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Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience
by Bob Garrett, Gerald Hough
Sixth Edition
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Chapter 1
Multiple Choice (Correct answers delineated with *)
1. The decade of the 1990s was designated as the decade of:
a. The brain (*)
b. Behavior
c. Mind
d. Cognition
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2. If someone is interested in the relationships between behavior and the body, what area of
science do they work in?
a. Psychobiology
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b. Biopsychology
c. Physiological psychology
d. All of these areas are correct. (*)
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3. Neuroscience is the multidisciplinary study of the and its role in behavior:
a. Brain
b. Nervous system (*)
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c. Mind
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d. Human psyche
4. The annual costs of brain disorders and addictions in the United States is an estimated:
a. 100 trillion dollars
b. 500 billion dollars
c. 1 trillion dollars (*)
d. 5 trillion dollars
5. Psychologists use the term behavior to refer to:
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a. Overt acts
b. Learning
c. Emotions
d. All of the above (*)
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6. Which of the following questions would a biopsychologist be least likely to study?
a. How does the brain’s activity result in consciousness? (*)
b. What changes occur in the nervous system when a person learns?
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c. How do people in different cultures view mental illness?
d. What is the physiological explanation for depression?
7. If you were able to build a time machine, and wanted to travel back to observe the first
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psychology laboratory, where would you go?
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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
8. The mind-brain question:
a. Is concerned with the nature of the mind and its relation to the brain (*)
b. Was originally posed by early neuroscientists and remains unsolved today
c. Usually involves a choice between the positions of psychology and philosophy
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d. All of the other alternatives are correct.
9. The textbook author views the mind as a:
a. Spirit
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b. Soul
c. Collection of things the brain does, such as planning and feeling
d. Concept (*)
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10. Which of the following statements is most consistent with the materialistic monist view
of the mind-brain problem?
a. Both hemispheres of the brain work together.
b. The brain and the mind are both physical. (*)
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c. Everything is made of matter and energy.
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