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Biopsychology
John P.J. Pinel & Steven Barnes
11th Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Biology As A Neuroscience 1
Chapter 2 Evolution, Genetics, and Experience 60
Chapter 3 Anatomy of the Nervous System 145
Chapter 4 Neural Conduction and Synaptic Transmission 230
Chapter 5 The Research Methods of Biopsychology 324
Chapter 6 The Visual System 425
Chapter 7 Sensory Systems, Perception, and Attention 512
Chapter 8 The Sensorimotor System 597
Chapter 9 Development of the Nervous System 676
Chapter 10 Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity 753
Chapter 11 Learning, Memory, and Amnesia 857
Chapter 12 Hunger, Eating, and Health 953
Chapter 13 Hormones and Sex 1042
Chapter 14 Sleep, Dreaming, and Circadian Rhythms 1138
Chapter 15 Drug Use, Drug Addiction, and the Brain’s Reward Circuits 1252
Chapter 16 Lateralization, Language, and the Split Brain 1345
Chapter 17 Biopsychology of Emotion, Stress, and Health 1449
Chapter 18 Biopsychology of Psychiatric Disorders 1539
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CHAPTER 1
BIOLOGY AS A NEUROSCIENCE: WHAT IS BIOPSYCHLOGY,
ANYWAY?
Total Assessment Guide (T.A.G.)
Question Remember the Understand the Apply What You
Topic
Type Facts Concepts Know
Multiple
1-4, 6-10, 13, 15, 16 5, 11, 12, 14
What Is Biopsychology? Choice
Fill-In 1-3
Essay 1
Multiple 17-21, 23-25, 27-31,
What Types of Research 22, 26 32
Choice 33, 34
Characterize the
Fill-In 4, 6 5
Biopsychological Approach?
Essay 2, 3
Multiple
35, 36, 39-41, 43-49 37, 38, 42
What Are the Dvisions of Choice
Biopsychology? Fill-In 7-12
Essay 4, 5
Multiple
50-54, 56 55, 57
How Do Biopsychologists Choice
Conduct Their Work? Fill-In 13-15
Essay 6
Multiple
58-65
Thinking Critically about Choice
Biopsychological Claims Fill-In 16-18
Essay 7
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. The human brain weighs about
a. 0.3 kilograms (0.7 pounds).
b. 0.8 kilograms (1.8 pounds).
c. 1.0 kilograms (2.2 pounds).
d. 1.3 kilograms (2.9 pounds).
e. 2.3 kilograms (5.1 pounds).
Answer: D
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Topic: Introduction
Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
2. The human brain is composed of various cells, including those specialized to receive and
transmit electrochemical signals, which are known as
a. glial cells.
b. axons.
c. neurons.
d. oligodendroglia.
e. sulci.
Answer: C
Difficulty Level: Easy
Topic: Introduction
Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
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3. The scientific study of the nervous system is called
a. neuroscience.
b. psychology.
c. biopsychology.
d. neurochemistry.
e. neurophysiology.
Answer: A
Difficulty Level: Easy
Topic: Introduction
Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
4. Jimmie G., “the man frozen in time” described in the chapter vignette, had a severe
problem with his
a. memory.
b. temperature regulation.
c. intellectual functioning.
d. allocation of attention.
e. ability to recognize faces.
Answer: A
Difficulty Level: Easy
Topic: Introduction
Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
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5. Eduardo wants to understand the development of the human brain by comparing it to the
brains of other species and theorizing about the environmental pressures that helped to
shape those brains over the long process of historical time. Which perspective on
biopsychology is Eduardo adopting?
a. historiography
b. conscious awareness perspective
c. clinical perspective
d. computational perspective
e. evolutionary perspective
Answer: E
Difficulty Level: Easy
Topic: Four Major Themes of This Text
Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by biopsychology.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
APA Learning Objective: 1.2 Develop a working knowledge of psychology’s content domains.
6. Understanding the ongoing interaction between genes and experience is the subject
matter of
a. the clinical perspective.
b. biochemistry.
c. epigenetics.
d. neuroanatomy.
e. consciousness.
Answer: C
Difficulty Level: Easy
Topic: Emerging Themes of This Text
Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
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7. Biopsychology is the scientific study of the
a. biology of behavior.
b. brain.
c. evolution of the brain.
d. anatomy of the brain.
e. chemistry underlying cognition.
Answer: A
Difficulty Level: Easy
Topic: Defining Biopsychology Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by
biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
8. Psychobiology, behavioral biology, and behavioral neuroscience are all approximate
synonyms for
a. cognitive behavior.
b. behavioral psychology.
c. biopsychology.
d. neurophysiology.
e. neuroscience.
Answer: C
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Topic: Defining Biopsychology
Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
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9. Psychology is defined as the scientific study of
a. the physical determinants of behavior.
b. behavior.
c. emotional processes.
d. the brain.
e. learning and conditioning.
Answer: B
Difficulty Level: Easy
Topic: Defining Biopsychology
Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
10. The scientist who played a key role in the emergence of biopsychology as a discipline by
writing The Organization of Behavior was
a. Roger Walcott Sperry.
b. Donald Olding Hebb.
c. Karl Spencer Lashley.
d. Brenda Milner.
e. Wilder Graves Penfield.
Answer: B
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Topic: What Are the Origins of Biopsychology?
Learning Objective: 1.2 Discuss the origins of the field of biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
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Biopsychology
John P.J. Pinel & Steven Barnes
11th Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Biology As A Neuroscience 1
Chapter 2 Evolution, Genetics, and Experience 60
Chapter 3 Anatomy of the Nervous System 145
Chapter 4 Neural Conduction and Synaptic Transmission 230
Chapter 5 The Research Methods of Biopsychology 324
Chapter 6 The Visual System 425
Chapter 7 Sensory Systems, Perception, and Attention 512
Chapter 8 The Sensorimotor System 597
Chapter 9 Development of the Nervous System 676
Chapter 10 Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity 753
Chapter 11 Learning, Memory, and Amnesia 857
Chapter 12 Hunger, Eating, and Health 953
Chapter 13 Hormones and Sex 1042
Chapter 14 Sleep, Dreaming, and Circadian Rhythms 1138
Chapter 15 Drug Use, Drug Addiction, and the Brain’s Reward Circuits 1252
Chapter 16 Lateralization, Language, and the Split Brain 1345
Chapter 17 Biopsychology of Emotion, Stress, and Health 1449
Chapter 18 Biopsychology of Psychiatric Disorders 1539
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Test Bank - Biopsychology, 11th Edition (Pinel, 2021)
CHAPTER 1
BIOLOGY AS A NEUROSCIENCE: WHAT IS BIOPSYCHLOGY,
ANYWAY?
Total Assessment Guide (T.A.G.)
Question Remember the Understand the Apply What You
Topic
Type Facts Concepts Know
Multiple
1-4, 6-10, 13, 15, 16 5, 11, 12, 14
What Is Biopsychology? Choice
Fill-In 1-3
Essay 1
Multiple 17-21, 23-25, 27-31,
What Types of Research 22, 26 32
Choice 33, 34
Characterize the
Fill-In 4, 6 5
Biopsychological Approach?
Essay 2, 3
Multiple
35, 36, 39-41, 43-49 37, 38, 42
What Are the Dvisions of Choice
Biopsychology? Fill-In 7-12
Essay 4, 5
Multiple
50-54, 56 55, 57
How Do Biopsychologists Choice
Conduct Their Work? Fill-In 13-15
Essay 6
Multiple
58-65
Thinking Critically about Choice
Biopsychological Claims Fill-In 16-18
Essay 7
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Test Bank - Biopsychology, 11th Edition (Pinel, 2021)
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. The human brain weighs about
a. 0.3 kilograms (0.7 pounds).
b. 0.8 kilograms (1.8 pounds).
c. 1.0 kilograms (2.2 pounds).
d. 1.3 kilograms (2.9 pounds).
e. 2.3 kilograms (5.1 pounds).
Answer: D
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Topic: Introduction
Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
2. The human brain is composed of various cells, including those specialized to receive and
transmit electrochemical signals, which are known as
a. glial cells.
b. axons.
c. neurons.
d. oligodendroglia.
e. sulci.
Answer: C
Difficulty Level: Easy
Topic: Introduction
Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
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Test Bank - Biopsychology, 11th Edition (Pinel, 2021)
3. The scientific study of the nervous system is called
a. neuroscience.
b. psychology.
c. biopsychology.
d. neurochemistry.
e. neurophysiology.
Answer: A
Difficulty Level: Easy
Topic: Introduction
Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
4. Jimmie G., “the man frozen in time” described in the chapter vignette, had a severe
problem with his
a. memory.
b. temperature regulation.
c. intellectual functioning.
d. allocation of attention.
e. ability to recognize faces.
Answer: A
Difficulty Level: Easy
Topic: Introduction
Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
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3|Page
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Test Bank - Biopsychology, 11th Edition (Pinel, 2021)
5. Eduardo wants to understand the development of the human brain by comparing it to the
brains of other species and theorizing about the environmental pressures that helped to
shape those brains over the long process of historical time. Which perspective on
biopsychology is Eduardo adopting?
a. historiography
b. conscious awareness perspective
c. clinical perspective
d. computational perspective
e. evolutionary perspective
Answer: E
Difficulty Level: Easy
Topic: Four Major Themes of This Text
Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by biopsychology.
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
APA Learning Objective: 1.2 Develop a working knowledge of psychology’s content domains.
6. Understanding the ongoing interaction between genes and experience is the subject
matter of
a. the clinical perspective.
b. biochemistry.
c. epigenetics.
d. neuroanatomy.
e. consciousness.
Answer: C
Difficulty Level: Easy
Topic: Emerging Themes of This Text
Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
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4|Page
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Test Bank - Biopsychology, 11th Edition (Pinel, 2021)
7. Biopsychology is the scientific study of the
a. biology of behavior.
b. brain.
c. evolution of the brain.
d. anatomy of the brain.
e. chemistry underlying cognition.
Answer: A
Difficulty Level: Easy
Topic: Defining Biopsychology Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by
biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
8. Psychobiology, behavioral biology, and behavioral neuroscience are all approximate
synonyms for
a. cognitive behavior.
b. behavioral psychology.
c. biopsychology.
d. neurophysiology.
e. neuroscience.
Answer: C
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Topic: Defining Biopsychology
Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
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5|Page
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Test Bank - Biopsychology, 11th Edition (Pinel, 2021)
9. Psychology is defined as the scientific study of
a. the physical determinants of behavior.
b. behavior.
c. emotional processes.
d. the brain.
e. learning and conditioning.
Answer: B
Difficulty Level: Easy
Topic: Defining Biopsychology
Learning Objective: 1.1 Define and discuss what is meant by biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
10. The scientist who played a key role in the emergence of biopsychology as a discipline by
writing The Organization of Behavior was
a. Roger Walcott Sperry.
b. Donald Olding Hebb.
c. Karl Spencer Lashley.
d. Brenda Milner.
e. Wilder Graves Penfield.
Answer: B
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Topic: What Are the Origins of Biopsychology?
Learning Objective: 1.2 Discuss the origins of the field of biopsychology.
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
APA Learning Objective: 1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in
psychology.
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