Psych Exam 3 Practice Test

James-Lange Theory

Arousal comes before emotion

Benzodiazepines exert their effect on anxiety by facilitating the binding of _____

GABA to GABA receptors

Training a dog with treats is an example of this type of learning

Instrumental conditioning

Which type of stimulus is most often involved in resetting the internal clock among land animals?

Light

If you wanted to wake up your friend when he/she was dreaming, you would have the best chance to do so by waking them up during ______.

REM sleep

Lue just had her first kiss. As a result of the emotional event producing cortisol and epinephrine, what will happen to Lue's brain structures responsible for memory?

The chemicals will activate the amygdala and hippocampus

Sleep apnea

a disorder in which the person stops breathing for brief periods while asleep

The delayed response task requires responding to something that you saw or heard ____

a short while ago

Who is likely to be getting the most REM sleep?

a six-month old infant

Klaus has been having trouble controlling his anxiety. Instead of consulting with a doctor, he has been using ____ to self-medicate because it also binds to the GABAA receptors.

alcohol

The genes controlling early-onset Alzheimer's disease cause a protein called ________ to accumulate both inside and outside neurons, where it damages dendritic spines, decreases synaptic output, and decreases plasticity.

amyloid-B

Not being able to recall memories that occur after brain damage is called ____

anterograde amnesia

A predominant amount of alpha waves on an EEG represents

being very relaxed but still awake

Urbach-Wiethe disease

causes loss of identifying facial expressions associated with fear and loss of recognition of fear; calcification of the amygdala

The sound in an experiment to elicit salvation is considered the ____

conditioned stimulus

Cristina has been diagnosed with Korsakoff's syndrome. She tends to fill in her memory gaps with guesses. When she does so, she is ______.

confabulating

Working the night shift can result in ___

continuing to feel groggy at work even after years on the job

Pulling all nighters result in a disruption to _____

endogenous circadian rhythms

mammals have circadian rhythms ____

for a variety of activities, including sleep

Removal of the ____ results in profound memory deficits

hippocampus

Dreamlike experiences, which an individual has trouble distinguishing from reality and often occur at the onset of sleep, are known as ____.

hypnagogic hallucinations

The SCN is found in the

hypothalamus

Coretta was asked a trivia question about what part(s) of the brain are considered to be the most critical for emotion. She correctly answered the _____.

limbic system

Retrograde amnesia is ____, while anterograde amnesia is ____

loss of memory for old events; inability to form new memories

The pineal gland releases _____

melatonin

The ____, present in infants, is an example of a built-in, unlearned fear

moro reflex

The idea of having a limited number of emotions (happiness, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, and surprise) is supported by the empirical finding that ____.

most people can identify the facial expressions associated with these emotions

Night terrors can be distinguished from nightmares in that night terrors ____.​

occur during NREM sleep

The SCN is located just above the

optic chiasm

Learning a new motor skill is an example of ____ memory

procedural

Endogenous

produced from within; due to internal causes

A brain wave pattern showing a high number of alpha waves represents a state of ____

relaxation

Suppose you fell into a cave and lost your watch. Without any time cues, your circadian rhythm would ____.

remain relatively stable

A small branch of the optic nerve, known as the ____ path extends directly from the retina to the SCN.​

retinohypothalamic

Vashti has been asleep for several hours. At this point of the night, she is most likely _____.

spending more time in REM sleep

____ is not an emotion but is the result of an emotion

stress

The main driver of rhythms for sleep and body temperature is the ____.

suprachiasmatic nucleus

Engram refers to

the physical representation of learning

A state of alternating between periods of sleep and moderate arousal, although even during the aroused state showing no awareness of surroundings and no purposeful behavior

vegetative