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