AP Psychology Unit 2 Test

Cocaine blocks the reuptake of which neurotransmitter?

Dopamine

Which of the following neurotransmitters has been linked to Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia?

Dopamine

A person accidentally touches a hand to a hot stove and quickly pulls the hand away, even before sensory info about the hot stove reaches the brain. The person's reaction is most directly enabled by

a spinal reflex

An individual who drinks alcohol daily finds it necessary to drink increasing amounts to achieve the state of well-being attained in the past. This individual is showing

alcohol tolerance

Damage to which of the following brain structures may cause the inability to detect the emotional significance of facial expressions, especially those demonstrating fear?

amygdala

The role of the parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system is to

establish homeostasis after a flight-or-fight response

Damage to a small part of the occipital lobe would most likely result in a

visual deficit

The painful experience associated with termination of the use of an addictive substance is known as

withdrawal

Damage to the cerebellum would most likely result in which of the following problems

A loss of motor coordination

The depletion of which of the following neurotransmitters is most closely associated with the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease?

Acetylcholine

Sally says that her dream about going to a circus is just her brain attempting to make sense of random stimulation from the brain stem. Sally's explanation is consistent with which of the following theories of dreaming?

Activation synthesis

Which of the following psychoactive drugs increase nervous system activity?

Cocaine

Which of the following groups of characteristics best describes the REM sleep stage?

Fast breathing, relatively high heart rate, relatively high blood pressure

In adult humans, which of the following is typically true of REM sleep?

It is correlated with dreaming

Which of the following is true about the pons

It is the region of the brain that is most closely associated with sleep and arousal.

Which of the following is a disease in which the immune system attacks the myelin of neurons in the CNS?

Multiple sclerosis

In the figure above, a patient has been 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

which of the following neurotransmitters has been most associated with major depressive disorder?

Serotonin

A patient reports constant sleepiness. A series of tests reveal that the patient's sleep is frequently disrupted by periods of interrupted breathing and brief awakenings. Which of the following diagnoses would account for such symptoms?

Sleep apnea

nervousness can result in faster and more shallow breathing as well as a racing heart. This is due to the activation of the

Sympathetic nervous system

Sara had an argument with her coworker, Adam. That night, Sara had a dream that she was shopping at a mall and Adam was in every store in which she shopped. A psychoanalyst would say that Adam's being at the mall in her dream was an example of which of the following?

The manifest content

the biological clock that operates in human beings to adjust their functioning to night-and-day periodicity is referred as

a circadian rhythm

A drug that has the effect of intensifying or mimicking a particular neurotransmitter can be characterized as

an agonist, because it intensifies the effects of a particular neurotransmitter

When a person is suffering from severe pain, the type of drug that will best help alleviate that pain is

an opiate

In terms of the effect on the CNS, alcohol is most accurately classified as which of the following types of drugs?

depressant

A person with a severe head injury subsequently acts irresponsibly, does not seem to be able to plan effectively, and is easy to anger. Which of the following brain areas is most likely injured?

frontal lobe

Sigmund Freud believed that dream analysis was a useful device for

gaining insight into unconscious memories

Stimulation of portions of the left temporal lobe of the brain during surgery will cause the patient to

hear sounds

When people consume large amounts of alcohol, they are often unable to recall what they did and said while they were drinking. This occurs because alcohol interferes with the brain's ability to form new memories in the

hippocampus

Rafael has a sleep disorder for which he takes medically prescribed amphetamines. For which of the following sleep disorders is Rafael most likely being treated?

narcolepsy

dopamine, norepinephrine, and acetylcholine are all

neurotransmitters that excite or inhibit a neural signal across a synapse

If an individual has lost the ability to feel pain in the left arm, there is more likely damage to what area of the brain?

right parietal lobe

A person with damage to Broca's area would most likely demonstrate which of the following symptoms

difficulty with speech production

Most glands in the human body are a part of which system?

endocrine

Which of the following systems produces, circulates, and regulates levels of hormones in the body?

endocrine system

Painkilling substances produced by the brain are known as

endorphins

The right occipital lobe receives visual info from the

entire retina of the left eye

Which of the following regions of the body has the largest area of sensory cortex devoted to it?

face

The network of structures involved in emotion, motivation, and memory is the

limbic system

REM sleep, generally an "active" state of sleep, is accompanied by which of the following paradoxical characteristics?

lowered muscle tone

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

phenotypic traits

Significant damage to which of the following parts of the brain will most likely cause a person to fall into a deep coma from which the person will be unable to awaken?

reticular formation

The division of the nervous system that most directly allows voluntary muscle movement is the

somatic

In right-handed individuals, which of the following abilities is predominantly a function of the right hemisphere of the brain?

spatial reasoning

which of the following characteristics is generally associated with the use of hallucinogens?

the experience of vivid, distorted images are not based on sensory input