Behavioral Neuroscience Test Bank
Course Introduction
Behavioral Neuroscience explores the biological foundations of behavior by examining how the brain and nervous system influence actions, thoughts, emotions, and mental processes. The course covers key topics such as neural communication, sensory and motor systems, neuroanatomy, learning and memory, emotion, motivation, and the effects of genetics and environment on behavior. Students gain an understanding of research methods in neuroscience, neurophysiological techniques, and the application of current findings to mental health and neurological disorders. This foundational course bridges biology and psychology, offering insight into how complex behaviors emerge from neural activity.
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Introducing Psychology Brain Person Group 4th Edition by Stephen M. Kosslyn
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Science of Psychology:
History and
Research
Methods
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Q1) The term ________ refers to careful, objective descriptions or numerical measurements of a phenomenon.
A) science
B) variable
C) data
D) hypothesis
Answer: C
Q2) List and describe psychology's parent disciplines.
Answer: philosophy use of logic and speculation to understand the world; physiologystudy of biological factors
Q3) Which of the following questions could be answered best by using the survey method?
A) What is the effect of ingesting alcohol on problem-solving ability?
B) Does wall color affect the frequency of violence in prison populations?
C) Do students prefer a grading system with or without pluses and minuses?
D) What is the relationship between number of hours of study per week and grade point average?
Answer: C
Q4) What is the key idea of Freud's psychodynamic theory?
Answer: Behavior is driven by a collection of unconscious mental processes.
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Chapter 2: The Biology of Mind and Behavior: The Brain in Action
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Q1) If your ________ was damaged, you might walk oddly and have trouble standing normally.
A) pons
B) medulla
C) cerebellum
D) amygdala
Answer: C
Q2) Neurons that carry information from the senses to the spinal cord are called
A) motor neurons
B) interneurons
C) sensory neurons
D) reflexes
Answer: C
Q3) Electroencephalograph is to electroencephalogram as ________.
A) recording is to machine
B) machine is to tracing
C) brain is to wave
D) sleep is to awake
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception: How the World Enters the Mind
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Q1) According to your authors, we identify where objects are by coding ________.
A) categorical spatial relations
B) temporal relations
C) proximal spatial relations
D) occipital relations
Answer: A
Q2) ________ is (are) information that specifies the distance of an object on the basis of its movement.
A) Motion cues
B) Monocular static cues
C) Texture gradients
D) Retinal disparity
Answer: A
Q3) Briefly discuss evidence from research with two different animals that offer some support for the existence of a magnetic sense.
Answer: Many birds migrate long distances each year, guided in part by the magnetic field of the earth; tiny bits of iron found in crucial neurons of these birds apparently play a role in this sense. Also, magnetic fields have been shown to disrupt spatial learning in mice, at least for brief periods of time.
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Chapter 4: Learning: How Experience Changes US
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Q1) For contrapreparedness to occur, the CS must typically represent a threatening object or stimuli.
A)True
B)False
Q2) With observational learning, information gleaned primarily comes from ________.
A) reinforcement
B) watching others
C) neutral stimuli
D) self-motivation
Q3) A monthly paycheck best represents a ________ schedule of reinforcement.
A) fixed interval
B) variable interval
C) fixed ratio
D) variable ratio
Q4) Thorndike was known for his work with ______.
A) a Skinner box
B) a puzzle box
C) modeling
D) monkeys
Q5) List and describe the three characteristics of effective punishment.
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Chapter 5: Memory: Living With Yesterday
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Q1) Which of the following is most likely to be memorable for most people?
A) a photograph of a dead soldier
B) a photograph of a bird
C) a photograph of the earth from space
D) a random photograph
Q2) Repeating items over and over in order to aid memory is known as ______.
A) rehearsal
B) imagery
C) elaborative
D) recoding
Q3) Studying for extended periods of time is the best way to learn something.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is knocked out in a knockout mouse?
A) part or its memory skills
B) all of the genes
C) particular genes
D) part of the brain
Q5) Your memory can be improved by enhancing your encoding. What type of factors will enhance encoding?
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Chapter 6: Language, Thinking, and Intelligence: What
Humans Do Best
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Q1) What four basic elements are required of a "true" language?
Q2) Language production is the ability to understand the message conveyed by words, phrases, and sentences.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are mental categories representing activities, objects, qualities, or situations that share some common characteristics?
A) classes
B) concepts
C) attributes
D) classifications
Q4) An ostrich and a robin differ in how representative they are of the category birds. The robin has more ________.
A) typicality
B) generality
C) prototypeness
D) conceptual rigor
Q5) What is the main difference in the reliability and the validity of an intelligence test?
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Chapter 7: Emotion and Motivation: Feeling and Striving
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Q1) The ______ theory of emotion states that the experience of emotion occurs simultaneously with biological changes.
A) Cannon-Bard
B) James-Lange
C) Plutchik
D) Schachter- Singer
Q2) Charles Darwin believed that the outward behavior associated with emotion is _______.
A) inborn
B) learned
C) independent
D) dependent
Q3) Some psychologists believe that an organism's behavior is motivated by the need to achieve a state of balance in which the body functions effectively-a state called
A) unbalance
B) acquiescence
C) propinquity
D) homeostasis
Q4) What are the four components of emotion?
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Chapter 8: Personality: Vive La Différence
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Q1) When Candace ordered a hot fudge sundae and a diet soda, she told herself that the calories from the ice cream really were not a big deal because the diet soda sort of balanced it all out. Which of Freud's defense mechanisms is motivating Candace?
A) repression
B) rationalization
C) sublimation
D) projection
Q2) Projective tests make use of ________ stimuli.
A) objective
B) paper-and-pencil
C) three dimensional
D) ambiguous
Q3) For Freud, ideas, thoughts, and feelings of which we are currently aware are in the ______ mind.
A) unconscious
B) preconscious
C) collective unconscious
D) conscious
Q4) List and describe the three personality structures identified in Freud's theory.
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Chapter 9: Psychology Over the Life Span: Growing Up,
Growing Older, Growing Wiser
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Q1) Jimmy, a 17-year-old high school student, would likely be in which of Erikson's psychosocial stages?
Q2) Which of the following is a main disadvantage of the cross-sectional design?
A) Individuals of different ages are being compared to one another and they may differ in important fundamental ways.
B) It is relatively expensive.
C) It takes a longer amount of time than a longitudinal study.
D) Participants may drop out due to moving, loss of interest, or death.
Q3) Briefly describe the progression of the developing baby in the womb.
Q4) Which type of attachment style is characterized by babies who do not seem to care very much whether the mother is present or absent, and are equally comfortable with her and a stranger?
A) secure
B) avoidant
C) resistant
D) disorganized
Q5) Briefly state the three key problems that are particularly common among teenagers.
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Q6) What are the two cognitive distortions that adolescents develop?
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Chapter 10: Stress, Health, and Coping: Dealing With Life
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Q1) Positive events cannot function as stressors.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Sleep stages 2 and 3 are collectively referred to as slow-wave sleep.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Chronic users of cocaine may develop which of the following symptoms?
A) increased tendency to be sexually abusive
B) teeth grinding
C) nightmares
D) sense of vulnerability
Q4) Relational aggression is ________.
A) more common in women than men
B) more common in men than women
C) equally common in men and women
D) rarely displayed by men or women
Q5) Nancy firmly believes that she got cancer because her life has always been full of stress. Is she correct? Why or why not?
Q6) How precisely does social support provide the buffer against stress?
Q7) What is the relationship between self-esteem and aggression?
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Chapter 11: Psychological Disorders: More Than Everyday Problems
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Q1) Miguel has a great job, is well educated, and has a loving family. Despite these positive aspects of his life, he experiences anxiety every day. When asked by his therapist the reason for his anxiety, he says, "I don't know why. I don't have any reason to feel anxious, yet I worry all the time." The therapist describes Miguel as having ________.
A) general anxiety disorder
B) post-traumatic stress disorder
C) a phobia
D) panic disorder
Q2) Which of the following factors that contributes to depressive symptoms would be an influence from the level of the group?
A) a deficit of serotonin activity
B) a deficit of norepinephrine activity
C) irrational and self-defeating thought patterns
D) being involved in "punishing" social relationships
Q3) The primary purpose of the DSM-IV-TR is to _____.
A) help psychologists assess only normal behavior
B) keep the number of diagnostic categories of mental disorders to a minimum
C) help psychological professionals diagnose psychological disorders
D) describe the causes of common physiological disorders
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Chapter 12: Treatment: Healing Actions, Healing Words
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Q1) Name three of the common cognitive distortions and describe what they are.
Q2) ________ is credited with developing client-centered therapy.
A) Sigmund Freud
B) Carl Rogers
C) Albert Ellis
D) Aaron Beck
Q3) Which of the following is an aspect of cognitive therapy that is different from REBT?
A) Cognitive therapy encourages the client to view beliefs as hypotheses to be tested.
B) Cognitive therapy encourages all members of the client's family to attend therapy sessions.
C) Cognitive therapy is based on the notion that illogical thoughts are the root cause of psychological problems.
D) Cognitive therapy focuses on thoughts, not feelings or behaviors.
Q4) A treatment that has been repeatedly shown to be at least as effective and safer than ECT is TMS.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are some of the techniques used in psychodynamic therapy?
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Chapter 13: Social Psychology: Meeting of the Minds
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Q1) A person asks you if you would volunteer to counsel delinquent youths at a detention center for two years. When you refuse, she asks you if you could supervise the youths during a trip to the zoo. She is using the ______ technique.
A) lowball
B) door-in-the-face
C) foot-in-the-door
D) bait-and-switch
Q2) Which of the following sayings, "Opposites attract" and "Birds of a feather flock together," are supported in the social psychology literature? Briefly explain your response.
Q3) A car crash woke John from his afternoon nap. When he looked out his apartment window, he saw several people milling around two smashed cars. He decided not to dial 911 because he assumed someone had already called. John's reaction is an example of
A) the bystander effect
B) pluralistic compliance
C) obedience to authority
D) conformity to social norms
Q4) State and briefly define three common attributional biases.
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Chapter 14: Statistics Part B : How to Think About Research Studies
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Q1) Students in Dr. Friedlander's class got the following scores on their first test: 75, 77, 87, 63, 93, 77, 72, 80, 57, 68, 76. What is the range?
A) 77
B) 36
C) 30
D) 75
Q2) The mean, median, and mode are ______________.
A) measures of central tendency
B) measures of variability
C) characteristics of a normal distribution, but not a skewed distribution
D) characteristics of a skewed distribution, but not a normal distribution
Q3) Statistical significance ______________.
A) suggests that a result would be highly probable by chance alone
B) does not necessarily have anything to do with psychological importance
C) is a likely outcome with a small sample
D) occurs when the mean, median, and mode are identical in a data set
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