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Physiological Psychology
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Physiological Psychology explores the intricate relationship between biological processes and behavior, focusing on how the brain, nervous system, hormones, and genetics influence normal and abnormal mental functions. Topics include neuroanatomy, neural communication, sensory and motor systems, emotion, motivation, learning, memory, and the physiological bases of psychological disorders. Through an integrative approach, students gain insights into experimental methods and research findings that connect physiological mechanisms to psychological phenomena, laying the foundation for understanding how mind and body interact.
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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) The proposition that heritable characteristics that provide a survival or reproductive advantage are more likely to be passed on to subsequent generations is known as:
A)Natural selection
B)Genetic advantage
C)Genetic cost
D)Selective advantage
Answer: A
Q3) Humans have far fewer genes than originally thought.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Communication Within the Nervous System
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Q1) Ninety percent of the cells in the brain are:
A)Neurons
B)Glial cells
C)Axonic cells
D)Dendritic cells
Answer: B
Q2) The depolarization arriving at an axon from a dendrite is called a ___ potential because it can ___.
A)action,transmit information
B)graded,vary in speed
C)graded,vary in magnitude
D)ionic,trigger an action potential
Answer: C
Q3) The rate at which a neuron fires depends on the number of:
A)Number of terminals of nearby interneurons
B)Relative strength of excitatory and inhibitory inputs it receives
C)Postsynaptic receptors on this neuron
D)Autoreceptors on this neuron
Answer: B
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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) Recovery from removal of half the brain is most likely:
A)When the damage began early in life
B)When the damage began later in life
C)In a healthy adult as opposed to a younger patient
D)To never occur
Answer: A
Q3) Tammy was rollerblading and hit the back of her head.She probably:
A)Had temporary problems breathing
B)Experienced a few seconds where she couldn't hear
C)Saw stars
D)Was unable to move her fingers for a few seconds
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Methods and Ethics of Research
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Q1) Evoked potentials are a very invasive technology for studying the brain.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Genetic enhancement or selection:
A)Is forbidden in the United States
B)Has been promoted by a summer camp for genetic testing in China
C)Is a procedure that will not be available for at least 10 years
D)Is considered ethical if restricted to behavioral and personality traits
Q3) Immunocytochemistry uses radioactive antibodies,which will block messenger RNA. A)True
B)False
Q4) One of the success stories of gene therapy is that of treatments for SCID. A)True B)False
Q5) Describe the procedures that are made possible by the use of stereotaxic surgery.Explain why this type of surgery provides more information than studying human cases or "nature's experiments."
Q6) To trace neural pathways,a researcher would rely on Golgi stain.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Drugs, Addiction, and Reward
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Q1) MDMA:
A)Was developed as an anesthetic
B)Stimulates the release of dopamine and serotonin
C)Causes dramatic negative effects on cognition,especially memory
D)Is also called angel dust
Q2) In predicting which children are the most likely to become alcoholics,the more consistent procedure would be to:
A)Look for a change in the P3 dip of the evoked potential
B)Examine the effects of the GABAB receptor
C)Look for decreased high frequency EEG patterns
D)Study personality and social factors that would put children at risk
Q3) Fetal alcohol syndrome is the leading cause of ___ in the Western world.
A)Miscarriages
B)Intellectual impairment
C)Multiple births
D)Infertility
Q4) Alcohol increases anxiety and therefore aggression.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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) Storage of glucose and fats is controlled by:
A)Current glucose levels in the blood
B)Glycogen
C)Insulin
D)Adipose
Q2) The last bite of that large pizza you ate by yourself is not as good as the first bite because of:
A)Sensory-specific satiety
B)Learned taste aversion
C)Learned taste preference
D)Overload to the taste receptors
Q3) Glucoprivic hunger occurs when:
A)Glucose levels are low
B)There is a deficit in fatty acids
C)Amino acid levels are low
D)None of the above
Q4) What does the author mean by "motivation is a concept we have invented and imposed on behavior"?
Q5) In what ways are hunger,thirst,and temperature regulation the same? In what ways are they different?
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Chapter 7: The Biology of Sex and Gender
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Q1) What are the advantages and disadvantages of viewing sexual orientation as having a biological basis? In other words,describe the social implications of this view.
Q2) Females of most species are willing to engage in sex only during their ___ period,whereas female humans and some primates ___.
A)estrus,are not willing to engage in sex except outside their estrus cycle
B)menstrual,are willing to engage in sex anytime during their estrus cycle
C)estrus,are willing to engage in sex anytime during their reproductive cycle
D)menstrual,are only likely to engage in sex during their estrus cycle
Q3) An important difference between the organizing and activating effects of hormones is that activating effects:
A)Are always temporary
B)Are irreversible
C)Occur anytime in the individual's lifetime
D)Usually occur early in development
Q4) Which of the following represents an activating effect of a hormone?
A)Maturation of the genitals at puberty
B)The enlargement of the SDN in male rats
C)Growth of breasts at puberty.
D)Masculinization of the genitals during prenatal development
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Chapter 8: Emotion and Health
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Q1) Medical students were found to experience ___ during ___ than during other times of the year.
A)more infections,the start of the semester
B)greater immune system activity,the start of the semester
C)higher blood pressure,exam times
D)more infectious illnesses,exam times
Q2) Which of the following brain regions is most active during negative emotions?
A)Right parietal area
B)Left frontal area
C)Right frontal area
D)Left parietal area
Q3) With respect to body chemistry and aggression,a particularly bad combination would appear to be:
A)High testosterone and high serotonin levels
B)Low testosterone and low serotonin levels
C)High testosterone and low serotonin levels
D)Low testosterone and high serotonin levels
Q4) What is the major difference between acute and chronic stress in terms of effects on the body?
Q5) 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) Language in most people is considered to be primarily a function of the:
A)Right hemisphere
B)Prefrontal cortex
C)Left hemisphere
D)Parietal cortex
Q2) How do we localize sound sources?
Q3) People with Wernicke's aphasia:
A)Have difficulty saying words
B)Have difficulty understanding others
C)Produce utterances that have no meaning
D)B and C
Q4) The dorsal auditory stream enables you to _____ while the ventral stream is active in _____.
A)discriminating different sounds,knowing where a sound is
B)knowing where a sound is,knowing what a sound is
C)complexity analysis,tonotopic analysis
D)pitch analysis,amplitude analysis
Q5) Auditory receptor cells are located in the ossicles.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Vision and Visual Perception
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Q1) One test for color blindness is known as the:
A)Hering test
B)Goldstein test
C)Red-Green-Blue test
D)Ishihara test
Q2) Which of the following describes the anatomical arrangement of the visual system?
A)Information from the left visual field goes to the left side of the brain.
B)Information from the left visual field goes to the right side of the brain.
C)Axons from the temporal portions of the retina cross over to the opposite side of the brain.
D)Axons from the nasal portions of the retina stay on the same side of the brain.
Q3) In ___,each neuron's activity inhibits the activity of adjacent neurons and is likewise inhibited by their activity.
A)lateral inhibition
B)interactive inhibition
C)reciprocal inhibition
D)bilateral inhibition
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Chapter 11: The Body Senses and Movement
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Q1) Naloxone can completely block the pain relief from acupuncture in some cases.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The receptive cells for the functions of the utricle and saccule are:
A)Otoliths
B)Hair cells
C)Cupula and endolymph
D)Cilia
Q3) Damage to the cerebellum would be expected to:
A)Result in inhibited reflexes
B)Disrupt the timing and sequencing of movements
C)Change depth perception
D)Produce difficulties in initiating and inhibiting movement
Q4) Stress can cause the release of endorphins.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Golgi tendon organs respond to muscle stretch.
A)True
B)False
Q6) 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) Damage to which area is most likely to produce anterograde amnesia?
A)Hypothalamus
B)Wernicke's area
C)Occipital lobe
D)Hippocampus
Q2) The two generally recognized forms of Alzheimer's disease are:
A)Early onset and late onset
B)Organic and non-organic
C)Mild and severe
D)Genetic and environmental
Q3) Without working memory you could not:
A)Sing "Happy Birthday" to your mother
B)Recognize your mother
C)Tell your mother what you did in class today
D)Do any of the above
Q4) List the different types of memory and how they are connected.
Q5) A person suffering from Korsakoff's syndrome may mistakenly believe he or she experienced something yesterday that actually happened 20 years ago.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Intelligence and Cognitive Functioning
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Q1) Many experts believe culture-free tests are a purer measure of intelligence.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The original IQ tests were designed for:
A)Children
B)Adults
C)Both children and adults
D)The mentally impaired
Q3) Similar to height,___ is/are increasing across generations.
A)reaction time
B)neural efficiency
C)IQ scores
D)the amount of information in working memory
Q4) Although about 50% of intelligence is due to heredity:
A)This proportion changes across the lifespan
B)There are a lot of data that this is dependent on culture
C)Separating family members early decreases the influence
D)None of the above
Q5) How does brain thickness relate to IQ? Explain.
Q6) What are some criticisms of IQ tests?
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Consistent with the monoamine hypothesis is the fact that:
A)Serotonin modulates mood
B)The noradrenergic system is involved is in temperature regulation
C)Dopamine plays a role in sleep and daily rhythms
D)Acetylcholine acts to increase sensitivity to the environment
Q2) Crow's Type I and Type II schizophrenia are characterized by:
A)Positive symptoms and negative symptoms,respectively
B)Early onset and late onset,respectively
C)Genetic-basis and environmental-basis,respectively
D)Institutionalized and non-institutionalized,respectively
Q3) Hypofrontality in schizophrenia:
A)Can be demonstrated by the poor performance of schizophrenics on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
B)Is related to a decrease in dopamine levels in that area
C)Can be reversed somewhat by amphetamine
D)All of the above
Q4) Why is it difficult to identify specific genes for the affective disorders? Identify two that may play a role in depression.
Q5) What drugs are used to treat schizophrenia and how do they work?
Q6) List three symptoms of PTSD.What brain area seems most affected?
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Chapter 15: Sleep and Consciousness
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Q1) Leslie often walks and talks in her sleep.She is most likely:
A)In REM sleep
B)In non-REM sleep
C)In either REM or non-REM sleep
D)Shifting between REM sleep,non-REM sleep,and extremely short periods of being awake
Q2) Ultradian rhythms are:
A)Shorter than circadian rhythms
B)Longer than circadian rhythms
C)Not biological in nature
D)Not experienced by humans
Q3) Studies of the relationship between sleep and learning show that:
A)Both REM and non-REM sleep are important in consolidation
B)The process involves theta rhythm in the hippocampus
C)A period of consolidation is followed by one of memory erasure
D)All of the above
Q4) What are the three components that most researchers agree should be included in a description of consciousness?
Q5) According to the adaptive explanation for sleep,why do cows sleep less than bats?
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