Subdivisions of Biopsychology
Which subdivision of biopsychology would study the effects of the drug X on a mouses ability to learn a maze?
A) Experimental psychology
B) Psychopharmacology
C) Psychophysiology
D) Physiological psychology
E) Neuropsychology
B) Psychopharmacology
Which of the following animals are currently the most common subjects of biopsychological research?
A) Monkeys
B) Chimpanzees
C) Dogs
D) Rats and mice
E) Cats
D) Rats and Mice
Research has shown that the brain is...
A) static
B) immutable
C) plastic
D) white
E) gray
C) plastic
Psychology is defined as the scientific study of...
A) psychophysics
B) Behaviour
C) Biopsychology
D) The Brain
E) Conditioning
B) Behaviour
What are the large lateral outgrowths that compose the telencephalon?
A) eyes
B) temporal lobes
C) cerebral hemispheres
D) ventricles
E) testes
C) cerebral hemispheres
Which subdivision of biopsychology is identified with the measurement of scalp EEG activity and ANS activity in humans?
A) Psychophysiology
B) Experimental psychology
C) Physiological psychology
D) Neuropsychology
E) Psychopharmacology
A) Psychophysiology
The main difference between human brains and the brains of mammalian relative is that human brains are bigger and...
A) Whiter
B) All gray
C) Have more cortex
D) Have two hemispheres
E) C and D
C) Have more cortex
What is the corpus callosum?
A) Large medical dictionary
b) Source of hypothalamic hormones
c) Membership directory of the Society for Neuroscience
d) Part of the neocortex
E) Neural pathway that connects the left and right hemispheres
E) Neural pathway that connects the left and right hemispheres
From the outside to the inside, the three meninges are the
A) Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
B) Arachnoid, dura, and pia
C) Dura, pia, and meninx
D) Dura, meninx, and pia
E) dura, arachnoid, and pia
E) dura, arachnoid, and pia
The myelencephalon is often called the...
A) midbrain
B) hypothalamus
C) brain stem
D) medulla
E) cortex
D) medulla
Which isn't one of the major division of biopsychology?
A) Physiological psychology
B) Clinical psychology
C) Neuropsychology
D) Psychophysiology
E) Psychopharmacology
B) Clinical psychology
What is a negative to case-study research?
A) it's always done on sick people
B) it cannot be applied to laboratory animals
C) it's too general
D) the degree to which the results can be generalized is unclear
E) both A and B
D) the degree to which the results can be generalized is unclear
The CNS is composed of two major divisions: the
A) ANS and PNS
B) Brain and brain stem
C) SNS and ANS
D) Spinal Cord and brain stem
E) None of the above
E) None of the above
When a tumor near the cerebral aqueduct causes CSF to accumulate in the brain, the disorder is
A) Hydrocephalus
B) Down syndrome
C) Cranial elephantiasis
D) Multiple sclerosis
E) Parkinson's disease
A) Hydrocephalus
What do the inferior and superior colliculi compose the...
A) thalamus
B) hypothalamus
C) tectum
D) hippocampus
E) cerebellum
C) tectum
What division of biopsychology that studies the neural mechanisms of behaviour through direct manipulation of the brains of lab animals in controlled experiments?
A) Physiological psychology
B) Psychophysiology
C) Neuropsychology
D) Cognitive Neuroscience
E) A and B
A) Physiological psychology
Research that tries to discover how pure research can be applied to solve human problems is called...
A) Applied
B) Pure
C) Translational
D) Confounded
E) Quasiexperimental
C) Translational
In general, afferent nerves carry sensory information
A) to the CNS
B) to the PNS
C) from the CNS
D) from the cortex
E) from the brain
A) to the CNS
The tip of your nose is
A) superior and dorsal
B) Caudal and anterior
C) medial and anterior
D) anterior and posterior
E) ventral and dorsal
C) medial and anterior
What structure is NOT part of the tegmentum?
A) hypothalamus
B) periaqueductal gray
C) substantia nigra
D) red nucleus
E) cerebral aqueduct
A) hypothalamus
Which subdiscipline of biopsychology would study the memory deficits of patients with damage to the frontal portions of the neocortex?
A) Neuropsychology
B) Physiological psychology
C) Psychopharmacology
D) Experimental psychology
E) Psychophysiology
A) Neuropsychology
The first prefrontal lobotomy performed on a human was
A) performed by Lima
B) based on the study of Becky
C) performed with a leucotome
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
D) all of the above
The CSF circulated through the
A) Central canal
B) Lateral ventricles
C) Subarachnoid space
D) All of the above
E) None of the above
D) All of the above
The reticular formation is in the...
A) Brain stem
B) Cortex
C) thalamus
D) Olfactory bulb
E) Spinal cord
A) Brain stem
The lateral geniculate, medial geniculate, and ventral posterior nuclei are all nuclei of the
A) midbrain
B) spinal cord
C) cortex
D) medulla
E) thalamus
E) thalamus