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Biological Psychology explores the intricate relationship between biological processes and behavior, focusing on how the brain, nervous system, hormones, and genetics influence the way we think, feel, and act. This course examines the physiological bases of psychological phenomena such as sensation, perception, emotion, memory, learning, and mental disorders. Students will gain an understanding of neuroanatomy, neural communication, and the methods used to study the biological foundations of behavior, providing a comprehensive overview of how biology shapes the mind and human experience.
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Cognitive Neuroscience 3rd Edition by Michael S. Gazzaniga
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Chapter 1: A Brief History of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Q1) Rationalism is the philosophical position that knowledge
A)originates from sensory experience.
B)must be experimentally tested.
C)must be deduced and justified through reason.
D)is globally distributed in the cortex.
Answer: C
Q2) Thorndike's Law of Effect
A)stated that much knowledge is innately specified due to natural selection.
B)was written to oppose Darwin's theory of natural selection.
C)stated that a behavior that is followed by a reward is likely to occur again.
D)was written to oppose the behaviorists.
Answer: C
Q3) The two main philosophical positions regarding how humans come to know things are associationism and empiricism.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Cellular Mechanisms and Cognition
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Q1) The ________ structure of a protein refers to how chains of amino acids coil to form characteristic patterns such as the alpha-helix.
A)primary
B)secondary
C)tertiary
D)quaternary
Answer: B
Q2) Most antidepressants are
A)dopamine agonists.
B)dopamine antagonists.
C)serotonin agonists.
D)serotonin antagonists.
Answer: C
Q3) If the sum of the excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs)causes a postsynaptic neuron to reach its threshold,then the postsynaptic neuron will generate an action potential.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Neuroanatomy and Development
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Q1) All of the structures listed here are major components of the basal ganglia EXCEPT the
A)globus pallidus.
B)amygdala.
C)caudate nucleus.
D)putamen.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following statements regarding the prenatal development of the human nervous system is CORRECT?
A)The brain develops from ectoderm cells,whereas the spinal cord develops from mesoderm cells.
B)Ectoderm cells are the precursors of the entire nervous system.
C)Glial cells are derived from endoderm,whereas neurons are derived from ectoderm.
D)Mesoderm cells are the precursors for all parts of the human nervous system.
Answer: B
Q3) Together,the pons and medulla form the hindbrain.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Q1) The term ________ is used to describe the situation in which group 1 is impaired on task X and unimpaired on task Y and group 2 is impaired on task Y and unimpaired on task X.In contrast,the term ________ is used when group 1 is impaired on task X and unimpaired on task Y and group 2 is unimpaired on both tasks X and Y.
A)single dissociation / double dissociation
B)double dissociation / single dissociation
C)double dissociation / triple dissociation
D)triple dissociation / double dissociation
Q2) One of the experimental strengths of brain-lesion methods in animals,compared to human neuropsychology,is that
A)animal work can be truly experimental,whereas with humans we are limited to correlational inferences.
B)with animal work,we can be confident that the effect of a lesion eliminates the contribution of a single structure.
C)humans,but not other animals,often develop compensatory strategies to minimize the consequences of a lesion.
D)with animals,but not humans,we can create temporary "lesions" using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Hedwig the owl is having difficulty localizing sounds in space.After performing a series of studies,you realize that she has trouble localizing sounds in the left-right dimension,but she seems to know whether they are coming from above or below.Of the following choices,which brain region is the most likely to be impaired?
A)The cochlear nucleus
B)The magnocellular nucleus
C)The angular nucleus
D)The lemniscal nucleus
Q2) A patient who has a focal brain injury to the human analog of area MT would demonstrate all of the following for visually presented stimuli EXCEPT
A)accurate shape discrimination.
B)accurate velocity discrimination.
C)accurate hue discrimination.
D)accurate object recognition.
Q3) The primary auditory cortex is located in the A)medial geniculate nucleus.
B)inferior temporal lobe.
C)lateral geniculate nucleus.
D)superior temporal lobe.
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Chapter 6: Object Recognition
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Q1) When a person who has learned to read proficiently subsequently develops reading problems as a result of brain injury,this deficit is called
A)acquired agraphia.
B)apperceptive agnosia.
C)acquired alexia.
D)apperceptive ataxia.
Q2) Optic ataxia is an inability to
A)name familiar objects.
B)read,acquired as an adult.
C)recognize familiar visual objects.
D)use visual information to guide movements.
Q3) Patients with apperceptive agnosia typically present with large scotomas or a hemianopsia.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Patients with associative agnosia can typically describe the functions of objects if they are given the names of the objects verbally.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Control of Action
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Q1) In the period of time immediately following focal brain injury to the supplementary motor cortex,patients may reach out and grasp objects with the affected arm when they have not been asked to do so,or even when they have been explicitly told not to do so.This is called
A)apraxia.
B)hemiplegia.
C)Huntington's disease.
D)alien hand syndrome.
Q2) Parkinson's disease results from cell death in the _________,which is a part of the
A)substantia nigra / cerebellum
B)substantia nigra / basal ganglia
C)striatum / cerebellum
D)striatum / basal ganglia
Q3) Which of the following is NOT an effector?
A)The brain
B)The jaw
C)The arm
D)The back
Q4) How is the planning of a complex movement hierarchical? Provide an example.
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Chapter 8: Learning and Memory
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Q1) Describe the phenomenon of long-term potentiation (LTP).How does blocking LTP affect memory?
Q2) Which of the following statements is true of the kind of amnesia demonstrated by people with bilateral hippocampal damage (like Patients H.M.and R.B. )or people with diencephalon injury (like people with Korsakoff's syndrome)?
A)They forget their dates of birth.
B)They can still learn new skills such as the serial reaction time task after the injury.
C)They remember meeting new people after the injury.
D)They have good memory for learning facts after the injury but fail to show priming effects.
Q3) Of the following choices,damage to the ________ is most likely to result in impairment to the visuospatial sketch pad,or visual working memory.
A)parietal-occipital cortex
B)medial temporal lobe
C)hippocampus
D)perisylvian region
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Chapter 9: Emotion
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Q1) You conduct an experiment in which you expose a rat repeatedly to a 440 Hz tone and an electric shock.After a few trials,the rat begins to show signs of fear in response to the tone.In this paradigm,the electric shock is the ________ while the tone is the
A)conditioned stimulus / unconditioned stimulus
B)unconditioned stimulus / conditioned stimulus
C)conditioned response / unconditioned response
D)unconditioned response / conditioned response
Q2) Which of the following is true about the role of the amygdala in explicit emotional learning?
A)The amygdala performs a modulatory role in declarative memory.
B)The amygdala is thought to enhance explicit memory retrieval in the hippocampus.
C)The amygdala is thought to enhance the initial encoding of explicit memories.
D)None of the above: The amygdala is primarily involved in implicit,not explicit,emotional learning.
Q3) How might you investigate the assertion that basic facial expressions of emotion are universal,rather than being culturally relative? Describe an experiment that might inform this issue.
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Chapter 10: Language
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Q1) Language errors in which a person substitutes words that are related in meaning for one another are called
A)lemma confusions.
B)syntactic substitutions.
C)semantic paraphasias.
D)orthographic intrusions.
Q2) What role does the right hemisphere play in language comprehension? Describe two experimental techniques that would allow you to dissociate the contribution of the right hemisphere from that of the left.
Q3) Patient "Tan" studied by the neurologist Broca had great difficulty in generating spontaneous speech and was unable to utter any word other than the nonsense syllable "tan." Postmortem autopsy of Tan's brain revealed
A)abnormal EEG signals from the left frontal operculum.
B)softening of tissue in the left inferior frontal cortex.
C)cerebral hemorrhage in the right inferior frontal lobes.
D)demyelination in a region of the left anterior frontal lobes.
Q4) What is the difference between Broca's aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia? Where are Broca's area and Wernicke's area located in the brain?
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Chapter 11: Hemispheric Specialization
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Q1) A general function that is associated with RIGHT-hemisphere activity in most people is
A)language production and comprehension.
B)comprehension and memory for meaningful gestures.
C)the word superiority effect.
D)visuospatial processing.
Q2) Split-brain patients are asked to detect targets that appear briefly on a computer screen.On some trials,the targets are preceded by cues that correctly indicate their upcoming location.The detection advantage produced by the cues
A)occurs only if the cue and subsequent target are shown in the same visual field.
B)occurs only if the cue and subsequent target appear in the left visual field.
C)occurs only if the cue and subsequent target appear in the right visual field.
D)occurs regardless of which visual field contains the cue and target.
Q3) How do the two hemispheres differentially process the local and global elements of visual hierarchical stimuli? How does the spatial-frequency hypothesis explain this?
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Chapter 12: Attention and Consciousness
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Q1) The observation that participants are actually slower to detect targets that appear at recent previously attended locations is called
A)attentional fatigue.
B)exogenous cuing.
C)inhibition of return.
D)pop-out search.
Q2) Attention can be directed to both spatial and nonspatial features of target visual stimuli.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The symptoms of patients with neglect and Balint's syndrome reflect disruption of the ________ pathway.
A)"what"
B)"where"
C)geniculostriate
D)tectopulvinar
Q4) How do early- and late-selection models of attention differ? Propose a dichotic listening experiment that would provide evidence to distinguish between these two models.
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Chapter 13: Cognitive Control
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Q1) Which of the following is true about the prefrontal cortex?
A)The prefrontal cortex seems to play a role in working memory but not in long-term storage of information.
B)The prefrontal cortex seems to play a role in long-term storage of information but not in working memory.
C)The prefrontal cortex is important for both working memory and long-term storage of information.
D)The prefrontal cortex is not essential for either working memory or long-term storage of information.
Q2) For situations in which no routine procedure can be used to generate an appropriate response,this type of mechanism is used to select the best schema control unit for translation into action.
A)The somatic marker hypothesis
B)Utilization behavior
C)The supervisory attentional system
D)Source encoding
Q3) The key function of the inferior temporal lobe is to evaluate response conflict.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Social Cognition
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Q1) In an experiment by William Kelley and colleagues,participants judged personality adjectives in relation to either themselves or the U.S.president.The results suggested that memory for words processed in relation to the self was ________ than that for words processed in relation to the U.S.president,and that the former condition resulted in greater neural activity in the ________ cortex.
A)better / orbitofrontal
B)worse / orbitofrontal
C)better / medial prefrontal
D)worse / medial prefrontal
Q2) Information processed in relation to the self is better remembered.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Neuroeconomics is the field of philosophy that discusses the rights and wrongs of the treatment of or enhancement of the human brain.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the somatic marker hypothesis? Describe a neuropsychological study-real or hypothetical-that would support or disprove the somatic marker hypothesis.
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Chapter 15: Evolutionary Perspectives
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Q1) One limitation of the transgenic mouse is that because of ________,a change in one gene results in multiple changes to the ________.
A)mutation / phenotype
B)mutation / genotype
C)genetic pleiotropy / phenotype
D)genetic pleiotropy / genotype
Q2) All of the following represent differences between the human brain and the brains of other species EXCEPT
A)the human brain contains a greater number of cortical columns than do the brains of other species.
B)the dendritic spines in human neurons have different physiological properties than the dendritic spines found in other species.
C)human brains are comprised of two basic cell types (neurons and glia);other species have only one basic cell type.
D)the pattern of connectivity between specialized brain regions is different in humans than in other species.
Q3) What is the difference between an adaptation and an exaptation?
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