Study Question For Brain And Behavior
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The brain has the capacity to influence our thoughts. Front part of the brain is involved in planning, organizing, problem solving, selective attention, personality and a variety of higher cognitive functions. Take the study questions below on brain and behavior and get to learn more about the relationship between the two.
- 1.If the SCN is detached from the rest of the brain by a series of knife cuts, its rhythmicity
- A.
Diasappears
- B.
Becomes abnormally short
- C.
Persists
- D.
Becomes infradian
- 2.In mammals, what is the effect of lesions of visual cortex on the rhythms of the SCN?
- A.
They become free-running
- B.
They are not altered
- C.
They shorten
- D.
They cannot be entrained
- 3.The cortical EEG pattern of the encephale isole animal is characterized by
- A.
Sustained sleep patterns
- B.
Intense arousal patterns
- C.
Alternating periods of arousal and sleep
- D.
Intense seizure activity
- 4.One of the ways the brain influences the immune system is through the
- A.
Dorsal root ganglia
- B.
Spinal cord
- C.
Autonomic nervous system
- D.
Gastric tract
- 5.In men, simply backing the losing team at a baseball game is sufficient to
- A.
Decrease circulating testosterone levels
- B.
Increase circulating cortisol levels
- C.
Decrease serotonin levels
- D.
Increase circulating testosterone levels
- 6.The theory of stress _________ holds that early stressful experiences may lead to reduced susceptibitity to stress in adulthood
- A.
Tolerance
- B.
Sensitization
- C.
Immunization
- D.
Habituation
- 7.On the basis of studies of the properites of phencyclindine, a _______ hypothesis of schizophrenia has been advanced.
- A.
Serotonin
- B.
Dopamine
- C.
GABA
- D.
Glutamate
- 8.In normal subjects, the substance dexamethoasone
- A.
Increases levels of circulating cortisol
- B.
Suppresses cortisol levels
- C.
Produces major peak periods of cortisol secretion
- D.
Enahcnes the rlease of ACTH
- 9.
- A.
LSD
- B.
Heroin
- C.
Amephetamine
- D.
Aspirin
- 10.During REM, thermoregulation
- A.
Is imparied
- B.
Is maintained in a normal manner
- C.
Depends on body temperatue
- D.
Is enhanced
- 11.Stages 3 and 4 SWS are especially prominent during ______ of a night's sleep.
- A.
Sleep periods during the latter half
- B.
Sleep periods during the inital half
- C.
Only the last complete cycle
- D.
The middle third
- 12.In comparision with adults, the REM sleep of children
- A.
Takes up a greater proportion of the overall amount of sleep
- B.
Occupies a smaller proportion fo the overall amount of sleep
- C.
Is amuch more predicatable protion of the overall amount of sleep
- D.
Is far less intense in its basic characteristics
- 13.
- A.
Nose wrinkle
- B.
Tense mouth
- C.
Play face
- D.
Grimace
- 14.The muscle that moves the jaw is contrlled by the _______ nerve
- A.
Trochlear
- B.
Facial
- C.
Trigeminal
- D.
Hypoglossal
- 15.According to Hans Seyle, the initial response to stress is a state called the
- A.
General adaption syndrome
- B.
Alarm reaction
- C.
Resistance stage
- D.
Exhaustion phase
- 16.A principla effect of the drug chloropromazine is the
- A.
Release of norepinephrine
- B.
Postsynaptic blocking of acetylcholine
- C.
Postsynaptic blocking of dopamine receptors
- D.
Facilitation of GABA actions
- 17.
- A.
Phobic disorder
- B.
Panic disorder
- C.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- D.
Bipolar disorder
- 18.Benzodiazephine drugs have which of the follwoing effects of GABA synapses?
- A.
Complete blocking of inhibition
- B.
Enhancement of GABA-mediated inhibiton
- C.
Enhancement of GABA-mediated excitation
- D.
Reduction of chloride permeability
- 19.The cells of the raphe nucleus have high levels of
- A.
Acetylcholine
- B.
GABA
- C.
Norepinephrine
- D.
Serotonin
- 20.A review of research on facial asymmetry in emotional expression concludes that the ______ cerebral hemisphere is dominant for perception of facial displays of _______ emotions
- A.
Left; unpleasant but not pleasant
- B.
Left: both pleasant and unpleasant
- C.
Right; both pleasnat and unpleasant
- D.
Right; pleansant but not unpleasant
- 21.The drug Prozac is an example of a
- A.
Tricyclic
- B.
Benzodiazephine
- C.
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
- D.
Monoamine oxidase inhibitor
- 22.Family studies of schizophrenial reveal that
- A.
Virtually all relatives of patients have had or will have schizophrenia at one time or another
- B.
Schizophrenia is more evident among first-degree relatives of patients than it is among more distant relatives
- C.
Schizophrenia is sex-linked
- D.
Schizophrenia is seen only in siblings of patients, never in their parents
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