Chapter 9-12 beh. Neuro.

Who would probably develop as an intersex?

A. A genetic female exposed to more testosterone than normal during early development

A danish study correlating weights of 540 adopted children with various adoptive and biological relatives found ____

A. A higher correlation with biological relatives than adoptive relatives

Alberta has Urbach-weithe disease. As a result, she has damage to her ____ and cannot process ___

A. Amygdala and fear

Sex differences are to ______ as gender differences are to _____

A. Anatomy and behaviors

Georgette only remembers a small amount of what happened in her first few years of life. She has _____.

A. Infant amnesia

Structures formed from degenerating axons and dendrites are referred to as _____.

A. Tau proteins

Which hormone, released by the posterior pituitary, both raises blood pressure and enables the kidneys to reabsorb water?

A. Vasopressin

A search for the happiness center in the brain is unlikely to be successful because?

A. brain areas associated with particular emotions vary considerably

Alzheimer's leads to the accumulation of ______ in the brain

B. Amyloid deposits

Donald Hebb (1949) distinguished between two types of memory and he called them:

C. Short term and long term

Ghrelin is associated with ____ in the periphery and ____ in the brain

C. Stomach contractions and ecitiaoin of the arcuate nucleus

If Wilber was going to choose his family mate strictly by evolutionary findings, he would use ____ as the most important criteria.

C. Youthfulness

The field of study concerned with how the nervous system interacts with the immune system is known as:

C. psychoneuroimmunology

Jennifer has been diagnoses with PTSD. As such, her startle reflex is suppressed.

False

Paige wants to lose weight. The most effective long term plan is for her to limit her intake of sweet foods.

False

Procedural memory deals with the ability to state a memory in words

False

A distinctive symptom of Korsakoff's syndrome is confabulation, in which patients guess to fill in memory gaps.

True

Betsy had CAH. Compared to other girls without CAH, Betsy is more likely to participants in activities that are viewed as masculine.

True

Habituation is a decrease in response to a stimulus that is presented repeatedly and accompanied by no change in other stimuli.

True

Hal is experiencing osmotic thirst. He should drink pure water.

True

Instead of seeking a doctors care, Hoyt seeks to reduce his anxiety with alcohol since alcohol bings to the GABA receptor.

True

Organizing effects of hormones usually occur early in development

True

People with damage to either the prefrontal cortex or the amygdala show the difficulties processing emotional information.

True

An experimental drug, Ro15-4513 has been shown to block the behavioral effects of _____

c. Alcohol

Approach and avoidance responses are modified by the output from the amygdala to the _____

c. Prefrontal cortex

A means of controlling sex offenders has involved reducing ____.​

​A. testosterone levels

benzodiazepines tranquilizers affect GABA synapses by _____

B. Facilitating blinding of GABA to its receptors

Obesity in prayer willi syndrome is linked to a problem with___

B. Ghrelin

A "true hermaphrodite" is someone who ____

B. Has both testicular and ovarian tissue

The patient H.M. suffered severe memory disorders following a surgical operation that removed the ____.

B. Hippocampus

Which of the following accurately describes HM's memory problems?

B. Impaired procedural memory, but not declarative memory

There is compelling evidence for the role of the hippocampus in ____ memory.

B. Implicit

Through what mechanism does insulin affect appetite?

B. It enables glucose in the blood stream to enter the cells

Impulsive behavior and poor decisions are common symptoms of

B. Prefrontal damage

Professor Olaughlin tells his class that with regard to intelligence, ______.

B. There are many contributing genes

What would cause a genetic female mammal to develop an anatomical appearance resembling a males?

C. A high level of testosterone during an early stage of development

The general function of working memory is to _________

C. Attend to and operate on current formation

How do adult mammals with damage to the pre optic area regular their body temperature?

C. Behaviorally

Sexual behavior is most likely to occur when sex hormones (testosterone and estradiol) prime the neurons in the hypothalamus to release the neurotransmitter _____

C. Dopamine

Dr. Penland works with violent criminals. He has found that those individuals that _____ are more likely to be reparations offenders.

C. Had lower than normal serotonin turnover

According to a number of animal studies, under which of the following conditions is the probability of violent behavior greatest

C. Low serotonin turnover

Of the various hypothesis based on hormone levels, which is the most plausible explanation for male homosexuality?

C. Prenatal testosterone levels were low during some sensitive period

What common measure of fear or anxiety is popular because it can be used with non-humans as well as humans?

C. startle response

Alzheimer's patients have impairments in _____ memory, but are relativity unimpaired in _____ memory

D. Declarative; procedural

What is one current recommendation for raising children who have intersex conditions?

D. Identify the child as male or female based mainly on the predominant external appearance

High levels of lepton are associated with ______

D. Increased activity and decreased eating

Which hormone controls the rate at which glucose leaves the blood and enters the cells

D. Insulin

At this point, conclusions of studies on the evolutionary interpretations of mating behavior suggest that these behaviors are _____

D. Lacking sufficient scientific studies to allow us to draw a conclusion about them

The group of forebrain structures that appear to be critical for emotion compromise the

D. Limbic system

Damage to the ventromedial hypothalamus lead to eating_____

D. Normal sized meals, but eating them more frequently.

By blocking dopamine release, some antidepressant drugs that increase serotonin levels also ____.​

D. decrease sexual activity