Biopsychology Paper Topic
QUESTION 1
Which of the following is not a basic process in learning?
| Consolidation | ||
| Encoding | ||
| Retrieval | ||
| Transduction | ||
QUESTION 2
When we use memory to perform a learned ability such as playing a musical instrument we are using _____memory.
QUESTION 3
The three successive events that are necessary for recall of a past event are , , and .
QUESTION 4
It has been proposed that PTSD can be reduced or eliminated by administering drugs to:
| Accelerate forgetting | ||
| Block the effects of emotional stress on memory | ||
| Inhibit behavioral sensitization | ||
| Reduce frontal lobe activity |
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QUESTION 5
The most striking impairment suffered by H.M. is:
| Prosopagnosia | ||
| Anterograde amnesia | ||
| Retrograde amnesia | ||
| Episodic amnesia |
QUESTION 6
Memories that we are consciously aware that we are retrieving are known as _____memories.
QUESTION 7
Which memory store holds the largest number of items?
| Iconic memory | ||
| Short-term memory | ||
| Intermediate-term memory | ||
| Long-term memory |
QUESTION 8
The ability of elderly people to retrieve certain memories (but not others) seems particularly related to the:
| Presence of memory cues | ||
| Absence of delays between learning and recall | ||
| Presence of rewards | ||
| Specificity of the items to be retrieved from memory |
QUESTION 9
Research indicates that emotional enhancement of memory:
| Cannot be shown in laboratory research | ||
| Occurs in humans but not in nonhuman animals | ||
| Involves adrenergic stress hormones | ||
| Lasts only briefly |
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QUESTION 10
Declarative memory is said to deal with:
| “How” | ||
| “Why” | ||
| “Where” | ||
| “What” |
QUESTION 11
Which of the following does not occur in the continuum of mammalian color vision?
| Excellent trichromatic color vision | ||
| Robust dichromatic color vision | ||
| Feeble dichromatic vision of species that have few cones | ||
| Total lack of wavelength discrimination |
QUESTION 12
The dorsal stream system of visual processing is said to specialize in processing information about:
| “What” | ||
| “Who” | ||
| “Where” | ||
| “When” |
QUESTION 13
Rods and cones in the retina are analogous to:
| Merkle’s discs in the skin | ||
| The tympanic membrane of the ear | ||
| Odor receptor cells in the nasal epithelium | ||
| All of the above |
QUESTION 14
When you are gazing at near objects (such as this question), the lens of the eye is:
| Relaxed | ||
| Stretched and thinned | ||
| Thickened | ||
| Concave |
QUESTION 15
Which of the following is the correct route for the passage of visual information?
| Optic tract, optic nerve, optic radiations | ||
| Optic radiations, optic nerve, optic tract | ||
| Optic nerve, optic radiations, optic tract | ||
| Optic nerve, optic tract, optic radiations |
QUESTION 16
The _____neuron is active when an individual observes another individual making a particular movement.
QUESTION 17
Because the visual system integrates stimuli over time, its performance is relatively:
| Fast, at the expense of sensitivity | ||
| Slow but sensitive | ||
| Fast and sensitive | ||
| Sensitive, at the expense of acuity |
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QUESTION 18
Which of the following is the dominant modern theory of color discrimination?
| Helmholtz trichromatic hypothesis | ||
| Hering opponent-process hypothesis | ||
| De Valois hypothesis of spectrally opponent cells | ||
| Zeki hypothesis of cortical color processing |
QUESTION 19
Retinal receptor cells release the neurotransmitter _____.
QUESTION 20
The brightest light at which we can see is about _____ times as intense as the dimmest light at which we can see.
| 100,000 | ||
| 10 million | ||
| 1 billion | ||
| 10 billion |
QUESTION 21
In human males, sexual orientation is probably determined:
| Around puberty | ||
| By age four | ||
| By hormonal variations | ||
| By the sex chromosome carried by the father’s sperm |
QUESTION 22
The stages of reproductive behavior include all of the following except:
| Appetitive behavior | ||
| Sexual attraction | ||
| Organizational behavior | ||
| Copulation |
QUESTION 23
The internal sex organs:
| Require hormonal stimulation in both males and females for proper development | ||
| Are bisexual early in development, unlike the gonads | ||
| Develop from the müllerian system in males | ||
| None of the above |
QUESTION 24
The first standardized information about human sex behavior was obtained by:
| Beach | ||
| Kinsey | ||
| Masters and Johnson | ||
| Money and Ehrhardt |
QUESTION 25
Which of the following, if true, would indicate that aromatization does not play a role in sexual differentiation of humans?
| There are no sex differences in humans. | ||
| The sensitive period for humans is postnatal. | ||
| Human estrogen does not cross the placenta. | ||
| Human α-fetoprotein does not bind estrogens. |
QUESTION 26
Research indicates that treating postmenopausal women with low doses of _____can revive sexual interest.
| androgen | ||
| estrogen | ||
| progesterone | ||
| cortisol |
QUESTION 27
Which of the following are the organs derived from the wolffian duct system?
| Seminal vesicles, vas deferens, testes, epididymis, prostate | ||
| Seminal vesicles, vas deferens, prostate, epididymis | ||
| Seminal vesicles, epididymis, prostate, testes | ||
| Seminal vesicles, vas deferens, epididymis |
QUESTION 28
Among humans, the only behavior that is displayed exclusively by one sex is _____.
QUESTION 29
Which of the following can regulate sex determination?
| Paternal hormones | ||
| Temperature | ||
| Genes | ||
| Both b and c |
QUESTION 30
Müllerian ducts develop to form:
| Internal male reproductive structures | ||
| Labia | ||
| Internal female reproductive structures | ||
| Ovaries |
QUESTION 31
One of the reasons we know that insulin is not the only cue for satiety is that:
| Insulin does not rise after a meal. | ||
| Low doses of insulin do not stop eating. | ||
| High doses of insulin initiate eating. | ||
| Untreated diabetic patients are not hungry. |