Alterations in activity at dopamine synapses have been implicated in the development of:
A. anxiety B. schizophrenia C. Alzheimer’s disease D. nicotine addiction
Biological Foundations of Behaviour MCQs
Neurons convey information about the strength of stimuli by varying:
A. the size of their action potentials B. the velocity of their action potentials C. the rate at which of fire action potentials D. all of the above
The highest form of learning is:
A. Imprinting B. Latent learning C. Insight learning D. Conditioned reflex type I
Jim just barely avoided a head-on collision on a narrow road. with heart pounding, hands shaking, and body perspiring, Jim recognizes that these are signs of the body’s fight of the body’s fight-or-flight response, which is controlled by the:
A. empathetic division of the peripheral nervous system B. parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system C. somatic division of the peripheral nervous system D. sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system
Pervez has profound difficulty producing spoken language. if his problem attributable to brain damage would probably be found in:
A. the cerebellum B. Sperry’s area C. Broca’s area D. Wernicke’s area
The __________________ lobe is to hearing the occipital lobe is to vision:
A. frontal B. temporal C. Parietal D. cerebellar
Akhtar is watching a basketball game the neural impulses from his eyes will ultimately travel to his primary visual cortex, but first they must pass through the:
A. amygdala B. hypothalamus C. thalamus D. pons
The hindbrain consists of the:
A. endocrine system and the limbic system B. reticular formation C. thalamus, hypothalamus and cerebrum D. cerebellum, medulla and pons
In people whose corpus callosum has not been severed verbal stimuli are identified more quickly and accurately:
A. when sent to the right hemisphere first B. when sent to the left hemisphere first C. when presented to the left visual field D. when presented auditorily rather than visually
Sounds presented to the right ear are registered:
A. only in the right hemisphere B. only in the left hemisphere C. more quickly in the right hemisphere D. more quickly in the left hemisphere