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1. What was the profound question posed by Gottfried Leibniz?
a. What is the nature of matter and energy?
b. Where do we go when we die?
c. How can people learn to live together?
d. Why is there something instead of nothing
? ANSWER: d
2. What is meant by the mind–body problem?
a. Where in the body is the mind located?
b. Why are certain types of brain activity conscious?
c. What happens during an out-of-body experience?
d. Do you mind what I do with your body
? ANSWER: b
3. What is biological psychology’s point of view?
a. The only effective way to treat psychological problems is through medications.
b. Evolution steadily makes us better and smarter.
c. We behave as we do because of evolved brain mechanisms.
d. Mind and brain are fundamentally separate entities.
ANSWER: c
4. When you touch something, where does the conscious perception occur?
a. In your hand
b. In your brain
c. Between your hand and your brain
d. In both your hand and your
brain ANSWER: b
5. What happens when you see something?
a. You send sight rays out of your eyes.
b. Light rays cause a response in your brain.
c. You send out sight rays that bounce back to your eyes.
d. Light rays cause your eyes to send out sight rays
. ANSWER: b
6. What does monism mean?
a. Both heredity and environment contribute to differences in behavior.
b. Both hemispheres of the brain contribute to mental experience.
c. You can think about only one thing at a time.
d. Brain activity and mental experience are the same thing
. ANSWER: d
7. What is the opposite of dualism
? a. Vegetarianism
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b. Pacifism
c. Monism
d. Solipsism
ANSWER: c
8. Mental activity and certain types of brain activity are, so far as we can tell, inseparable. This statement is consistent
with _____.
a. Leibnitzism
b. Descartism
c. dualism
d. monism
ANSWER: d
9. Your textbook lists which of these as one of the three points you should remember forever?
a. Glutamate and GABA are the most abundant transmitters in the brain.
b. The difference between human brains and other brains is mainly one of size.
c. Mental activity and brain activity are inseparable.
d. Ethical restraints put limits on what we can learn about the human brain.
ANSWER: c
10. Your textbook lists which of these as one of the three points you should remember forever?
a. People differ in their sensations and behaviors because of brain differences.
b. The transmission of an action potential depends on movements of sodium and potassium.
c. The human brain is fundamentally different from that of all other species.
d. Scientists agree that they will never understand the brain fully.
ANSWER: a
11. Which of these is NOT one of the types of explanation that biological psychologists use?
a. The intention behind the behavior
b. The brain mechanisms of the behavior
c. How the behavior developed
d. How the behavior evolved
ANSWER: a
12. What does a “functional” explanation of a behavior state?
a. Why something evolved as it did
b. How something develops during early life
c. What intention someone has when doing something
d. What brain chemistry produced an action
ANSWER: a
13. Moths fly away from a bat call because it triggers a reflex that turns the body. What type of explanation is this?
a. Physiological
b. Ontogenetic
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c. Evolutionary
d. Functional
ANSWER: a
14. Moths turn away from anything they hear because that behavior enhances the chance of survival. What type of
explanation is this?
a. Physiological
b. Ontogenetic
c. Evolutionary
d. Functional
ANSWER: d
15. A bird sings because testosterone has caused one part of its brain to grow. What type of explanation is this?
a. Physiological
b. Ontogenetic
c. Evolutionary
d. Functional
ANSWER: a
16. A bird sings a particular song because it heard it during a sensitive period early in life. What type of explanation is
this?
a. Physiological
b. Ontogenetic
c. Evolutionary
d. Functional
ANSWER: b
17. Two bird species sing similar songs because they had a recent ancestor in common. What type of explanation is this?
a. Physiological
b. Ontogenetic
c. Evolutionary
d. Functional
ANSWER: c
18. A male bird sings because the song attracts females and warns other males away. What type of explanation is this?
a. Physiological
b. Ontogenetic
c. Evolutionary
d. Functional
ANSWER: d
19. What are the four categories of biological explanations?
a. Cortical, subcortical, spinal, and peripheral
b. Electrical, chemical, mechanical, and intentional
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,Name: Class: Date:
01 The Cellular Foundations of Behavior
1. What was the profound question posed by Gottfried Leibniz?
a. What is the nature of matter and energy?
b. Where do we go when we die?
c. How can people learn to live together?
d. Why is there something instead of nothing
? ANSWER: d
2. What is meant by the mind–body problem?
a. Where in the body is the mind located?
b. Why are certain types of brain activity conscious?
c. What happens during an out-of-body experience?
d. Do you mind what I do with your body
? ANSWER: b
3. What is biological psychology’s point of view?
a. The only effective way to treat psychological problems is through medications.
b. Evolution steadily makes us better and smarter.
c. We behave as we do because of evolved brain mechanisms.
d. Mind and brain are fundamentally separate entities.
ANSWER: c
4. When you touch something, where does the conscious perception occur?
a. In your hand
b. In your brain
c. Between your hand and your brain
d. In both your hand and your
brain ANSWER: b
5. What happens when you see something?
a. You send sight rays out of your eyes.
b. Light rays cause a response in your brain.
c. You send out sight rays that bounce back to your eyes.
d. Light rays cause your eyes to send out sight rays
. ANSWER: b
6. What does monism mean?
a. Both heredity and environment contribute to differences in behavior.
b. Both hemispheres of the brain contribute to mental experience.
c. You can think about only one thing at a time.
d. Brain activity and mental experience are the same thing
. ANSWER: d
7. What is the opposite of dualism
? a. Vegetarianism
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b. Pacifism
c. Monism
d. Solipsism
ANSWER: c
8. Mental activity and certain types of brain activity are, so far as we can tell, inseparable. This statement is consistent
with _____.
a. Leibnitzism
b. Descartism
c. dualism
d. monism
ANSWER: d
9. Your textbook lists which of these as one of the three points you should remember forever?
a. Glutamate and GABA are the most abundant transmitters in the brain.
b. The difference between human brains and other brains is mainly one of size.
c. Mental activity and brain activity are inseparable.
d. Ethical restraints put limits on what we can learn about the human brain.
ANSWER: c
10. Your textbook lists which of these as one of the three points you should remember forever?
a. People differ in their sensations and behaviors because of brain differences.
b. The transmission of an action potential depends on movements of sodium and potassium.
c. The human brain is fundamentally different from that of all other species.
d. Scientists agree that they will never understand the brain fully.
ANSWER: a
11. Which of these is NOT one of the types of explanation that biological psychologists use?
a. The intention behind the behavior
b. The brain mechanisms of the behavior
c. How the behavior developed
d. How the behavior evolved
ANSWER: a
12. What does a “functional” explanation of a behavior state?
a. Why something evolved as it did
b. How something develops during early life
c. What intention someone has when doing something
d. What brain chemistry produced an action
ANSWER: a
13. Moths fly away from a bat call because it triggers a reflex that turns the body. What type of explanation is this?
a. Physiological
b. Ontogenetic
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c. Evolutionary
d. Functional
ANSWER: a
14. Moths turn away from anything they hear because that behavior enhances the chance of survival. What type of
explanation is this?
a. Physiological
b. Ontogenetic
c. Evolutionary
d. Functional
ANSWER: d
15. A bird sings because testosterone has caused one part of its brain to grow. What type of explanation is this?
a. Physiological
b. Ontogenetic
c. Evolutionary
d. Functional
ANSWER: a
16. A bird sings a particular song because it heard it during a sensitive period early in life. What type of explanation is
this?
a. Physiological
b. Ontogenetic
c. Evolutionary
d. Functional
ANSWER: b
17. Two bird species sing similar songs because they had a recent ancestor in common. What type of explanation is this?
a. Physiological
b. Ontogenetic
c. Evolutionary
d. Functional
ANSWER: c
18. A male bird sings because the song attracts females and warns other males away. What type of explanation is this?
a. Physiological
b. Ontogenetic
c. Evolutionary
d. Functional
ANSWER: d
19. What are the four categories of biological explanations?
a. Cortical, subcortical, spinal, and peripheral
b. Electrical, chemical, mechanical, and intentional
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