AP Psychology Unit 3

Information is relayed to the spinal cord or the brain by

Afferent neurons

Dr.P wakes up one morning and can't tell the difference between his wifes face and his hat; in fact, he attempts to put on his "hat before his morning walk and is subsequently met by distressed cries from his wife as he tugs at her face. Dr.P has had a stroke and the visual perception disturbance he is experiencing is called...

Agnosia

Which of the following brain structures is most associated with the emotional fear?

Amygdala

Due to an automobile accident,Jenny suffered damage to her cerebral cortex in Broca's area. Jenny is most likely to experience

Aphasia

Which of the following correctly pairs subdivisions within the major divisions of the human nervous system?

Autonomic... sympathetic and parasympathetic

Drugs that block ways to distinguish how much genetic and environmental factors affect behavior is to compare children who have

Synaptic Gaps

Which of the following illustrates the correct sequence of neural firing?

Depolarization, Action potential, Repolarization, and Hyperpolarization

Which neurotransmitter plays a strong role in learning by rewarding motivated survival activities, but is also implicated in drug abuse and addictive behaviors

Dopamine

The limbic system is most closely associated with?

Emotions

According to evolutionary theory, which of the following brain regions is the "oldest"?

Hindbrain

Which of the following is the component of the limbic system that plays an essential role in the formation of new explicit memories?

Hippocampus

Which of the following research findings supports a strong biological basis for behavior?

Identical twins who are reared apart have similar levels of intelligence

Mary participates in an exercise program because she experiences an increase in energy and feelings of well being at the end of each exercise session. The best explanation for mary's perseverance in the program is that exercise

Increase her level of endorphins

A person accidentally touches a hand to a hot stove and quickly pulls the hand away, even before sensory information about the hot stove reaches the brain. The persons reaction is mostly directly enabled by _______ located in the _____

Interneurons;spinal cord

Your life would be most immediately threatened if which area of the brain were damaged?

Medulla

Direct stimulation Of the motor cortex would be most likely to result in:

Movement of the mouth and lips

A person who has a brain injury is having difficulty seeing and hearing. These symptoms indicate that damage has occured in the

Occipital and temporal Lobe

In order to identify which of Hopes brain areas was most active when she opened and closed her mouth, neuroscientists gave her temporarily radioactive form of glucose and a(n)

PET scan

Joseph has blue eyes and brown hair and is tall. These observable characteristics are best described as

Phenotypic traits

Which master endocrine gland, controlled by the hypothalamus regulates the production of growth hormone?

Pituitary

After Terry lost a finger in an industrial accident, the area of his sensory cortex devoted to receiving input from that finger gradually became very responsive to sensory input from his adjacent finger. This best illustrates

Plasticity

23) In the figure below a patient we asked to draw a slash through each circle. The pattern of responses suggests that the patient has most likely experienced damage in which of the following areas?

Right Hemisphere

What happens during the depolarization phase of neural firing

Sodium floods into the cell, changing the charge from negative and positive

Which part of the nervous system is most immediately activated by sudden fear?

Sympathetic

Your brother has been taking prescription medicine and experiencing a number of unpleasant side effects, including unusually rapid heartbeat and excessive perspiration. It is likely that the medicine is exaggerating activity in the

Sympathetic nervous system

Lynnae is usually timid and fearful, whereas her sister Eileen is typically relaxed and cheerful. The two sisters are most strikingly different in:

Temperament

Which of the following is true of a neuron in the resting state?

The inside of the cell membrane is negative compared to the outside

Heritability refers to the extent to which

Trait differences among a group of people are attributable to genetic variation

If Jim decided to take morphine an opiate drug, to help ease the pain caused by his troubled family and peer relationships, this drug would make him feel better by

acting as an endorphin agonist due to the fact he is relying on this to ease his pain

Acting as an endorphin agonist , Acetylcholine is to estrogen as ______ is to ________

neurotransmitter ; hormone