Test Bank | An Introduction to Brain and Behavior, 7th Edition
Bryan Kolb; Ian Q. Whishaw
TEST BANK
Includes All Chapters (1 to 16)
Answers Included
,Name: Class: Date:
Chap 01 7e Kolb
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. You have discovered a new breed of monkey in the jungles of South America. The diet of these monkeys
appears to consist mainly of fruit. Based on what you know about evolution and other fruit-eating monkeys,
which statement is likely to apply to this newly discovered breed of monkey?
a. They will have color vision.
b. They will have relatively larger brains (with respect to body size).
c. They will have larger social groups.
d. All of the answers are correct.
ANSWER: d
2. Which of the following is NOT correlated with brain size within a species?
a. health
b. gender
c. age
d. intelligence
ANSWER: d
3. The oldest fossils that have been identified as human are approximately:
a. 5.1 million years old.
b. 200,000 years old.
c. 2.8 million years old.
d. 1.3 million years old.
ANSWER: c
4. Mentalism is:
a. the study of the mind.
b. mental imagery.
c. the notion that the mind is responsible for behavior.
d. another word for mindfulness.
ANSWER: c
Page 1
,Name: Class: Date:
Chap 01 7e Kolb
5. You and one of your grandparents both take the same intelligence test, and you score almost 20 points
higher! This is an example of the _____, and it is likely due to _____.
a. Flynn effect; differences in education and/or life experiences
b. Flynn effect; the increasing size of the human brain over generations
c. Spearman effect; increasing size of the human brain over generations
d. Spearman effect; differences in education and/or life experiences
ANSWER: a
6. _____ is the complex learned behaviors passed on from one generation to another.
a. Neoteny
b. Evolution
c. Culture
d. Intelligence
ANSWER: c
7. Chordates get their name from notochord which is a:
a. spinal cord and a brain.
b. longitudinal flexible rod in the back.
c. segmented spine.
d. segmented spine and spinal cord.
ANSWER: b
8. It is well documented that the brain changes across the lifespan. For example, good nutrition and exposure
to an enriched environment during early life can both increase brain size. This phenomenon is referred to as:
a. Plasticity
b. Neoteny
c. Diversity
d. Adaptability
ANSWER: a
Page 2
, Name: Class: Date:
Chap 01 7e Kolb
9. If other organisms have large brains in relationship to their body size, then why is human behavior in
particular so complex?
a. Humans have different kinds of neurons compared to other organisms.
b. Other organisms do not have as many neurons as humans.
c. Because what distinguishes humans from other species is not how small or large, dense or scarce our
cortical neurons are, but simply how many of them we have to do the job of navigating through life.
d. The neurons of the human brain are loosely packed.
ANSWER: c
10. All the nerve processes radiating out beyond the brain and spinal cord as well as all the neurons outside the
brain and spinal cord constitute the:
a. cranial sensory nerves.
b. central nervous system.
c. peripheral nervous system.
d. external nervous system.
ANSWER: c
11. Modern Europeans may have acquired genes that helped them adapt to the cold and absorb more vitamin D
through interbreeding with:
a. Homo habilis.
b. Homo erectus.
c. Neanderthals.
d. Australopithecus.
ANSWER: c
12. The primate order contains approximately:
a. 275 species.
b. 376 species.
c. 475 species.
d. 575 species.
ANSWER: b
Page 3
Bryan Kolb; Ian Q. Whishaw
TEST BANK
Includes All Chapters (1 to 16)
Answers Included
,Name: Class: Date:
Chap 01 7e Kolb
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. You have discovered a new breed of monkey in the jungles of South America. The diet of these monkeys
appears to consist mainly of fruit. Based on what you know about evolution and other fruit-eating monkeys,
which statement is likely to apply to this newly discovered breed of monkey?
a. They will have color vision.
b. They will have relatively larger brains (with respect to body size).
c. They will have larger social groups.
d. All of the answers are correct.
ANSWER: d
2. Which of the following is NOT correlated with brain size within a species?
a. health
b. gender
c. age
d. intelligence
ANSWER: d
3. The oldest fossils that have been identified as human are approximately:
a. 5.1 million years old.
b. 200,000 years old.
c. 2.8 million years old.
d. 1.3 million years old.
ANSWER: c
4. Mentalism is:
a. the study of the mind.
b. mental imagery.
c. the notion that the mind is responsible for behavior.
d. another word for mindfulness.
ANSWER: c
Page 1
,Name: Class: Date:
Chap 01 7e Kolb
5. You and one of your grandparents both take the same intelligence test, and you score almost 20 points
higher! This is an example of the _____, and it is likely due to _____.
a. Flynn effect; differences in education and/or life experiences
b. Flynn effect; the increasing size of the human brain over generations
c. Spearman effect; increasing size of the human brain over generations
d. Spearman effect; differences in education and/or life experiences
ANSWER: a
6. _____ is the complex learned behaviors passed on from one generation to another.
a. Neoteny
b. Evolution
c. Culture
d. Intelligence
ANSWER: c
7. Chordates get their name from notochord which is a:
a. spinal cord and a brain.
b. longitudinal flexible rod in the back.
c. segmented spine.
d. segmented spine and spinal cord.
ANSWER: b
8. It is well documented that the brain changes across the lifespan. For example, good nutrition and exposure
to an enriched environment during early life can both increase brain size. This phenomenon is referred to as:
a. Plasticity
b. Neoteny
c. Diversity
d. Adaptability
ANSWER: a
Page 2
, Name: Class: Date:
Chap 01 7e Kolb
9. If other organisms have large brains in relationship to their body size, then why is human behavior in
particular so complex?
a. Humans have different kinds of neurons compared to other organisms.
b. Other organisms do not have as many neurons as humans.
c. Because what distinguishes humans from other species is not how small or large, dense or scarce our
cortical neurons are, but simply how many of them we have to do the job of navigating through life.
d. The neurons of the human brain are loosely packed.
ANSWER: c
10. All the nerve processes radiating out beyond the brain and spinal cord as well as all the neurons outside the
brain and spinal cord constitute the:
a. cranial sensory nerves.
b. central nervous system.
c. peripheral nervous system.
d. external nervous system.
ANSWER: c
11. Modern Europeans may have acquired genes that helped them adapt to the cold and absorb more vitamin D
through interbreeding with:
a. Homo habilis.
b. Homo erectus.
c. Neanderthals.
d. Australopithecus.
ANSWER: c
12. The primate order contains approximately:
a. 275 species.
b. 376 species.
c. 475 species.
d. 575 species.
ANSWER: b
Page 3
