Study Question For Brain And Behavior

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    According to Hans Seyle, the initial response to stress is a state called the

    • General adaption syndrome
    • Alarm reaction
    • Resistance stage
    • Exhaustion phase
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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.

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  • 2. 

    Family studies of schizophrenial reveal that

    • Virtually all relatives of patients have had or will have schizophrenia at one time or another

    • Schizophrenia is more evident among first-degree relatives of patients than it is among more distant relatives

    • Schizophrenia is sex-linked

    • Schizophrenia is seen only in siblings of patients, never in their parents

    Correct Answer
    A. Schizophrenia is more evident among first-degree relatives of patients than it is among more distant relatives
  • 3. 

    In comparision with adults, the REM sleep of children

    • Takes up a greater proportion of the overall amount of sleep

    • Occupies a smaller proportion fo the overall amount of sleep

    • Is amuch more predicatable protion of the overall amount of sleep

    • Is far less intense in its basic characteristics

    Correct Answer
    A. Takes up a greater proportion of the overall amount of sleep
  • 4. 

    One of the ways the brain influences the immune system is through the

    • Dorsal root ganglia

    • Spinal cord

    • Autonomic nervous system

    • Gastric tract

    Correct Answer
    A. Autonomic nervous system
  • 5. 

    In men, simply backing the losing team at a baseball game is sufficient to

    • Decrease circulating testosterone levels

    • Increase circulating cortisol levels

    • Decrease serotonin levels

    • Increase circulating testosterone levels

    Correct Answer
    A. Decrease circulating testosterone levels
  • 6. 

    The cortical EEG pattern of the encephale isole animal is characterized by

    • Sustained sleep patterns

    • Intense arousal patterns

    • Alternating periods of arousal and sleep

    • Intense seizure activity

    Correct Answer
    A. Alternating periods of arousal and sleep
  • 7. 

    The muscle that moves the jaw is contrlled by the _______ nerve

    • Trochlear

    • Facial

    • Trigeminal

    • Hypoglossal

    Correct Answer
    A. Trigeminal
  • 8. 

    If the SCN is detached from the rest of the brain by a series of knife cuts, its rhythmicity

    • Diasappears

    • Becomes abnormally short

    • Persists

    • Becomes infradian

    Correct Answer
    A. Persists
  • 9. 

    In mammals, what is the effect of lesions of visual cortex on the rhythms of the SCN?

    • They become free-running

    • They are not altered

    • They shorten

    • They cannot be entrained

    Correct Answer
    A. They are not altered
  • 10. 

    Benzodiazephine drugs have which of the follwoing effects of GABA synapses?

    • Complete blocking of inhibition

    • Enhancement of GABA-mediated inhibiton

    • Enhancement of GABA-mediated excitation

    • Reduction of chloride permeability

    Correct Answer
    A. Enhancement of GABA-mediated inhibiton
  • 11. 

    The drug Prozac is an example of a

    • Tricyclic

    • Benzodiazephine

    • Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

    • Monoamine oxidase inhibitor

    Correct Answer
    A. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
  • 12. 

    Which of the following is a drug that, used repetitively, produces a psychoitc state akin to paranoid schizophrenia?

    • LSD

    • Heroin

    • Amephetamine

    • Aspirin

    Correct Answer
    A. Amephetamine
  • 13. 

    Which of the following is not considered a major anxiety disorder?

    • Phobic disorder

    • Panic disorder

    • Obsessive-compulsive disorder

    • Bipolar disorder

    Correct Answer
    A. Bipolar disorder
  • 14. 

    Which of the following is not one of the three types of facial expression that have been idenified in nonhuman primates?

    • Nose wrinkle

    • Tense mouth

    • Play face

    • Grimace

    Correct Answer
    A. Nose wrinkle
  • 15. 

    A principla effect of the drug chloropromazine is the

    • Release of norepinephrine

    • Postsynaptic blocking of acetylcholine

    • Postsynaptic blocking of dopamine receptors

    • Facilitation of GABA actions

    Correct Answer
    A. Postsynaptic blocking of dopamine receptors
  • 16. 

    Stages 3 and 4 SWS are especially prominent during ______ of a night's sleep.

    • Sleep periods during the latter half

    • Sleep periods during the inital half

    • Only the last complete cycle

    • The middle third

    Correct Answer
    A. Sleep periods during the inital half
  • 17. 

    The theory of stress _________ holds that early stressful experiences may lead to reduced susceptibitity to stress in adulthood

    • Tolerance

    • Sensitization

    • Immunization

    • Habituation

    Correct Answer
    A. Immunization
  • 18. 

    In normal subjects, the substance dexamethoasone

    • Increases levels of circulating cortisol

    • Suppresses cortisol levels

    • Produces major peak periods of cortisol secretion

    • Enahcnes the rlease of ACTH

    Correct Answer
    A. Suppresses cortisol levels
  • 19. 

    A review of research on facial asymmetry in emotional expression concludes that the ______ cerebral hemisphere is dominant for perception of facial displays of _______ emotions

    • Left; unpleasant but not pleasant

    • Left: both pleasant and unpleasant

    • Right; both pleasnat and unpleasant

    • Right; pleansant but not unpleasant

    Correct Answer
    A. Right; both pleasnat and unpleasant
  • 20. 

    On the basis of studies of the properites of phencyclindine, a _______ hypothesis of schizophrenia has been advanced.

    • Serotonin

    • Dopamine

    • GABA

    • Glutamate

    Correct Answer
    A. Glutamate
  • 21. 

    The cells of the raphe nucleus have high levels of

    • Acetylcholine

    • GABA

    • Norepinephrine

    • Serotonin

    Correct Answer
    A. Serotonin
  • 22. 

    During REM, thermoregulation

    • Is imparied

    • Is maintained in a normal manner

    • Depends on body temperatue

    • Is enhanced

    Correct Answer
    A. Is imparied

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