Explanatory Concepts In Psychology- Biological Bases Of Psychology

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1.

Humans are a part of nature, what are all products of the brain?
- A.
  
  Experience,personal identity, biological function
- B.
  
  Behavior, experience,personal identity,
- C.
  
  Biological function, Behaviour, expereince
- D.
  
  Personal identity, Behaviour, biological functions
2.

Who came up with four tyoes if biological explanations?
- A.
  
  Hebb (1949)
- B.
  
  Lashley (1929,50)
- C.
  
  Lacono (1983)
- D.
  
  Tinbergen (1951)
3.

Name the four types of biological explanations:
- A.
  
  Physiological, ontogenetic, evolutionary, functional
4.

Biological functions ____ or ____ a behaviour to occur.
- A.
  
  Cause, effect
- B.
  
  Cause, force
- C.
  
  Force, effect
- D.
  
  Force, enable
- E.
  
  Enable, cause
5.

What bio explanation is concerned with chemicals?
- A.
  
  Physiological
- B.
  
  Ontogenetic
- C.
  
  Functional
- D.
  
  Evolutionary
6.

What bio explanation is concerned with natural selection?
- A.
  
  Physiological
- B.
  
  Ontogenetic
- C.
  
  Functional
- D.
  
  Evolutionary
7.

What bio explanation is concerned with development of behavior?
- A.
  
  Physiological
- B.
  
  Ontogenetic
- C.
  
  Functional
- D.
  
  Evolutionary
8.

What bio explanation is concerned with why we evolved?
- A.
  
  Physiological
- B.
  
  Ontogenetic
- C.
  
  Functional
- D.
  
  Evolutionary
9.

Which mind brain relationship is concerned with the mind as independent from brain yet exerts some control over it?
- A.
  
  Materialist
- B.
  
  Dualist
- C.
  
  Identity
- D.
  
  Emergent property
10.

Which mind brain relationship is concerned with the mind and brain being same things just different terms?
- A.
  
  Materialist
- B.
  
  Dualist
- C.
  
  Identity
- D.
  
  Emergent property
11.

Which mind brain relationship is concerned with how the brain is organized, consciousness is not a property of all brain activity?
- A.
  
  Materialist
- B.
  
  Dualist
- C.
  
  Identity
- D.
  
  Emergent property
12.

Who said a modified version of dualist view where brain activity produces conscious mind which acts on brain, mind can effect brain, cant exist independently?
- A.
  
  Tinbergen
- B.
  
  Hebb
- C.
  
  Lacono
- D.
  
  Sperry
13.

What theory is this: stimulus activates collection of neurons, synaptic changes bind collection together so can be reactivated later.
- A.
  
  Hebbian theory
- B.
  
  Cellular basis of memory
- C.
  
  Reverberating neural activity
- D.
  
  Mass action
14.

What theory is this: learning at a neural level connection strengthen with presynaptic and postsynaptic activity occur together associative learning with previously unrelated stimuli,
- A.
  
  Hebbian theory
- B.
  
  Cellular basis of memory
- C.
  
  Reverberating neural activity
- D.
  
  Mass action
15.

What theory is this: neural activity allows temporarily separate neurons to become associated. cell assembly fires experience a thought of the environmental object of event the assembly corresponds to.
- A.
  
  Hebbian theory
- B.
  
  Cellular basis of memory
- C.
  
  Reverberating neural activity
- D.
  
  Mass action
16.

Who seached for engram, what did it find?
- A.
  
  Tinbergen, amount not location of damage
- B.
  
  Lashley, amount not location of damage
- C.
  
  Tinbergen, location not amount of damage
- D.
  
  Lashley, location not amount of damage
17.

What theory is this: neurons of the cortex work together as a whole during learn, more brain the better
- A.
  
  Equipotentiality
- B.
  
  Cellular basis of memory
- C.
  
  Reverberating neural activity
- D.
  
  Mass action
18.

What theory is this: various cortex areas contribute almost equally to learning, no part more specialized, any functional part of brain can perform function associated with that area.
- A.
  
  Mass action
- B.
  
  Cellular basis of memory
- C.
  
  Reverberating neural activity
- D.
  
  Equipotentiality
19.

What scanning technique or method is this: electric signal recorded by electrodes, sent to Galvanometer
- A.
  
  Computerised axial tomography
- B.
  
  Positron Emission Tomography
- C.
  
  Electroencephalograph
- D.
  
  Magnetic resonance imaging
- E.
  
  Magnetoencephalography
20.

What scanning technique or method is this: doughnut shaped X-ray machine, 2D cross sections to make 3D, changes in cerebral blood flow
- A.
  
  Computerised axial tomography
- B.
  
  Magnetoencephalography
- C.
  
  Magnetic resonance imaging
- D.
  
  Electroencephalograph
- E.
  
  Positron Emission Tomography
21.

What scanning technique or method is this: radioactive glucose injected, glucose as fuel, colour coded map
- A.
  
  Computerised axial tomography
- B.
  
  Positron Emission Tomography
- C.
  
  Magnetic resonance imaging
- D.
  
  Magnetoencephalography
- E.
  
  Electroencephalograph
22.

What scanning technique or method is this: moveable bed, giant circular magnet, aligns magnetisation of hydrogen atoms in body, radio waves from hydrogen atoms alter alignment, reconstruct image of brain low ecological validity,
- A.
  
  Computerised axial tomography
- B.
  
  Positron Emission Tomography
- C.
  
  Magnetic resonance imaging
- D.
  
  Magnetoencephalography
- E.
  
  Electroencephalograph
23.

What scanning technique or method is this: measures very faint magnetic fields from brain activity, detection in coils bathed in liquid helium, brain magnetic field induces current in coild squid chills coils to super conducting temperatures.
- A.
  
  Magnetoencephalography
- B.
  
  Magnetic resonance imaging
- C.
  
  Electroencephalograph
- D.
  
  Positron Emission Tomography
- E.
  
  Computerised axial tomography
24.

Why might social adversity be a risk factor for depression?
- A.
  
  Stress- decrease coritsol secretion- impairs serotonin neurotransmission
- B.
  
  Stress- decrease coritsol secretion- allows serotonin neurotransmission
- C.
  
  Stress- increase coritsol secretion- allows serotonin neurotransmission
- D.
  
  Stress- increase coritsol secretion- impairs serotonin neurotransmission
25.

Who found sodial adversity may be a risk factor for depression?
- A.
  
  Dixon (2002)
- B.
  
  Sperry
- C.
  
  Lacono (1983)
- D.
  
  Goldberg (2002)
- E.
  
  Lieberman (2007)