Brain and Behavior Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Brain and Behavior explores the intricate relationship between neural processes and human behavior. This course covers fundamental concepts in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neurotransmission, examining how brain structure and function influence cognition, emotion, perception, and behavior. Students will investigate topics such as learning, memory, motivation, mental disorders, and the biological underpinnings of psychological phenomena. Through lectures, case studies, and research analysis, learners develop an understanding of how brain mechanisms contribute to both normal and abnormal behavioral patterns.
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Brain and Behavior An Introduction to Biological Psychology 3rd Edition by Bob L. Garrett
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Chapter 1: What is Biopsychology?
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Q1) Twin studies have shown that:
A)Concordance rates for medical disorders is higher than for psychological disorders.
B)There is a strong case for a genetic basis if the identical twin concordance rate is higher than the rate for fraternal twins.
C)There is only weak evidence that autism has a genetic basis.
D)All of the above
Answer: B
Q2) Genetic effects are:
A)Constant over one's life
B)Active at some times,inactive at other times
C)A constant influence if the environment selects for this
D)Active in a fixed sequence
Answer: B
Q3) Psychologists no longer find it useful to talk about nature versus nurture.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Communication Within the Nervous System
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Q1) Which statement characterizes the absolute refractory period?
A)The neuron cannot fire again because the potassium channels are unable to open.
B)The neuron cannot fire again because the sodium channels are unable to open.
C)The neuron can fire again but only to a stronger than threshold stimulus.
D)The neuron can fire again but only at a much slower rate.
Answer: B
Q2) While taking her GRE exam,LaFawnduh was concentrating so hard it almost hurt and the test left her feeling exhausted.A very large share of the energy LaFawnduh expended in her "mental efforts" was consumed by the ___ in her nervous system.
A)neurons
B)stress hormones
C)sodium-potassium pump
D)mitochondria
Answer: A
Q3) Temporal summation and spatial summation always occur together.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Organization and Functions of the Nervous System
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Q1) Symptoms of menopause,when the hormonal system and body regulation mechanisms are altered,logically involve changes in the:
A)Hypothalamus
B)Thalamus
C)Parietal lobe
D)Frontal lobe
Answer: A
Q2) During the last stage of circuit pruning:
A)Excessive synapses are eliminated
B)The plasticity of neural connections begins to decrease
C)The postsynaptic neuron sends feedback to the presynaptic neuron,encouraging growth
D)All of the above
Answer: D
Q3) In the occipital lobe:
A)The most anterior portion is designated as the primary visual cortex
B)There are secondary areas detecting color,movement,and form
C)Visual information is combined with auditory information
D)Speech information is integrated and recognized
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Methods and Ethics of Research
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Q1) Deception has been accepted as a necessary part of almost any experiment involving human subjects.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The electroencephalogram or EEG was first recorded in 1929 and has been used in diagnosis of ___ and basic research into ___.
A)epilepsy,schizophrenia and depression
B)brain tumors,multiple sclerosis
C)epilepsy and brain tumors,sleep and learning
D)schizophrenia,sleep
Q3) Which stain or method can be used to visualize neurons as well as determine if the neuron in question is active?
A)Immunocytochemistry
B)Crytochromatography
C)Autoradiography
D)Fluorocytochemistry
Q4) fMRI scans provide measures of both structure and activity.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Drugs, Addiction, and Reward
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Q1) Many Asians react to alcohol with intense flushing and nausea due to a(n):
A)Inherited deficiency of aldehyde
B)Excess of ALDH
C)Build up of aldehyde
D)Lack of the enzyme that breaks alcohol down to aldehyde
Q2) During withdrawal from chronic alcohol administration,you are not likely to see:
A)Tremors
B)Sleep disturbances
C)Anxiolytic effects
D)Mood disturbances
Q3) Discuss the personality traits of early- and late-onset alcoholics.
Q4) Alcohol increases anxiety and therefore aggression.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Opiates have hypnotic effects,which means they can:
A)Induce sleep
B)Reduce pain
C)Increase alertness
D)Decrease anxiety
Q6) What are the health consequences of chronic alcoholism?
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Chapter 6: Motivation and the Regulation of Internal States
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Q1) Some examples of incentives are:
A)Hunger,thirst,and cold
B)Money,grades,and approval
C)Thrills,danger,and challenges
D)All of the above are incentives.
Q2) People who are homozygous for the A allele of the FTO gene are ___ more likely to be obese than individuals without the A allele.
A)13%
B)20%
C)41%
D)70%
Q3) The arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus is a vital structure for monitoring the body's nutrient supplies.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The view of modern psychologists regarding instincts is that:
A)They do not exist in humans.
B)Through evolution,instincts have either dropped out or became weakened.
C)They are a major motivator of human behavior.
D)None of the above is true.
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Chapter 7: The Biology of Sex and Gender
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Q1) Identify four regions of the brain that play an important role in sexual behavior.Which of these are more important for male sexual behavior? For female sexual behavior?
Q2) Women typically have sex more frequently at ovulation than at other times in their reproductive cycle.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss what is known about the short- and long-term outcomes of individuals who have undergone ablatio penis.Focus on the case of Bruce-Brenda-David.
Q4) The person's feeling of being male or female is the person's:
A)Sex role
B)Gender
C)Gender role
D)Gender identity
Q5) Increases in testosterone may be the result of sexual activity rather than the cause.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the role of oxytocin in animals and humans.
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Chapter 8: Emotion and Health
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Q1) Damage to the right hemisphere:
A)Enhances recognition of emotions expressed by others
B)Impairs or even eliminates an individual's emotional response
C)Does not influence expression of emotions
D)Increases emotionality
Q2) When a person succumbs to AIDS,he or she dies from:
A)An autoimmune process
B)The inability of T cells to detect invaders
C)Natural killer cell over-reactivity
D)Stress
Q3) When college students were instructed to assume specific facial expressions:
A)They did not change their emotions because they knew the experimenter was asking them to "pose" the expressions.
B)They changed their emotions to match the expression because they wanted to please the experimenter.
C)The students reported feeling emotions that were consistent with the facial expressions they were instructed to create.
D)They were unable to produce the individual facial components of different expressions,so the study was inconclusive.
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Chapter 9: Hearing and Language
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Q1) Frequency is signaled in part by which specific neurons fire.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The malleus,incus,and stapes are:
A)Cells in the inner ear
B)Bones in the middle ear
C)Types of receptor cells
D)Membranes on the oval,round,and tympanic windows,respectively
Q3) One of the primary characteristics of Wernicke's aphasia is:
A)Word searching
B)Labored and nonfluent speech
C)Speech that lacks rhythm and tone
D)Fluent,effortless production of meaningless speech
Q4) The amount of physical energy in a sound wave determines its:
A)Complexity
B)Pitch
C)Amplitude
D)Frequency
Q5) Describe the basis of recovery from aphasia.
Q6) Define and describe three major speech deficits that accompany Broca's aphasia.
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Chapter 10: Vision and Visual Perception
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Q1) People who are completely color blind:
A)Have poor visual acuity
B)Are very light sensitiv
C)Lack functional cones
D)All of the above
Q2) Describe some forms of blindness and the treatments being developed to restore sight in these individuals.
Q3) Which of the following is not a function of the parvocellular visual system?
A)Color perception
B)Visual acuity
C)Response to brief stimulation
D)Movement perception
Q4) The rods and cones are the photoreceptors.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Colorblindness has a genetic basis and is the result of ___.
A)a mutation on the 1st chromosome
B)a single dominant gene
C)a sex-linked gene
D)mutations on several chromosomes
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Chapter 11: The Body Senses and Movement
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Q1) Discuss the different types of: pain;pain receptors;pain fibers;and stimuli for pain.Also describe the various mechanisms for analgesia.
Q2) What is a dermatome?
A)An instrument used to assess sensitivity of different areas of the skin to somatosensory stimuli
B)An area of body surface to which a single spinal or cranial nerve projects
C)The synapse between spinal nerves and cranial nerves for somatosensory functions
D)An area of body surface with more than one touch receptor
Q3) Pain receptors are exactly the same as temperature receptors.
A)True
B)False
Q4) When you are tickled on your left knee,you "feel" the tickle in your:
A)Right somatosensory cortex
B)Left somatosensory cortex
C)Right somatosensory cortex for the most part but to a lesser degree in your left somatosensory cortex
D)Left somatosensory cortex for the most part but to a lesser degree in your right somatosensory cortex
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Chapter 12: Learning and Memory
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Q1) It has been found that:
A)Language memory is stored near Broca's area.
B)Identifying pictures of hand tools uses memories stored in the left temporal lobe and hand motor areas.
C)Identifying the color of an object requires memories stored in the temporal lobe.
D)All of the above
Q2) The reason that hippocampus damage can interfere with forming new memories and yet not alter childhood memories is:
A)Long-term memories are stronger and more difficult to disrupt
B)Because these types of memories are related to two different neurotransmitters within the hippocampus
C)Because these types of memories are located in different areas of the brain
D)None of the above
Q3) Whether the left or right hippocampus is most active in the formation of memories depends largely on the content of the material.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List the different types of memory and how they are connected.
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Chapter 13: Intelligence and Cognitive Functioning
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Q1) About ___ of the difference in intelligence between different individuals is apparently related to differences in brain size.
A)66%
B)0)5%
C)25%
D)11%
Q2) A difference between Einstein's brain and the average brain is that:
A)It was larger in the frontal lobes
B)It was larger in the parietal lobes
C)There was a higher glial cell to neuron ratio
D)There was no difference
Q3) When disorders of social behaviors and autistic-like cognitive abnormalities are considered along with autism,the concordance rate for identical twins is:
A)75%
B)60%
C)over 90%
D)10%
Q4) Why is it difficult to determine how much of intelligence is due to genetics and how much is due to the environment?
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Distinguish between Type I and Type II schizophrenia in terms of symptoms,response to drugs,intellectual impairment,and pathological processes in the brain.
Q2) People with mania are often:
A)Sleep deprived
B)Obsessed with sex
C)Drug abusers
D)All of the above
Q3) The monoamine hypothesis of depression is supported by the fact that drugs that increase serotonin and norepinephrine are effective treatments.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Many researchers believe the vulnerability model is the best explanation for how schizophrenia develops.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Decreased pruning during adolescence is characteristic of schizophrenia.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Sleep and Consciousness
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Q1) Traveling from west to east causes the most severe jet lag.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Normally people fall asleep when:
A)Their body temperature is high
B)Their body temperature is phase delayed
C)Their body temperature is decreasing
D)They have high levels of orexin,increasing temperature in the preoptic area
Q3) The brain structure where adenosine accumulates to inhibit arousal and induce drowsiness is the:
A)Hippocampus
B)Basal forebrain area
C)Pons
D)Thalamus
Q4) During REM sleep:
A)EEG patterns show mostly theta activity
B)The sleeper is in a state of atonia
C)Respiration and heart rates decrease
D)Delta activity predominates
Q5) What is the reverse learning explanation for REM sleep?
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