a. αCaMKII; α protein kinase M zeta (*)
b. αCaMKII rule
2. αCaMKII is an enzyme that is necessary for .
a. αCaMKII (*)
b. αCaMKII
c. α protein kinase M zeta (*)
d. α protein kinase M zeta
a.Zygote (*)
a.Zeitgebers are usually biological mechanisms. (*)
a.Y-sibutramine
b. Your weight
3. Your great uncle Ryan, at 70 years of age, is starting to show signs of memory problems. He has difficulty
remembering where he left his wallet and keys, and sometimes cannot recall the names of his grandkids. If
you know he has a good diet, and does not drink or smoke, what disorder can you definitively rule out?
4. Your grandmother unfortunately had a stroke over the weekend. You take her to the doctor, and the doctor
says to expect some declarative memory loss. What will your grandmother have problems with?
5. Your grandmother unfortunately had a stroke over the weekend. You take her to the doctor, and the doctor
says that despite some memory loss, her nondeclarative memory will be fine. What form of memory will
your grandmother likely NOT have any deficits?
1.Your grandmother has had a stroke and although her vision is not affected, she does not recognize
your face. However, she does recognize your voice. It sounds like your grandmother has
developed:
c.Your ghrelin levels
a. Your frontal lobe causes you to feel happy; your motor cortex causes you to laugh.
1.Your dog nudges you from sleep and you reach out to pet the dog. Feeling the dog is transmitted
through the , while petting the dog is transmitted via the .
2. Your chronotype:
d. Your CCK levels
e.Your body will attempt to “defend” your original weight.
f. Your basal metabolism (*)
a.Your attention shifts between two objects because of binocular rivalry (*)
b. Your attention is controlled by the most salient stimulus
c.Your attention can be divided between two objects equally
a. Young and Helmholtz; Hering
6. You would probably do better on your exams if you:
a. You would not see anything from your right eye
b. You would not see anything from the right side of each eye
c. You would not see anything from the left side of each eye
d. You would not see anything coming from your left eye
1. You will find very few sushi bars that will serve fugu because:
2. You take a sip of milk from the carton and find that it has spoiled. For saving you
from drinking the spoiled milk you should thank your:
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, a. You should treat the second twin in the same manner as the first twin.
b. You should not worry, since the incidence is so low.
2.You overdo it the weekend before the big test, and drink way too much alcohol. As a result, you
get very nauseous and throw up. You remember the next day that one brain area is unprotected
by the blood-brain barrier, which triggered your nausea by the excessive alcohol. This area
was the:
3. You might think twice about your next Oreo cookie if you think about the link between a
one-point increase in BMI and increased risk of temporal lobe .
1. You might speculate that substance P evolved as a specialized pain signaling mechanism
with a survival advantage, since substance P is only released during .
1. You might be surprised to learn that energy shots do not provide improved concentration and job
performance. Scientists have demonstrated that any cognitive improvement is solely due to the caffeine.
However, they may be useful in older individuals with mild intellectual disability: the ingredient has been
shown to slow both brain atrophy and cognitive decline.
4. You decide to be good to yourself and eat an entire giant cinnamon roll with lots of
icing. Afterwards, your glucoprivic hunger would be , and your lipoprivic hunger
would be
5. You can live longer without water than without food. (F)
7. You can improve your studying effectiveness by re-reading your textbook chapter several times, rather than
quizzing yourself after each paragraph or page. (F)
2.You are looking at your friend’s pictures on his smartphone. One of them is really blurry, but you still
can tell who it is. What is missing from this picture?
2. You are considering your knowledge of the chapter when answering this question. If you are focused
internally to find the answer, and are not looking up the information in your notes or the text, you are using
your
a. Yes, it has, with unilateral electroconvulsive therapy.
b. Yes, it has, with transcranial magnetic stimulation. (*)
c. Yes, it has, with short-acting anesthetics delivered to one hemisphere.
a. Yellow is perceived as a primary color. (*)
a. yellow
b. X-linked
a.Xanax
a.Writing words down onto paper
2. would tend to move into the neuron based on both their electrostatic pressure and force
of diffusion.
c. Works rapidly, but does not have lasting effects (*)
d. Working out a complicated math problem in his head
e. working memory; GABA
a. Working memory must be intact (*)
8. Working memory is:
9. Working memory is least crucial in:
a. working memory (*)
a. Working memory
b. Working memory
c. Working memory
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, d. Working memory
d. Work through similar mechanisms to increase serotonin
d. Work schedules
b. Word searching
c.Word salad (*)
d. word salad (*)
e.word salad
f. Word blindness
f. Wondering what the capital city of Nevada is
b. Women who smoke during pregnancy give birth to underweight infants.
2. Women who have had their facial muscles paralyzed by Botox, and can no longer make a
frown:
1. Women typically have sex more frequently at ovulation than at other times in their
reproductive cycle. (T)
2. Women rated the body odor of men as being more attractive when the men differed
from them in terms of .
a. Women on birth control pills exhibit a peak in sexual activity for only a few days
after menstruation occurs
2. Women are:
3. Women are:
g. Women are smarter than men
b. Women are more likely to initiate sex during the middle of their reproductive cycle
when the woman is most likely to get pregnant (*)
h. Women are cognitively more efficient than men (*)
10. Without working memory you could not:
2. Without a vestibular system we would experience:
b.Within the first trimester
c. Within the first 1–2 years after birth
a.Within several weeks, until the muscles atrophy
b. Within several months, until the nerves die
c.Within several days, until the skin heals
2. Withdrawal symptoms:
3. Withdrawal symptoms produced by abstaining from a drug are:
136. Withdrawal from cocaine includes diarrhea and vomiting. (F)
a.Withdrawal
3. With respect to the biological foundation of intelligence, larger parietal lobes might mean:
3. With respect to sexual orientation,
3. With respect to body chemistry and aggression, a particularly bad combination would appear
to be:
4. With respect to Autism Spectrum Disorder:
3. With hydrocephalus:
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, 4.With electrical stimulation during brain surgery, Penfield reported that patients:
137. With chronic alcoholism vitamin B1 deficiency can occur, which can produce Korsakoff's
syndrome. (T)
11. With age, the normal brain usually shows:
a.With a weekly allowance for keeping a clean room (*)
a. with a specific genetic similarity on the Y chromosome
4. With a history of inadequate parenting, the risk of violent criminal behavior is:
3. With a bigger fire, a larger diameter water hose will be needed to put out more water
per second. Likewise, axons have evolved to provide less resistance to the
conduction of neural potentials.
a. Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (*)
b. Winter depression
4. William, a philosophy major, asked Ian the psychology major what type of cell
contributes the most to Ian’s “being” who he is. Without hesitation, Ian replied:
6. William McDougall proposed a theory of human motivation that was based on:
a. Will traverse a maze faster with each trial that ends with obtaining food
will occur.
c.Will most likely be identified when the Human Genome Project is complete
a. Why red, blue, and green light produce white when combined
b. Why red, blue, and green light produce black when combined
2. Why is the left hemisphere said to be dominant for language?
5. Why is the corpus callosum severed in some people? What have neuroscientists learned about the
functions of the right and left hemispheres from studying individuals whose corpus callosum
has been cut?
118. Why is pain considered an adaptive emotion? What condition illustrates this aspect of pain?
7. Why is obesity bad from a medical standpoint? What are some hormones that may cause
obesity, and how we can overcome these hormonal imbalances?
4. Why is it difficult to identify specific genes for the affective disorders? Identify two that may play a role in
depression.
5. Why is it difficult to determine how much of intelligence is due to genetics and how much is due to the
environment?
5. Why is depression sometimes considered a circadian rhythm or seasonal disorder? What treatments work
best for these conditions?
6. Why is adolescence a particularly significant period in the development of schizophrenia?
1.Why have some researchers been cautious about interpreting the results of brain scans, particularly
fMRI?
7. Why does smoking improve the symptoms of schizophrenia? Of depression?
4. Why does most of what we know about sexual behavior come from studies of other
species like rats?
3. Why did researchers switch from trying to get chimpanzees to speak language to sign
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b. αCaMKII rule
2. αCaMKII is an enzyme that is necessary for .
a. αCaMKII (*)
b. αCaMKII
c. α protein kinase M zeta (*)
d. α protein kinase M zeta
a.Zygote (*)
a.Zeitgebers are usually biological mechanisms. (*)
a.Y-sibutramine
b. Your weight
3. Your great uncle Ryan, at 70 years of age, is starting to show signs of memory problems. He has difficulty
remembering where he left his wallet and keys, and sometimes cannot recall the names of his grandkids. If
you know he has a good diet, and does not drink or smoke, what disorder can you definitively rule out?
4. Your grandmother unfortunately had a stroke over the weekend. You take her to the doctor, and the doctor
says to expect some declarative memory loss. What will your grandmother have problems with?
5. Your grandmother unfortunately had a stroke over the weekend. You take her to the doctor, and the doctor
says that despite some memory loss, her nondeclarative memory will be fine. What form of memory will
your grandmother likely NOT have any deficits?
1.Your grandmother has had a stroke and although her vision is not affected, she does not recognize
your face. However, she does recognize your voice. It sounds like your grandmother has
developed:
c.Your ghrelin levels
a. Your frontal lobe causes you to feel happy; your motor cortex causes you to laugh.
1.Your dog nudges you from sleep and you reach out to pet the dog. Feeling the dog is transmitted
through the , while petting the dog is transmitted via the .
2. Your chronotype:
d. Your CCK levels
e.Your body will attempt to “defend” your original weight.
f. Your basal metabolism (*)
a.Your attention shifts between two objects because of binocular rivalry (*)
b. Your attention is controlled by the most salient stimulus
c.Your attention can be divided between two objects equally
a. Young and Helmholtz; Hering
6. You would probably do better on your exams if you:
a. You would not see anything from your right eye
b. You would not see anything from the right side of each eye
c. You would not see anything from the left side of each eye
d. You would not see anything coming from your left eye
1. You will find very few sushi bars that will serve fugu because:
2. You take a sip of milk from the carton and find that it has spoiled. For saving you
from drinking the spoiled milk you should thank your:
Page 1
, a. You should treat the second twin in the same manner as the first twin.
b. You should not worry, since the incidence is so low.
2.You overdo it the weekend before the big test, and drink way too much alcohol. As a result, you
get very nauseous and throw up. You remember the next day that one brain area is unprotected
by the blood-brain barrier, which triggered your nausea by the excessive alcohol. This area
was the:
3. You might think twice about your next Oreo cookie if you think about the link between a
one-point increase in BMI and increased risk of temporal lobe .
1. You might speculate that substance P evolved as a specialized pain signaling mechanism
with a survival advantage, since substance P is only released during .
1. You might be surprised to learn that energy shots do not provide improved concentration and job
performance. Scientists have demonstrated that any cognitive improvement is solely due to the caffeine.
However, they may be useful in older individuals with mild intellectual disability: the ingredient has been
shown to slow both brain atrophy and cognitive decline.
4. You decide to be good to yourself and eat an entire giant cinnamon roll with lots of
icing. Afterwards, your glucoprivic hunger would be , and your lipoprivic hunger
would be
5. You can live longer without water than without food. (F)
7. You can improve your studying effectiveness by re-reading your textbook chapter several times, rather than
quizzing yourself after each paragraph or page. (F)
2.You are looking at your friend’s pictures on his smartphone. One of them is really blurry, but you still
can tell who it is. What is missing from this picture?
2. You are considering your knowledge of the chapter when answering this question. If you are focused
internally to find the answer, and are not looking up the information in your notes or the text, you are using
your
a. Yes, it has, with unilateral electroconvulsive therapy.
b. Yes, it has, with transcranial magnetic stimulation. (*)
c. Yes, it has, with short-acting anesthetics delivered to one hemisphere.
a. Yellow is perceived as a primary color. (*)
a. yellow
b. X-linked
a.Xanax
a.Writing words down onto paper
2. would tend to move into the neuron based on both their electrostatic pressure and force
of diffusion.
c. Works rapidly, but does not have lasting effects (*)
d. Working out a complicated math problem in his head
e. working memory; GABA
a. Working memory must be intact (*)
8. Working memory is:
9. Working memory is least crucial in:
a. working memory (*)
a. Working memory
b. Working memory
c. Working memory
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, d. Working memory
d. Work through similar mechanisms to increase serotonin
d. Work schedules
b. Word searching
c.Word salad (*)
d. word salad (*)
e.word salad
f. Word blindness
f. Wondering what the capital city of Nevada is
b. Women who smoke during pregnancy give birth to underweight infants.
2. Women who have had their facial muscles paralyzed by Botox, and can no longer make a
frown:
1. Women typically have sex more frequently at ovulation than at other times in their
reproductive cycle. (T)
2. Women rated the body odor of men as being more attractive when the men differed
from them in terms of .
a. Women on birth control pills exhibit a peak in sexual activity for only a few days
after menstruation occurs
2. Women are:
3. Women are:
g. Women are smarter than men
b. Women are more likely to initiate sex during the middle of their reproductive cycle
when the woman is most likely to get pregnant (*)
h. Women are cognitively more efficient than men (*)
10. Without working memory you could not:
2. Without a vestibular system we would experience:
b.Within the first trimester
c. Within the first 1–2 years after birth
a.Within several weeks, until the muscles atrophy
b. Within several months, until the nerves die
c.Within several days, until the skin heals
2. Withdrawal symptoms:
3. Withdrawal symptoms produced by abstaining from a drug are:
136. Withdrawal from cocaine includes diarrhea and vomiting. (F)
a.Withdrawal
3. With respect to the biological foundation of intelligence, larger parietal lobes might mean:
3. With respect to sexual orientation,
3. With respect to body chemistry and aggression, a particularly bad combination would appear
to be:
4. With respect to Autism Spectrum Disorder:
3. With hydrocephalus:
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, 4.With electrical stimulation during brain surgery, Penfield reported that patients:
137. With chronic alcoholism vitamin B1 deficiency can occur, which can produce Korsakoff's
syndrome. (T)
11. With age, the normal brain usually shows:
a.With a weekly allowance for keeping a clean room (*)
a. with a specific genetic similarity on the Y chromosome
4. With a history of inadequate parenting, the risk of violent criminal behavior is:
3. With a bigger fire, a larger diameter water hose will be needed to put out more water
per second. Likewise, axons have evolved to provide less resistance to the
conduction of neural potentials.
a. Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (*)
b. Winter depression
4. William, a philosophy major, asked Ian the psychology major what type of cell
contributes the most to Ian’s “being” who he is. Without hesitation, Ian replied:
6. William McDougall proposed a theory of human motivation that was based on:
a. Will traverse a maze faster with each trial that ends with obtaining food
will occur.
c.Will most likely be identified when the Human Genome Project is complete
a. Why red, blue, and green light produce white when combined
b. Why red, blue, and green light produce black when combined
2. Why is the left hemisphere said to be dominant for language?
5. Why is the corpus callosum severed in some people? What have neuroscientists learned about the
functions of the right and left hemispheres from studying individuals whose corpus callosum
has been cut?
118. Why is pain considered an adaptive emotion? What condition illustrates this aspect of pain?
7. Why is obesity bad from a medical standpoint? What are some hormones that may cause
obesity, and how we can overcome these hormonal imbalances?
4. Why is it difficult to identify specific genes for the affective disorders? Identify two that may play a role in
depression.
5. Why is it difficult to determine how much of intelligence is due to genetics and how much is due to the
environment?
5. Why is depression sometimes considered a circadian rhythm or seasonal disorder? What treatments work
best for these conditions?
6. Why is adolescence a particularly significant period in the development of schizophrenia?
1.Why have some researchers been cautious about interpreting the results of brain scans, particularly
fMRI?
7. Why does smoking improve the symptoms of schizophrenia? Of depression?
4. Why does most of what we know about sexual behavior come from studies of other
species like rats?
3. Why did researchers switch from trying to get chimpanzees to speak language to sign
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