Psychobiology MCQ

In comparison to activating effects, organizing effects of hormones take place ____.

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Correct Answer: Earlier in life and produce more long-lasting effects

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The capacity of stress to ________ would predispose an organism to develop an infectious illness.

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Correct Answer: Inhibit the immune system

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One way that estrogen increases sexual responsiveness is by ____.

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Correct Answer: Synchronizing activity between the hypothalamus of the left and right

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____ steer new axonal branches and synapses in the right direction.

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Correct Answer: Neurotrophins

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Autoreceptors monitor the ____.

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Correct Answer: Amount of neurotransmitter released

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After cells have differentiated as neurons or glia, they ____.

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Correct Answer: Migrate

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The human brain starts to resemble a _____________ by the 28th day of embryonic development.

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Correct Answer: Hollow tube

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The ________ plays a key role in the extinction of drug responding.

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Correct Answer: Ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)

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Humans exposed to the stress of ________ show evidence of brain degeneration in ct scans.

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Correct Answer: Torture

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Deep brain stimulation of the ________ can alleviate the symptoms of parkinson's disease.

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Correct Answer: Subthalamic nucleus.

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More cases of child abuse are perpetrated by _____________ than any other group.

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Correct Answer: Mothers

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Olfactory information is coded in receptor cells through ____.

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Correct Answer: ​hundreds of types of receptor molecules, each responsive to a different chemical

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_______ is a sound quality whereby a sound is heard to be of higher or lower pitch.

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Correct Answer: Tone height

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A melody is defined by the _______, rather than by an exact sequence of sound frequencies.

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Correct Answer: Pattern of rises and falls in pitch

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For an association claim, you should interrogate all of the following validities except __________.

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Correct Answer: Internal

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A study finds a correlation coefficient of r = .32 and reports p < .05. the p is a/an ________.

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Correct Answer: Probability estimate

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Empowerment and egalitarianism are the basis of the ________ therapeutic relationship.

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Correct Answer: Feminist

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A tonotopic map refers to a(n) ____.

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Correct Answer: Auditory cortex map of sounds

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A symptom of right-hemisphere parietal lobe damage is the tendency to ignore the ____.

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Correct Answer: Left side of the body

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A person who sees spoken language or music may be experiencing ____.

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Correct Answer: Synesthesia

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A neuron excretes neurotransmitters through its membrane by a process called ____.

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Correct Answer: Exocytosis

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In castrated male rats, the medial preoptic area ____.

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Correct Answer: ​has as much dopamine as normal rats, but the presence of a receptive female does not evoke much release of it

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Sherrington inferred the presence of a gap between neurons based on ________ .

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Correct Answer: Slower than predicted speed of conduction

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The major disadvantage of a blood-brain barrier is that ____.

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Correct Answer: Certain required chemicals must be actively transported

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Areas bordering the primary auditory cortex are important for ____.

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Correct Answer: Analyzing the meaning of sounds

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Sigmund freud is responsible for revolutionary ideas and the __________ theory.

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Correct Answer: Psychoanalytic

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Ischemia is to ____ as hemorrhage is to ____.

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Correct Answer: Obstruction; rupture

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In development, neurotrophins ____. during adulthood, they ____.

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Correct Answer: Preserve neurons; increase neuronal branching

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The relationship between behavior and biology is ____.

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Correct Answer: Reciprocal: biology affects behavior and vice versa

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The membrane of a neuron is composed of ____ with ____ embedded in them.

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Correct Answer: Fat molecules; proteins

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Protein channels allow ____ molecules to cross the cell membrane.

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Correct Answer: Small charged

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Neurons typically have one ____, but many ____.

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Correct Answer: Axon; dendrites

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The brain gets part of its information regarding low osmotic pressure from ____.

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Correct Answer: Receptors around the third ventricle

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According to erik erikson, personality develops _____.

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Correct Answer: Over the entire life span

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In the nervous system, the job of the axons is to ________ other neurons.

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Correct Answer: Transmit action potentials to

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A phenotype can consist of _____ as well as _____ characteristics.

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Correct Answer: Physical; psychological

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A human egg contains ________ chromosome and a human sperm contains ________ chromosome.

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Correct Answer: An X; either an X or a Y

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A ______ will always be expressed in the observable trait.

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Correct Answer: Dominant gene

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_____ refers to the process of gathering information about the world through our senses.

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Correct Answer: Perception.

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The endocrine system responds to input from the nervous system, particularly from the ____.

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Correct Answer: Hypothalamus

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The endocrine system is directly involved with ____.

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Correct Answer: ​arousal, metabolism, growth and sex

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The rods of the retina are the main receptors of the _______ visual system.

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Correct Answer: Scotopic

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The fight-or-flight response is to ________ as the general adaptation syndrome is to ________.

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Correct Answer: Walter Cannon; Hans Selye

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The difference between neurons in the pns and neurons in the cns is that _____.

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Correct Answer: Neurons in the PNS can regenerate

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The release of cortisol during the fight-or-flight response occurs at the end of the _____ pathway.

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Correct Answer: Pituitary, Adrenal cortex, Hypothalamus

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As compared to dendrites, axons usually ____.

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Correct Answer: Are covered with myelin

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The secretion of pyy _____ hunger and the secretion of orexin _____ hunger.

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Correct Answer: Decreases; increases

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Stimulation of the pontomesencephalon ____.

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Correct Answer: Awakens a sleeping individual

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Somatic is to autonomic what _____ is to _____.

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Correct Answer: Voluntary; involuntary

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Müllerian ducts are found in ____.

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Correct Answer: Female and male fetuses early in development

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Active transport of molecules across membranes requires atp because __________.

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Correct Answer: The molecules are moved against the concentration gradient (uphill)

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A dopamine pill is ineffective for treating parkinson's disease because it ____.

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Correct Answer: ​does not cross the blood-brain barrier

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A cross section of the spinal cord indicates that gray matter is ____.

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Correct Answer: Densely packed with cell bodies and dendrites

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