EEOB 2520 Midterm questions with
complete solutions
Biorhythms are a ______response to a stimulus and are a type of______
A. Reactive - negative feedback
B. Proactive - negative feedback
C. Reactive - feedforward
D. Proactive - feedforward - correct answer ✔✔D. Proactive - feedforward
Which is a correct written version of 1 of the 4 critical equations? (G= glucose)
A. PT = nRV
B. ATP <-> ADP + Pi
C. ADP + Pi + G + O2 <-> H2O + CO2 + ATP + heat
D. HCO3- + H+ <-> CO2 + H2O - correct answer ✔✔D. HCO3- + H+ <-> CO2 + H2O
(or) ADP + Pi + G -> H2O + CO2 + ATP + heat
Brutus Buckeye regularly eats breakfast at 8 am. However, today he woke up late and missed breakfast
so he could get his young nuts to their school on time. While on that school commute, he realized that
he was not feeling like his usual self. Recalling physiology training, he correctly determined that his
altered state was due to:
A. Positive feedback
B. Positive feedforward
C. Negative feedback
D. None is correct - correct answer ✔✔D. None is correct
Dr. Gray has been working with the OSU Men's basketball team. For their November trip to the 2022
Maui Invitational in Hawaii, Dr. Gray correctly realized that the team would experience
a(n)_________due to the difference time zone and this experience would be:
A. Feedforward - irreversible
,B. Acclimatization - reversible
C. Developmental acclimatization - irreversible
D. Adaption - reversible - correct answer ✔✔B. Acclimatization - reversible
From Bloom's Taxonomy, a greater portion (60%) of the assessment will be based on _____ instead of
______
A. Analyzing- understanding
B. Creating- understanding
C. Analyzing-differentiating
D. Creating-differentiating - correct answer ✔✔A. Analyzing - understanding
Which is a correct statement about the levels of learning in Bloom's Revised Taxonomy?
A. Paraphrasing is one of the 2 lowest levels of demonstrations of learning
B. Differentiating is a demonstration of applying
C. You will not be required to judge on your weekly exam
D. Memorizing and classifying are demonstrations of the lowest level of learning - correct answer ✔✔A.
Paraphrasing is one of the 2 lowest levels of demonstrations of learning
(or) You will not be required to assemble on your weekly exams
Communication from a sensor will _____ lead to the activity on the______
A. Only sometimes - integrator
B. Only sometimes - stimulator
C. Only sometimes - efferent pathway
D. Always - compensatory response - correct answer ✔✔C. Only sometimes - efferent pathway
(or) Always - afferent pathway
Always - integrator
As a piece of their Personal Success Plan, your classmate Carmen Oh will be going to the Party Room at
regular times each week to help minimize their time devoted to this course. While in there this week,
, they started shivering. Utilizing their new physiology, they correctly realized that their shivering was an
example of ______ and they were moving ______.
A. Positive feedback - toward steady state
B. Negative feedback - toward set point
C. Negative feedback - toward disturbance
D. Feedforward - away from disturbance - correct answer ✔✔B. Negative feedback - toward set point
(or) Negative feedback - away from the disturbance
Foot binding was a cultural practice. Young girl;s' feet were bound (typically by cloth) to prevent them
from getting larger but their foot bones were deformed by the process. As adults, the binding wires
removed and their feet remained small. This is the example of: _______
A. Acclimatization
B. Adaption
C. Developmental adaption
D. Developmental acclimatization - correct answer ✔✔D. Developmental acclimatization
Phys Phab Salwa was traveling in Japan recently. She correctly realized that:__
A. She would need to acclimate to this new time zone, which is a change based on internal clocks.
B. Her phases of the circadian type would be shifting
C. Both statements are correct
D. Neither statement is correct - correct answer ✔✔D. Neither statement is correct
(or) She would need to acclimate to this new time zone, which is a change based on environmental
Which is a correct statement about equilibrium?
A. It occurs when a parameter is maintaining steady state
B. Negative feedback will move parameters towards it
C. Both are correct
D. Neither is correct - correct answer ✔✔D. Neither is correct
Which is a correct statement about our homeostasis?
complete solutions
Biorhythms are a ______response to a stimulus and are a type of______
A. Reactive - negative feedback
B. Proactive - negative feedback
C. Reactive - feedforward
D. Proactive - feedforward - correct answer ✔✔D. Proactive - feedforward
Which is a correct written version of 1 of the 4 critical equations? (G= glucose)
A. PT = nRV
B. ATP <-> ADP + Pi
C. ADP + Pi + G + O2 <-> H2O + CO2 + ATP + heat
D. HCO3- + H+ <-> CO2 + H2O - correct answer ✔✔D. HCO3- + H+ <-> CO2 + H2O
(or) ADP + Pi + G -> H2O + CO2 + ATP + heat
Brutus Buckeye regularly eats breakfast at 8 am. However, today he woke up late and missed breakfast
so he could get his young nuts to their school on time. While on that school commute, he realized that
he was not feeling like his usual self. Recalling physiology training, he correctly determined that his
altered state was due to:
A. Positive feedback
B. Positive feedforward
C. Negative feedback
D. None is correct - correct answer ✔✔D. None is correct
Dr. Gray has been working with the OSU Men's basketball team. For their November trip to the 2022
Maui Invitational in Hawaii, Dr. Gray correctly realized that the team would experience
a(n)_________due to the difference time zone and this experience would be:
A. Feedforward - irreversible
,B. Acclimatization - reversible
C. Developmental acclimatization - irreversible
D. Adaption - reversible - correct answer ✔✔B. Acclimatization - reversible
From Bloom's Taxonomy, a greater portion (60%) of the assessment will be based on _____ instead of
______
A. Analyzing- understanding
B. Creating- understanding
C. Analyzing-differentiating
D. Creating-differentiating - correct answer ✔✔A. Analyzing - understanding
Which is a correct statement about the levels of learning in Bloom's Revised Taxonomy?
A. Paraphrasing is one of the 2 lowest levels of demonstrations of learning
B. Differentiating is a demonstration of applying
C. You will not be required to judge on your weekly exam
D. Memorizing and classifying are demonstrations of the lowest level of learning - correct answer ✔✔A.
Paraphrasing is one of the 2 lowest levels of demonstrations of learning
(or) You will not be required to assemble on your weekly exams
Communication from a sensor will _____ lead to the activity on the______
A. Only sometimes - integrator
B. Only sometimes - stimulator
C. Only sometimes - efferent pathway
D. Always - compensatory response - correct answer ✔✔C. Only sometimes - efferent pathway
(or) Always - afferent pathway
Always - integrator
As a piece of their Personal Success Plan, your classmate Carmen Oh will be going to the Party Room at
regular times each week to help minimize their time devoted to this course. While in there this week,
, they started shivering. Utilizing their new physiology, they correctly realized that their shivering was an
example of ______ and they were moving ______.
A. Positive feedback - toward steady state
B. Negative feedback - toward set point
C. Negative feedback - toward disturbance
D. Feedforward - away from disturbance - correct answer ✔✔B. Negative feedback - toward set point
(or) Negative feedback - away from the disturbance
Foot binding was a cultural practice. Young girl;s' feet were bound (typically by cloth) to prevent them
from getting larger but their foot bones were deformed by the process. As adults, the binding wires
removed and their feet remained small. This is the example of: _______
A. Acclimatization
B. Adaption
C. Developmental adaption
D. Developmental acclimatization - correct answer ✔✔D. Developmental acclimatization
Phys Phab Salwa was traveling in Japan recently. She correctly realized that:__
A. She would need to acclimate to this new time zone, which is a change based on internal clocks.
B. Her phases of the circadian type would be shifting
C. Both statements are correct
D. Neither statement is correct - correct answer ✔✔D. Neither statement is correct
(or) She would need to acclimate to this new time zone, which is a change based on environmental
Which is a correct statement about equilibrium?
A. It occurs when a parameter is maintaining steady state
B. Negative feedback will move parameters towards it
C. Both are correct
D. Neither is correct - correct answer ✔✔D. Neither is correct
Which is a correct statement about our homeostasis?
