Brain and Behavior
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This course explores the intricate relationship between the brains structure, function, and human behavior, integrating concepts from neuroscience, psychology, and biology. Students will examine how neural processes underlie behaviors such as perception, learning, emotion, addiction, and social interaction. The course covers fundamental brain anatomy, neural signaling, and sensory systems, as well as neurological and psychiatric disorders. Through lectures and case studies, students will gain insight into how current research in brain science informs our understanding of cognition and behavior, and how brain function is impacted by genetics, environment, and experience.
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Discovering Biological Psychology 2nd Edition by Laura Freberg
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Chapter 1: Introducing Biological Psychology
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Q1) Ethical standards for the use of animal subjects require researchers to
A) demonstrate the necessity of using animals in their project.
B) use only those techniques that do no permanent harm to their animals.
C) not use animals under any circumstances.
D) discuss their proposal with on-campus peers,but not necessarily with members of the community.
Answer: A
Q2) In order to do a single cell recording,electrode tips
A) contained in SQUIDS must be positioned over the area of interest.
B) must be positioned on the surface of the skull bones.
C) must be surgically implanted.
D) must be arrayed on the surface of the scalp.
Answer: C
Q3) What makes it possible to assess activity levels using PET scans and fMRI?
Answer: Busy neurons require more glucose and oxygen than neurons not currently involved in major processing.PET and fMRI are able to track the utilization of these substances by different parts of the brain.
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Chapter 2: The Anatomy and Evolution of the Nervous System
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Q1) What is the limbic system?
Answer: The limbic system is a collection of structures embedded within the forebrain that participate in learning,memory,and emotion.
Q2) Granule cells are usually found in cortical
A) layer I.
B) layers II and IV.
C) layers III and V.
D) layer VI.
Answer: B
Q3) The neuraxis runs in a straight line
A) parallel to the ground in four-legged animals and humans.
B) perpendicular to the ground in four-legged animals and humans.
C) parallel to the ground in four-legged animals but makes a 90 degree turn in the brains of humans.
D) parallel to the ground in humans but makes a 90 degree turn in the brains of four-legged animals.
Answer: C
Q4) What functions are primarily managed by the occipital lobe?
Answer: The occipital lobe is primarily involved with visual processing.
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Chapter 3: Cells of the Nervous System
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Q1) Which of the following is not a function that can be influenced by metabotropic receptors?
A) gene expression
B) the amount of calcium that enters a cell
C) the amount of neurotransmitter released
D) the opening of ion channels
Answer: B
Q2) Chemical messengers in the axon terminal are contained within A) mitochondria.
B) synaptic vesicles.
C) ribosomes.
D) nodes of Ranvier.
Answer: B
Q3) Sodium-potassium pumps move
A) potassium out of the cell and sodium into the cell.
B) sodium out of the cell and potassium into the cell.
C) both sodium and potassium into the cell.
D) both sodium and potassium out of the cell.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Psychopharmacology
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Q1) Black widow spider venom acts as a
A) cholinergic agonist.
B) cholinergic antagonist.
C) dopaminergic agonist.
D) dopaminergic antagonist.
Q2) Describe the functions of one of the major neuropeptides.
Q3) Methylphenidate (Ritalin)produces its stimulant effects by
A) promoting dopamine synthesis.
B) promoting dopamine release.
C) inhibiting the reuptake of dopamine.
D) activating dopamine receptors.
Q4) Which of the following neurotransmitters undergoes its final synthesis step within synaptic vesicles?
A) ACh
B) norepinephrine
C) epinephrine
D) dopamine
Q5) Why do we need a set of criteria in order to identify a substance as a neurotransmitter?
Q6) How does cocaine produce its behavioral effects?
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Chapter 5: Genetics and the Development of the Human Brain
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Q1) Neurons with damaged cell bodies will A) die.
B) experience anterograde degeneration.
C) experience retrograde degeneration.
D) experience transneuronal degeneration.
Q2) Calico cats with two sex chromosomes
A) can be male or female.
B) are almost always male,because the calico condition is sex-linked.
C) are always female,because the calico condition results from x-inactivation.
D) are the result of spontaneous mutations that do not affect the sex chromosomes.
Q3) Which of the following is the best example of a genotype?
A) Nicole has green eyes.
B) Justin is taller than his parents.
C) Lauren has the same hair color as her fraternal twin sister.
D) Anthony has two copies of the APOE<sup>2</sup> allele.
Q4) Phenylketonuria used to produce mental retardation in most cases,but damage can now be prevented by following a restrictive diet until early adulthood.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Vision
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Q1) The cornea obtains nutrients from
A) its own blood supply.
B) the aqueous humor.
C) the vitreous humor.
D) the blood supply of the iris.
Q2) When a rod absorbs a photon of light,retinal changes from the
A) 11-cis form to the all-trans form and merges with opsin to form rhodopsin.
B) all-trans form to the 11-cis form and merges with opsin to form rhodopsin.
C) 11-cis form to the all-trans form,and the rhodopsin molecule breaks apart.
D) all-trans form to the 11-cis form,and the rhodopsin molecule breaks apart.
Q3) Describe the opponent process theory.
Q4) What is an orientation column?
Q5) The majority of the fibers in the optic tracts project to the A) suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus.
B) superior colliculus.
C) inferior colliculus.
D) thalamus.
Q6) What causes astigmatism?
Q7) Why is our vision blurry when we swim underwater without goggles?
Q8) Describe the organization of the lateral geniculate nucleus.
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Chapter 7: Nonvisual Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Which of the following mechanoreceptors have large receptive fields?
A) Meissner's corpuscles and Merkel's disks
B) Pacinian corpuscles and Ruffini endings
C) Meissner's corpuscles and Pacinian corpuscles
D) Merkel's disks and Ruffini endings
Q2) What are the causes and symptoms of neglect syndrome?
Q3) Axons from the otolith organs and semicircular canals synapse in the
A) ventral cochlear nucleus.
B) vestibular nuclei and the cerebellum.
C) thalamus.
D) superior olive.
Q4) Axons from the inferior colliculi synapse in the _________ of the thalamus.
A) medial geniculate nucleus
B) lateral geniculate nucleus
C) ventral posterior nucleus
D) intralaminar nuclei
Q5) What is a dermatome?
Q6) How is the human auditory system especially well adapted for our use of spoken language?
Q7) What is otosclerosis and how is it treated?
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Chapter 8: Movement
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Q1) Slow-twitch fibers are a type of
A) myosin filament.
B) actin filament.
C) myofibril.
D) sarcomere.
Q2) What causes muscles to twitch?
A) depolarization of the muscle fiber produced by an influx of sodium ions
B) depolarization of the muscle fiber produced by an influx of potassium ions
C) hyperpolarization of the muscle fiber produced by an influx of calcium ions
D) hyperpolarization of the muscle fiber produced by an outflow of potassium ions
Q3) Fast-twitch fibers contract up to _________ times more rapidly than slow-twitch fibers.
A) 3
B) 8
C) 10
D) 12
Q4) Describe how the Golgi tendon organs provide feedback about muscle contraction.
Q5) Provide an example of a cholinergic antagonist,and describe its effects on movement.
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Chapter 9: Temperature Regulation,thirst,and Hunger
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Q1) Neurons in the lateral hypothalamus involved with the initiation of complex feeding behaviors may secrete
A) TSH and ACTH.
B) MCH and orexins (hypocretins).
C) MCH and ACTH.
D) TSH and orexins (hypocretins).
Q2) Cells releasing orexins (hypocretins)become more active when A) both leptin and ghrelin levels are high.
B) both leptin and ghrelin levels are low.
C) leptin levels are low and ghrelin levels are high.
D) leptin levels are high and ghrelin levels are low.
Q3) Intracellular fluid makes up about _________ percent of the body's total fluids.
A) 10
B) 33
C) 66
D) 90
Q4) Why do people with untreated diabetes mellitus experience both strong thirst and frequent urination?
Q5) Why does it make sense to treat people with high blood pressure with low-sodium diets and diuretic drugs?
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Chapter 10: Sexual Behavior
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Q1) Compared with the population with typical sex chromosomes,Nielsen and Wohlert (1991)found that populations with sex chromosome abnormalities were associated with A) no increases in criminal activity,mental retardation,or physical disorders.
B) significant increases in mental retardation.
C) significant increases in physical abnormalities.
D) significant increases in mental disorders.
Q2) During his freshman year at a college far from home,James wrote home frequently asking for more money for clothes,as he was continuing to grow taller.His father thought James was just responding to peer pressure,but his mother,a physician,pointed out that it was likely that James was really still growing because he had A) gone through puberty somewhat later than most of his peers.
B) Turner syndrome.
C) congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH).
D) gone through puberty somewhat earlier than most of his peers.
Q3) What is the relationship between birth order and sexual orientation in men?
Q4) Why do some scientists believe that we are attracted to people with symmetrical faces and bodies?
Q5) What processes determine the development of external genitalia?
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Chapter 11: Sleep and Waking
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Q1) Decreases in NREM sleep begin around the age of 65 years in most people.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The sleep of seniors may be more easily disrupted due to less frequent
A) REM episodes.
B) sleep spindles.
C) K-complexes.
D) myoclonia.
Q3) During a sleep attack caused by narcolepsy,the patient initially enters a period of NREM sleep.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Cells forming the retinohypothalamic pathway contain A) rhodopsin,the same photopigment found in rods.
B) a variety of color photopigments.
C) no photopigments.
D) the photopigment melanopsin.
Q5) The frontal lobes are more active during REM sleep than during wakefulness.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Learning and Memory
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Q1) Samantha's grandfather has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.Samantha knows that Parkinson's disease affects the basal ganglia,so she is able to tell her grandfather that he is likely to experience
A) little if any memory impairment.
B) problems with procedural memories,but not declarative memories.
C) problems with declarative memories,but not procedural memories.
D) problems with both declarative and procedural memories.
Q2) Drosophila engineered to produce extra CREB-1
A) were unable to learn and form short-term memories.
B) were able to form short-,but not long-term memories.
C) formed long-term memories more easily than usual.
D) showed habituation and sensitization,but not classical conditioning.
Q3) Human participants with cerebellar damage
A) have difficulty with delay conditioning,but not trace conditioning.
B) have difficulty with trace conditioning,but not delay conditioning.
C) have approximately equal difficulties with both trace and delay conditioning.
D) do not have any difficulties with either delay or trace conditioning.
Q4) Semantic and episodic memories are types of explicit memories.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Lateralization, language, and Intelligence
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Q1) Communication by which of the following meets all ten of Aitchison's language criteria?
A) bees,birds,and mammals
B) birds and mammals
C) humans,great apes,and birds
D) possibly humans only
Q2) Global aphasia typically results from strokes affecting the _________ artery.
A) middle cerebral
B) carotid
C) anterior cerebral
D) posterior cerebral
Q3) The heritability of intelligence is typically estimated to be between _________ percent.
A) 20 and 40
B) 40 and 60
C) 60 and 80
D) 80 and 100
Q4) What is the Flynn Effect,and what does this tell us about the development of mature human intelligence?
Q5) In what ways do apes use language differently than humans?
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Chapter 14: Emotion, reward, aggression, and Stress
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Q1) The upper third of the face is controlled by
A) the ipsilateral facial nerve.
B) the contralateral facial nerve.
C) both the ipsilateral and contralateral facial nerves.
D) both the ipsilateral and contralateral trigeminal nerves.
Q2) Both Jamie and Barb have an exam in statistics tomorrow.Jamie is stressed,but Barb is not.Which of the following is the best reason for the difference in their feelings?
A) You can only take so much stress before you go into exhaustion phase,and Jamie is in it.
B) College is a very stressful time,and Jamie and Barb probably do not have the same level of stress management skills.
C) Stressors exist in the mind of the person perceiving them.
D) Jamie is probably taking more classes than Barb.
Q3) Facial expressions are controlled by the
A) facial or fifth cranial nerve.
B) facial or seventh cranial nerve.
C) trigeminal or fifth cranial nerve.
D) trigeminal or seventh cranial nerve.
Q4) Compare and contrast the three classic theories of emotion.
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Chapter 15: Neurological Disorders
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Q1) Summarize the symptoms and treatment of AIDS dementia complex (ADC).
Q2) Some hemorrhages may result from A) embolisms.
B) thrombosis.
C) low blood pressure.
D) aneurysms.
Q3) In cell cultures,abnormal prions
A) "hijack" DNA in order to produce more abnormal prions.
B) convert normal prions into the abnormal form.
C) increase calcium influx,which triggers apoptosis.
D) enhance the expression of death genes that produce caspases.
Q4) Uncontrolled electrical disturbances in the brain accompanied by changes in consciousness are known as A) seizures.
B) tumors.
C) subdural hemotomas.
D) coma.
Q5) Larger numbers of strokes result from ischemia than from cerebral hemorrhages.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) When patients with schizophrenia fail to perform behaviors considered to be normal,we refer to these "missing" behaviors as _________ symptoms.
A) negative
B) positive
C) active-phase
D) prodromal
Q2) Patients with bipolar disorder
A) do not show exceptional creativity.
B) appear to show higher levels of creativity,similar to healthy controls in creative professions.
C) appear to show reduced levels of creativity.
D) appear to show higher levels of creativity,but were less creative than healthy controls in creative professions.
Q3) What are minicolumns and why might they be significant in cases of autism?
Q4) Which of the following is a negative symptom of schizophrenia?
A) delusions
B) hallucinations
C) disorganized speech
D) social withdrawal
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