TEST BANK FOR BRAIN & BEHAVIOR AN INTRODUCTION TO BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE, 5TH EDITION, BOB GARRETT, GERALD HOUGH

TEST BANK FOR BRAIN & BEHAVIOR AN INTRODUCTION
TO BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE, 5TH EDITION, BOB
GARRETT, GERALD HOUGH

,Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. What modern invention has the brain been compared to in terms of storage capacity?
a. a Google server
b. a smartphone
c. the Internet
d. a compact disc
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What is Behavioral Neuroscience?
Difficulty Level: Easy

2. The decade of the 1990s was designated as the decade of ______.
a. the brain
b. the mind
c. cognition
d. behavior
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1-3: Identify the role of physiologists in the establishment of
modern-day behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What is Behavioral Neuroscience?
Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Which of the following is a recent discovery in the field of behavioral neuroscience?
a. The cause of depression has been identified.
b. Dementia has been cured.
c. The brain area responsible for consciousness has been identified.

,d. Genes for schizophrenia have been identified.
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-3: Identify the role of physiologists in the establishment of
modern-day behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What is Behavioral Neuroscience?
Difficulty Level: Easy

4. What do behavioral neuroscientists study?
a. the relationship between the body and the brain
b. the relationship between behavior and the body
c. the structure of the body
d. the rules that describe how behavior is modifiable by experience
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Origins of Behavioral Neuroscience
Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Which of the following terms can be used interchangeably with “behavioral
neuroscience”?
a. psychology
b. biology
c. behavioral genetics
d. psychobiology
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Origins of Behavioral Neuroscience
Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Psychologists consider emotions, thoughts, memories, and observable acts to be
characterized as ______.
a. cognitions
b. behaviors
c. processes
d. mysteries of the mind
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Origins of Behavioral Neuroscience
Difficulty Level: Easy

, 7. Which of the following would be a question that a behavioral neuroscientist would
investigate?
a. Which neurotransmitter systems are responsible for the development of drug
addiction?
b. Which muscles focus the eye on a moving object?
c. Is there a genetic predisposition for cancer?
d. What are the diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder?
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Origins of Behavioral Neuroscience
Difficulty Level: Hard

8. If you were able to build a time machine and wanted to travel back to observe the first
psychology laboratory, where would you go?
a. to Charles Darwin’s office in Germany
b. to Charles Darwin’s boat in England
c. to Wilhelm Wundt’s lab in Germany
d. to Rene Descartes’ apothecary in France
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Origins of Behavioral Neuroscience
Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Which of the following is true of the mind–brain question?
a. It was originally posed by early neuroscientists and remains unsolved today.
b. It is concerned with the nature of the mind and its relation to the brain.
c. It usually involves a choice between the positions of psychology and philosophy.
d. It usually involves a choice between the positions of psychology and biology.
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Prescientific Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem
Difficulty Level: Easy

10. The textbook authors and many neuroscientists view the mind as a ______.
a. spirit
b. soul
c. source of our actions
d. concept
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension