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Chapter 1 What Are the Origins of Brain and Behavior? Chapter2
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. What Is the Nervous System’sFunctional Anatomy?Chapter3
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. What Arethe Nervous System’s Functional Units?
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Chapter4 HowDo Neurons UseElectrical Signals to Transmit Information?Chapter5
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. How Do Neurons Communicate and Adapt?
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Chapter 6 How Do Drugs and Hormones Influence the Brain and Behavior?Chapter7
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. How Do We Studythe Brain’s Structures and Functions?
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Chapter8 HowDoestheNervous SystemDevelop and
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Adapt?Chapter9 How Do We Sense, Perceive, and See the World?
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Chapter10 HowDo We Hear, Speak, and Make Music?
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Chapter11 HowDoes the Nervous System Respond to Stimulation and Produce
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Movement?Chapter12 What Causes Emotional and Motivated Behavior?
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Chapter 13 Why Do We Sleep and Dream?
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. Chapter14HowDoWe Learn and
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Remember?Chapter15 How Does the Brain
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Chapter16 What Happens When the Brain Misbehaves?
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,Chapter1–WhataretheoriginsofBrainandBehaviour?
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1. Brainabnormalitiescan berelatedto:
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A) 500 disorders. .
B) 1000disorders. .
C) 1500disorders. .
D) morethan 2,000 disorders. . . .
2. Allthe nerveprocessesradiating out beyond the brain and spinalcordas well as all theneurons
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outside the brain and spinal cord constitutethe:
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A) nervoussystem. .
B) centralnervous system. . .
C) peripheralnervoussystem. . .
D) externalnervoussystem. . .
3. Which isNOTpart of theperipheral nervous system?
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A) sensoryreceptors in theskin . . . .
B) connectionstomotor neurons . . .
C) sensoryand motorconnectionstointernalorgans (e.g.,thestomach) . . . . . . . . .
D) thespinal cord . .
4. Theset ofbrain structures responsibleformost ofour unconsciousbehaviors iscalled:
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A) thecerebralhemisphere. . .
B) thebrainstem. .
C) thecerebrum. .
D) thecerebellum. .
5. Thepostulation that wemakesubliminal movementsofour larynx andmuscles whenwe
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imagine was expounded by:
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A) D. O. Hebb. . .
B) EdmondJacobson. .
C) IrenäusEibl-Eibesfeldt. .
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, D) Fred Linge. .
6. “Behavior consistsofpatterns intime”isa definitionofbehavior expounded by:
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A) D. O. Hebb.. .
B) EdmondJacobson. .
C) IrenäusEibl-Eibesfeldt. .
D) Fred Linge. .
7. Patternsin time can be made upof:
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A) movements.
B) thinking.
C) bothmovementsand thinking.
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D) neithermovementsnorthinking. . . .
8. Animalswith smaller brainsandsimplernervoussystemshave mostly
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behaviors,whereas animalswith largerbrains and morecomplex nervoussystems have mostly
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. behaviors.
A) learned;inherited .
B) inherited;learned .
C) innate;inherited .
D) learned;innate .
9. Crossbillbirdshave abeak thatis designed to eat pine cones. If wetrim thebeak, thebehavior
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disappears.This example illustrates:
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A) fixedbehavior. .
B) flexiblebehavior. .
C) learnedbehavior. .
D) adaptivebehavior. .
10. Thesucking responseobserved innewborn human infantsis anexample ofa(n):
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A) learnedresponse. .
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, B) inheritedresponse. .
C) flexibleresponse. .
D) adaptiveresponse .
11. Whichstatementisthe MOSTaccurate?
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A) Nonhuman animals have mostlyinherited behavior and are little influenced . . . . . . . . .
bylearning.
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B) Humansshare manyinherited behaviorsbut aremostlyinfluencedbylearning.
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C) Unlike nonhuman animals, humans share very few inherited behaviors and
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aremostlyinfluenced bylearning.
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D) Unlikenonhuman animals,humans'behavior istotallylearned.
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12. Thehypothesis that thepsycheis responsible for behavior wasexpounded by:
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A) CharlesDarwin. .
B) RenéDescartes. .
C) Aristotle.
D) Socrates.
13. Mentalismis: .
A) thestudyof the mind.
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B) mentalimagery. .
C) thenotionthatthemindisresponsibleforbehavior.
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D) another word formindfulness. . . .
14. The is a nonmaterial entitythat is responsible for intelligence,
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attention,awareness, and consciousness.
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A) brain
B) heart
C) mind
D) conscience
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,15. Thenotion that the mindresides in thepinealbodycomes from:
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A) CharlesDarwin. .
B) RenéDescartes.
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C) Aristotle.
D) Socrates.
16. Accordingto thephilosophyofdualism:
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A) thebodyinfluences themind.
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B) thepineal bodyis themind.
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C) the pineal bodyinfluences the bodybydirecting fluids from the ventricles to
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themuscles.
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D) thepineal bodyisthemind and influencesthe bodybydirectingfluids from
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theventricles to the muscles.
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17. Subsequentresearch indicated thatthe pinealbodywas responsiblefor
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ratherthan controlling human behavior.
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A) vision
B) problemsolving .
C) movement
D) biological rhythms .
18. Thedifficultyinexplaining howa nonmaterial mindcan influenceamaterial bodyiscalled:
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A) themind problem.
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B) themind-bodyproblem.
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C) thebrain problem.
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D) thepsyche problem
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19. Descartes'sfollowerswouldarguethat: . . . .
A) themind and the bodyareseparateat birth.
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B) humansandveryfew other animalshave minds. . . . . . . .
C) youngchildren do nothave minds.
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, D) thementallyillhave minds.
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20. Thenotion thatall behavior can beexplained bytheworkings ofthe brainis commonlyreferred
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to as:
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A) psychology.
B) experimentalism.
C) materialism.
D) dualism.
21. Thenotion that all living things are related was putforwardby:
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A) CharlesDarwin. .
B) AlfredRusselWallace. . .
C) neitherCharlesDarwinnorAlfredRusselWallace.
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D) both Charles Darwin andAlfred RusselWallace.
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22. Thenotionthat differential successinthe reproduction ofcharacteristicsresults
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frominteractions between organisms and their environmentis known as:
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A) naturalselection. .
B) genetictheory. .
C) biologicaltheory. .
D) innatebehavior. .
23. Imagesofblood flowinthe brainin monkeys havedemonstrated that:
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A) humansandmonkeys usedifferentbrainareas forlanguage. . . . . . . . .
B) humansandmonkeys usethesame brainareas forlanguage. . . . . . . . . .
C) monkeys showno brain activationforlanguagebecause theycannot . . . . . . . . .
understandlanguage.
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D) None oftheanswersis correct. . . . . .
24. Individualvariation inplantsand animalswas first explainedby:
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A) CharlesDarwin. .
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, B) Gregor Mendel . . .
C) neitherCharlesDarwinnorGregorMendel. . . . . .
D) bothCharles DarwinandGregorMendel. . . . . .
25. Thestudyof howgeneticexpression is relatedtothe environmentand experienceisknown
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A) genotyping.
B) phenotyping.
C) epigenetics.
D) environmentalgenetics. .
26. Neuroscientists studythenervoussystemsofother animalssuch asslugs,snails,fruitflies, . . . . . . . . . . . . .
rats and monkeys because:
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A) ifallanimalsare relatedthen all nervoussystemsare relatedand wecanlearnabout
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the human brain bystudying other animals.
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B) allanimals'nervoussystemsare different, whichmeans thatweneed tostudyeachanimal
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separatelyinorder to understandhowtheir specificnervoussystem works.
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C) themind andthe bodyareseparatewhich means thatweneed to studyavarietyofdifferent
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animals to see how their minds work.
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D) None oftheanswersis correct. . . . . .
27. Inheritedbehavior: .
A) isdemonstratedonlybyanimalinstincts.
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B) includes emotionalexpressionsinhumans. . . . .
C) cannotinclude emotional expressionsin humansbecausethebehaviorislearned.
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D) includes emotionalexpression inanimalsbutnot inhumans. . . . . . . . .
28. Ofthe100,000people inthe UnitedStateswhomaybecomecomatoseinagiven year,how
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manyrecover consciousness?
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A) 5percent .
B) 20percent .
C) 30percent .
D) 50percent .
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, 29. Aperson who can displaysome rudimentarybehaviors such as smiling or blinking but
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isotherwisenot conscious is described as being:
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A) in acoma. . .
B) inapersistentvegetativestate.
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C) inaminimallyconsciousstate.
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D) braindead. .
30. Inastudywith a patientina minimallyconscious state, Schiffand colleaguesfoundthat
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A) deepbrainstimulation . .
B) reading tothe patient . . .
C) musictherapy .
D) genetherapy .
31. Thefirst humanlikebrain evolved:
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A) 700million years ago. . . .
B) 250million years ago. . . .
C) 6million years ago.
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D) 100,000 to200,000 years ago. . . . .
32. Thefirst brainevolved . . .
approximately:A) 100,000 to
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200,000 years ago.
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B) 3million to4 million years ago.
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C) 250million years ago. . . .
D) 700million years ago. . . .
33. Humans areof the order . . . . and the family
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A) mammals;primates .
B) primates;mammals .
C) primates;greatapes . .
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