findings from the brain imaging study of racial attitudes conducted by Phelps and Banaji indicated that:
A) some white university students showed activation in the frontal cortex when viewing familiar black faces
B) some white university students showed activation in the frontal cortex when viewing unfamiliar black faces
C) some white university students showed heightened activation in the amygdala when viewing familiar black faces
D) some white university students showed heightened activation in the amygdala when viewing unfamiliar black faces
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) When collecting data in a study, if researchers unconsciously code a person's behaviour to match their expectations, we say that there is:
A) a directionality problem
B) an observer bias
C) a sampling error
D) reactivity
Answer: B
Q2) The Hawthorne effect refers to changes in behaviour associated with:
A) reactivity
B) observer bias
C) experimenter expectancy
D) informed consent
Answer: A
Q3) Researchers are likely to choose a correlational design when:
A) they are concerned that there will be a third variable problem
B) the directionality problem is likely
C) it is impossible to control the variables being studied
D) they are using psychophysiological assessments
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations
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Q1) Which statement best summarizes the research examining differences between men's and women's brains?
A) Men have larger and thus superior brains.
B) Women have denser and thus superior brains.
C) The brains of men and women may differ such that they accomplish the same task equally, but in different ways.
D) There are no differences between the brains of men and women.
Answer: C
Q2) If your house was "selectively permeable" like a neuron, which of the following would be most likely?
A) Everyone would be welcome to enter.
B) All the doors would be open.
C) Only certain people would be allowed inside.
D) No one would be allowed to leave.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Mind and Consciousness
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Q1) Circadian rhythms can best be described as:
A) special heartbeats that trigger the heart to increase or decrease the circular flow of blood
B) the rise and fall of the sun each day
C) biological clocks controlling hormone levels, temperature, and the sleep cycle
D) the ancient art of star tracking, which is used today to figure out sleep patterns
Q2) Marijuana has been known to produce memory effects in long-time users. This is most likely due to the altering of a large percentage of ____________ receptors in the ____________ of the brain.
A) THC; frontal lobe
B) THC; hippocampus
C) ACTH; frontal lobe
D) ACTH; hippocampus
Q3) All of the following occur during REM sleep, EXCEPT for:
A) delta waves
B) genital arousal
C) beta waves
D) muscle paralysis
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Melody is looking up a phone number in a phone book with tiny print. She will be most likely able to read the number if she looks at the phone book with her ____________ because it has the largest number of ____________.
A) fovea; rods
B) periphery; rods
C) fovea; cones
D) periphery; cones
Q2) When driving on the highway, you notice that the bushes at the side of the road appear to be passing very quickly. In the distance you can see a very tall tree and you notice that it takes half an hour to drive past it. What depth cue is causing this speed discrepancy?
A) motion parallax
B) compensatory movement
C) stroboscopic movement
D) changes in linear perspective
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) Aldo cannot get the answer to a chemistry problem, even after sitting at his desk for an hour. He gets up and goes for a walk. Suddenly, the answer comes to him, even though he appears to have stopped thinking about it for a while. This phenomenon is called:
A) insight learning
B) latent learning
C) cognitive map learning
D) economic principled learning
Q2) Mahera wants to teach a mouse to put half its food in a small box. Its reward will be to get twice as much food later. Why will this be difficult?
A) Mice are not responsive to positive reinforcement.
B) It will not be difficult; any animal can be trained to do this.
C) The trainer would need to select a special breed of mouse.
D) Evolutionary adaptations make the mouse want to keep all its food.
Q3) Setting specific dates for the midterm and final is an example of testing on a:
A) variable interval
B) variable ratio
C) random assignment
D) fixed interval
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Chapter 7: Attention and Memory
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Q1) People have better memories for events that involve negative emotions. According to evolutionary theory, this suggests that negative emotions:
A) make information easier to rehearse
B) emphasize information important to survival
C) increase consolidation of information
D) act as mnemonics for information
Q2) Raakee was walking home late at night. She was terrified because she thought she heard someone following her. Raakee realized later that she could remember exactly what the street looked like when she thought she heard the footsteps. This experience highlights the role of the ____________ in ____________.
A) amygdala; processing fear and danger
B) frontal lobe; processing fear and danger
C) amygdala; tagging the event for the future
D) frontal lobe; tagging the event for the future
Q3) False memories occur because:
A) everyone is absentminded
B) people have memory biases
C) consolidation is an imperfect process
D) encoding is a selective process
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Chapter 8: Thinking and Intelligence
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Q1) Khoury has very little food in his kitchen. Rather than inventorying his ingredients before starting dinner, he considers recipes and looks to see if he has the required ingredients. Khoury is solving the problem of making dinner by:
A) restructuring
B) working backward
C) developing an analogy
D) using an algorithm
Q2) A larger volume of neuronal cell bodies in areas that support attentional control is related to ____________ intelligence, but not ____________ intelligence.
A) general; emotional
B) emotional; general
C) crystallized; fluid
D) fluid; crystallized
Q3) Galton believed that the most important factor in intelligence was:
A) the amount of available neural storage
B) the efficiency of the brain
C) the relative size of lobes of the brain
D) a dominant left hemisphere
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) In the mythical country of Xacandra, people experience an emotion that they call blegthium. Though everyone agrees the people experience blegthium, it has proven very difficult to define or to associate with physiological correlates. Cross-cultural Xacandran psychologists have not been able to consistently find an emotion comparable to blegthium in other cultures. In terms of the circumplex model of emotions, blegthium is a ____________ emotion.
A) universal
B) primary
C) secondary
D) cross-culturally congruent
Q2) Gavan had a wonderful dinner last night. He is so full in the morning that he can't imagine eating. When he gets to his early morning meeting he finds that pastries are available. Though everyone else is eating and the pastries look and smell delicious, Gavan is too full to try one. Yet a few minutes later he finds that he is quite hungry. The best explanation for Gavan's hunger would come from:
A) a failure of satiety cues
B) poor self-regulation
C) classical conditioning
D) observational learning
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Chapter 10: Health and Well-Being
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Q1) Farhan has had to deal with repeated amounts of high stress. His parents both have chronic diseases, he and his wife are arguing constantly, and he just got a new job which demands a lot of his time. According to research on the effects of stress, Farhan will:
A) probably be divorced in the next year
B) show a decreased immune response to infectious diseases
C) develop a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia
D) develop a Type A personality
Q2) Research in different cultural contexts reveals that obesity is:
A) stigmatized in some of them and respected in others
B) universally rejected and devalued
C) associated with lower economic status, particularly in developing countries
D) positively associated with social status in most cultures
Q3) Based on what you know about the prevalence rates of smoking, where would you expect to find the most lung cancer deaths in the next 20 years?
A) urban cities in Canada
B) rural communities in Canada
C) China
D) France
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Chapter 11: Human Development
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Q1) In terms of sensory capabilities, you came into the world with:
A) good visual sensitivity but unable to smell or taste
B) the ability to process stimuli related to all five senses
C) good taste and smell but only a minimal sense of hearing
D) excellent vision but poorly developed senses of smell and taste
Q2) A central criticism of Piaget's theory of development takes issue with his argument that:
A) development proceeds in stages
B) differentiating self from objects is as important as Piaget makes it appear
C) individuals go through the developmental stages in the same order
D) object permanence develops more quickly in females than males
Q3) What is the influence of the environment on brain development?
A) none; brain development is controlled by genes
B) none; the brain is fully developed at birth
C) substantial; but the influence is primarily through diet
D) substantial; a broad range of environmental factors affects brain development
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) The discussion of the United States' policies needed to handle illegal immigration has been controversial. The claim has been made that many people who say they have no objection to immigration from Mexico so long as it is legal are really showing a bias against Mexican Americans. The best way to test this claim would be to have people who hold the belief that they object to illegal immigration but are not prejudiced against Mexican Americans:
A) take a lie detector test
B) take a long attitude questionnaire
C) take the Implicit Association Test
D) take the Thematic Apperception Test
Q2) Creativity is undermined when extrinsic motivation replaces intrinsic motivation. Which concept in social psychology could provide the best account for this finding?
A) postdecisional dissonance
B) cognitive dissonance
C) attributional bias
D) social loafing
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Chapter 13: Personality
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Q1) In Eysenck's view, people who score high on the neuroticism scale tend to:
A) be aggressive and impulsive
B) experience little variation in mood or emotion
C) experience much mood variability
D) be self-centred
Q2) In terms of the number of structures (e.g., the id) that Freud believed made up the mind, which other theory is most similar?
A) the Five-Factor Theory
B) Eysenck's Hierarchical Model of Personality
C) Tellegen's Two-Factor Theory
D) Allport's model consisting of a limitless number of personality traits
Q3) Your friend says her dog, a cocker spaniel, has a very outgoing personality. On the basis of research reported in your textbook you argue that:
A) this is a projection of her views of humans onto other animals
B) this is entirely possible
C) she is using her stereotype of cocker spaniels to come to this conclusion
D) animals do not possess personality in the sense that psychologists use that term
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a primary symptom of autism?
A) difficulties with verbal communication
B) lack of awareness of others, even caregivers
C) restricted activities and interests
D) mental retardation
Q2) Tom has often been in trouble with the justice system, appearing in court more than 20 times for instigating fights, stealing cars, or robbery. Tom seems to have no empathy for his victims, and has even laughed when talking about stealing from or hurting them. Tom would likely be diagnosed with:
A) multiple identity disorder
B) amoral apathy syndrome
C) anti-social personality disorder
D) narcissistic personality disorder
Q3) In which of the following disorders is the person LEAST aware of the maladaptive nature of her or his behaviour?
A) obsessive-compulsive disorder
B) phobic disorder
C) personality disorder
D) depression
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Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Dora the Explorer is on a mission to find a completely healthy society in which people experience no mental disorders of any kind. However, she has never been able to find such a society. Based on the systems approach, her mission may never uncover a completely healthy society because:
A) people are biopsychosocial organisms and any aspect of an organism may be dysfunctional
B) people exist in families and larger social units and just one individual can hurt the entire system
C) people always strive for personal achievement and fulfillment in a society with outdated laws and regulations that inhibit an individual's free expression
D) people fail to understand that they have a faulty cognitive system, and this faulty system causes them to think illogically
Q2) Which of the following people who were diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 20 will have the best prognosis?
A) Slim, a man who lives in a developed country
B) Hassim, a man who lives in a developing country
C) Shauna, a woman who lives in a developed country
D) Sariyah, a woman who lives in a developing country
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Chapter 16: Cultural Psychology
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Q1) TKS has been labelled the altruistic phobia because:
A) sufferers are concerned that they will make others feel uncomfortable
B) sufferers are concerned that they will give TKS to others
C) excessive generosity is one of the symptoms of TKS
D) its sufferers are frequently altruistic
Q2) Chinese sufferers of depression are more likely than North Americans to experience:
A) feelings of guilt
B) difficulty concentrating
C) headaches
D) all of the above
Q3) The statement "I find it so annoying to go shopping with my friends when I prefer watching baseball" is most likely made by:
A) a male
B) a female
C) a Canadian
D) a Japanese
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