Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience
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Chapter 12: Neurobiology of Stress
Multiple Choice
1. Seeing a bear in your front yard would be a ________ while your increased heart rate after
seeing it would be a ________.
A. stressor / stress response*
B. stress response / stressor
C. appraisal response / threat perception
D. subjective experience / physiological experience
Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding
2. Which of the following can be sources of stress?
A. Social interactions
B. Physical exertion
C. Illness
D. All of these*
Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering
3. Stress can be studied:
A. only in lab settings.
B. only in wild animals.
C. only in response to psychological stressors.
D. None of these*
Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering
4. A mouse who had been exposed to social defeat stress would show which of the following
behaviors in a sucrose preference test?
A. Less preference for sucrose water than regular water*
B. More preference for sucrose water than regular water
C. No water consumption
D. Excessive water consumption
Bloom’s Level 3. Applying
5. To your dismay, the psychotic squirrel chases you when you run. You continue running for 5
minutes, faster than you ever have before. What part of your nervous system most
supports your continued flight for several minutes?
A. Your parasympathetic nervous system
B. Your sympathetic nervous system
C. Your hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis*
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D. Your mesolimbic dopaminergic system
Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding
6. At baseline, which receptor is most occupied by glucocorticoids?
A. Glucocorticoid receptor
B. Mineralocorticoid receptor*
C. Epinephrine receptor
D. Norepinephrine receptor
Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding
7. Which of these processes can be negatively affected by chronic stress?
A. Myelination
B. Neurogenesis
C. Dendritic branching
D. All of these*
Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering
8. Which of the following can be a critical period for stress effects on the brain?
A. In utero
B. Early childhood
C. Adolescence
D. All of these*
Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering
9. In a controllable stress paradigm, which group receives no shocks?
A. The escapable stress group
B. The inescapable stress group
C. The no stress control*
D. None of the above
Bloom’s Level 3. Applying
10. Which statement best describes the mechanism of social buffering?
A. It is largely unknown, though some candidate molecules and systems are identified*
B. It is well understood to rely on oxytocin
C. It is well understood to rely on serotonin
D. We have no idea what could possibly be happening
Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding
11. Allostasis:
2
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Chapter 12: Neurobiology of Stress
Multiple Choice
1. Seeing a bear in your front yard would be a ________ while your increased heart rate after
seeing it would be a ________.
A. stressor / stress response*
B. stress response / stressor
C. appraisal response / threat perception
D. subjective experience / physiological experience
Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding
2. Which of the following can be sources of stress?
A. Social interactions
B. Physical exertion
C. Illness
D. All of these*
Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering
3. Stress can be studied:
A. only in lab settings.
B. only in wild animals.
C. only in response to psychological stressors.
D. None of these*
Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering
4. A mouse who had been exposed to social defeat stress would show which of the following
behaviors in a sucrose preference test?
A. Less preference for sucrose water than regular water*
B. More preference for sucrose water than regular water
C. No water consumption
D. Excessive water consumption
Bloom’s Level 3. Applying
5. To your dismay, the psychotic squirrel chases you when you run. You continue running for 5
minutes, faster than you ever have before. What part of your nervous system most
supports your continued flight for several minutes?
A. Your parasympathetic nervous system
B. Your sympathetic nervous system
C. Your hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis*
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D. Your mesolimbic dopaminergic system
Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding
6. At baseline, which receptor is most occupied by glucocorticoids?
A. Glucocorticoid receptor
B. Mineralocorticoid receptor*
C. Epinephrine receptor
D. Norepinephrine receptor
Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding
7. Which of these processes can be negatively affected by chronic stress?
A. Myelination
B. Neurogenesis
C. Dendritic branching
D. All of these*
Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering
8. Which of the following can be a critical period for stress effects on the brain?
A. In utero
B. Early childhood
C. Adolescence
D. All of these*
Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering
9. In a controllable stress paradigm, which group receives no shocks?
A. The escapable stress group
B. The inescapable stress group
C. The no stress control*
D. None of the above
Bloom’s Level 3. Applying
10. Which statement best describes the mechanism of social buffering?
A. It is largely unknown, though some candidate molecules and systems are identified*
B. It is well understood to rely on oxytocin
C. It is well understood to rely on serotonin
D. We have no idea what could possibly be happening
Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding
11. Allostasis:
2
