Health Psychology Exam Review
Course Introduction
Health Psychology explores the psychological factors that influence physical health and illness. This course examines how behaviors, emotions, and social contexts affect well-being, prevention, and treatment of diseases. Students will learn about the biopsychosocial model, the impact of stress and coping, patient-doctor communication, adherence to medical advice, pain management, and lifestyle interventions. Key topics include health behavior change, chronic illness adaptation, and the role of psychology in promoting public health and improving healthcare outcomes.
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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) Who first showed that movement would result from electrical stimulation of the brain?
A)Fritsch and Galvani
B)Broca and Helmholtz
C)Hitzig and Helmholtz
D)Fritsch and Hitzig
Answer: D
Q2) The specific pattern of genes inherited at conception defines an individual's:
A)Phenotype
B)Genotype
C)Genomic imprint
D)Somatotype
Answer: B
Q3) Which of the following statements is most consistent with the materialistic monist view of the mind-brain problem?
A)Both hemispheres of the brain work together.
B)The brain and the mind are both physical.
C)Everything is made of matter and energy.
D)The body is made of matter,whereas the mind is not.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Communication Within the Nervous System
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Q1) Sensory neurons:
A)Control muscles and produce movement
B)Send messages away from the brain toward the periphery
C)Gather information from the environment and convey it into the central nervous system
D)Have cell bodies covered with myelin
Answer: C
Q2) Just as many people want to mistakenly compare the brain's "information processing" capability and speed to that of a computer,the speed of neural impulses is often erroneously compared to the:
A)Speed of light
B)Speed of sound
C)Speed of electrical current
D)The average reaction time for an average adult human
Answer: C
Q3) Spatial summation,by definition,can only occur on a multipolar neuron.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The Organization and Functions of the Nervous System
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Q1) In the mature human brain,most changes consist of:
A)Growth of new neurons
B)Reorganization of connections for existing neurons
C)Neural death
D)Maintaining status quo of the existing neurons
Answer: B
Q2) Association areas in the parietal lobe:
A)Receive information from the primary areas
B)Carry on further processing by combining information from other senses
C)Help a person locate objects in space
D)All of the above
Answer: D
Q3) The sympathetic nervous system ___ the body while the parasympathetic nervous system ___ the body.
A)regulates,tones
B)tones,regulates
C)slows,activates
D)activates,slows
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: The Methods and Ethics of Research
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Q1) 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
Q2) Gene transfer:
A)Is a process that creates a transgenic animal
B)Typically requires a virus to transfer the gene into the cells
C)Could be used to treat human disease
D)All of the above
Q3) What procedure can be used for collection of brain fluids for analysis?
A)Electrical stimulation
B)Chemical stimulation
C)Microdialysis
D)Microelectrodes
Q4) Explain how theories and hypotheses interact to move science forward.
Q5) 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) What evidence has cast doubt on the exclusive importance of dopamine in drug abuse?
Q2) Benzodiazepines replaced barbiturates because:
A)They are not GABA agonists
B)They also have analgesic properties
C)Barbiturates became difficult to obtain
D)They are less likely to produce an accidental overdose
Q3) Which of the following show that medical marijuana is being viewed more positively?
A)Seventeen states have legalized the medical use of marijuana.
B)The American Medical Association has called for a review of marijuana's Schedule I drug classification.
C)The federal government is no longer circumventing state laws regarding medical marijuana and has stopped DEA raids on marijuana clinics.
D)All of the above
Q4) How do the major drugs of abuse alter fetal development and/or later performance?
Q5) How does marijuana challenge our understanding of addiction?
Q6) Discuss the differences between agonists and antagonists.
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Chapter 6: Motivation and the Regulation of Internal States
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Q1) When the current condition does not equal the set point,then:
A)Motivation will decrease and the organism will wait until the current situation changes.
B)Motivation will decrease so the organism is more likely to behave randomly.
C)The organism will be motivated to behave to return the drive to the set point.
D)The organism will be in a temporary state of satisfaction until the drive returns to the set point and motivates directed behavior.
Q2) Injecting 2-DG (a non-nutrient resembling glucose)into the hepatic portal vein:
A)Produces overeating
B)Produces under-eating
C)Increases the storage of fat
D)Increases the utilization of stored fat
Q3) One of the newest proposed pharmaceutical means of addressing obesity has been to administer an appetite-suppressing hormone known as ___.
A)FTO
B)PYY
C)CKK
D)Y-sibutramine
Q4) Describe the different types of thirst and their basic biological mechanisms.
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Chapter 7: The Biology of Sex and Gender
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Q1) Compare and contrast the "neutral-at-birth" position versus the "sexuality-at-birth" position.
Q2) An important difference between the organizing and activating effects of hormones is that organizing effects:
A)Are temporary
B)Are usually but not always reversible
C)Occur only after puberty
D)Mainly occur prenatally or shortly after birth
Q3) A group of male hermaphrodites studied in the Dominican Republic:
A)Had a deficiency in 5-alpha reductase
B)Had a genetic defect that could be a result of frequent intermarriage among relatives
C)Switched from a female to a male gender identity after puberty
D)All of the above
Q4) Women rated the body odor of men as being more attractive when the men differed from them in terms of ___.
A)major histocompatibility complex
B)pheromone levels
C)dopamine levels
D)All of the above
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Chapter 8: Emotion and Health
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Q1) Provide evidence for the negative effects of stress and cortisol on the brain.What brain area is particularly vulnerable?
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) Brain tumors in humans can cause aggression when located in the ___ or the ___.
A)amygdala,hypothalamus
B)hypothalamus,septal region
C)amygdala,septal region
D)septal region,thalamus
Q4) Which of the following is an example of muscular activation that occurs during emotions?
A)External expression of emotions via the facial muscles
B)Increase in body tension during strong emotions
C)Headaches related to stress
D)All of the above
Q5) Define the term stress.What major systems are activated during stressful events?
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Q6) Describe the body's immune system components.What are autoimmune diseases?
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Chapter 9: Hearing and Language
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Q1) To fully participate in a telephone conversation,a person must be able to recognize words at about _____ accuracy and individuals with cochlear implants can recognize words at an accuracy of _____.
A)80%,approx.75%
B)70%,80% and higher
C)70%,60%
D)80%,90%
E)60%,75%
Q2) Broca's area lies anterior and adjacent to the:
A)Motor cortex
B)Auditory cortex
C)Somatosensory cortex
D)Visual cortex
Q3) The absolute refractory period of a neuron discussed earlier in the text is a limitation of ____.
A)frequency theory
B)place theory
C)intensity theory
D)pitch theory
Q4) 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) Most color-sensitive ganglion cells:
A)Respond in an opposing center-surround fashion
B)Use yellow-green and red-yellow color detectors
C)Have receptive fields that retard detection of contrasting brightness
D)All of the above
Q2) The parvocellular and magnocellular systems originate in the:
A)Fovea
B)Lateral geniculate nucleus
C)Ganglion cell layer of the retina
D)Nasal portions of the retina
Q3) A cone:
A)Mediates color vision
B)Contains color photopigments
C)Contains rod protein
D)Receives input from adjacent photoreceptors
Q4) Prosopagnosia never occurs without object agnosia.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the concept of receptive fields and the functions of simple and complex cells.
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Chapter 11: The Body Senses and Movement
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Q1) At least some cases of Parkinson's disease are apparently linked to:
A)12 specific genes
B)The accumulation of aluminum in the cerebral cortex
C)Excessive caffeine consumption
D)Abnormal vitamin metabolism
Q2) In mutant mice who lack substance P or receptors for substance P:
A)All pain sensations were blocked
B)Mild pain was blocked but not more severe pain
C)Severe pain was blocked but not milder pain
D)No effect on pain was observed
Q3) A muscle fiber shortens when ___ filaments essentially climb along ___ filaments,producing a shortened fiber and a contracted muscle.
A)myosin,actin
B)actin,acetylcholine
C)acetylcholine,myosin
D)actin,myosin
Q4) Cerebellum means "little brain."
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the sense of proprioception,its receptors,and the functions of each.
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Chapter 12: Learning and Memory
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Q1) Over 25 days of being tested for retention of a spatial discrimination task,mice showed:
A)Increased activity in the hippocampus and increased activity in the cortex
B)Increased activity in the hippocampus and decreased activity in the cortex
C)Decreased activity in the hippocampus and increased activity in the cortex
D)Decreased activity in the hippocampus and decreased activity in the cortex
Q2) Retrieval with respect to memory refers to:
A)Formation of permanent memories
B)Accessing stored memories
C)Filtering of sensory information in order to make memories
D)None of the above
Q3) Researchers divide amnesia into two stages: before-injury amnesia and after-injury amnesia.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Associative long-term potentiation has been suggested as a neural basis for:
A)Classical conditioning
B)Operant conditioning
C)Working memory
D)Declarative memory
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Chapter 13: Intelligence and Cognitive Functioning
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Q1) The current view is that stimulant drugs such as Ritalin and amphetamines,prescribed to improve ADHD,lead to addiction to illicit drugs later in life.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Intelligence is:
A)The capacity for learning,reasoning,and understanding
B)What we think intelligence is
C)What IQ tests measure
D)All of the above
Q3) The biological abnormality most consistently found in individuals with autism is a(n):
A)Elevated dopamine level
B)Elevated serotonin level
C)Ability to regulate neuromodulator levels
D)Reduced serotonin level
Q4) Intelligence has a heritability of about 50%.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How does brain thickness relate to IQ? Explain.
Q6) Discuss the relationship of genetics and intelligence.
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Chronic symptoms of schizophrenia:
A)Develop gradually
B)Are less responsive to treatment than acute symptoms
C)Are likely to persist over time
D)All of the above
Q2) Many of the environmental factors that play a role in schizophrenia occur during birth or the prenatal period.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following drugs produces the most rapid effect on symptoms of depression?
A)Fluoxetine
B)Ketamine
C)Iproniazid
D)Monoamine oxidase inhibitors
Q4) Phototherapy seems to work because it:
A)Decreases REM
B)Increases REM
C)Resets the circadian rhythm
D)Changes the temperature of the patient
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Chapter 15: Sleep and Consciousness
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Q1) Identify three areas of the brain that play a key role in inducing sleep.How is adenosine involved in sleep production?
Q2) On a busy city street you will,according to your text:
A)Remember more of what you pay attention to
B)Remember most of the activity,even though you may not be aware of it at the time
C)Only attend to those stimuli that are familiar
D)None of the above
Q3) Which of the following is not true regarding zeitgebers?
A)These are time givers of the body that are external.
B)They keep humans on a 24-hour cycle.
C)The primary zeitgeber is light.
D)Zeitgebers are usually biological mechanisms.
Q4) Melatonin is a photopigment found in the ganglion cells of the retina.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Where is the circadian clock for sleep and waking located? Give one piece of evidence for this area being involved in circadian rhythms.
Q6) Why are sleeping pills not a good treatment for insomnia?
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