Biological Psychology
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James W. Kalat
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, Biological Psychology – 14th Edition
(ISBN 9780357798126)
James W. Kalat
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. The Cellular Foundations of Behavior
Chapter 2. Synapses
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Chapter 3. Anatomy and Research Methods
Chapter 4. Genetics, Development, and Plasticity
Chapter 5. Vision
Chapter 6. Hearing, the Mechanical Senses, and the Chemical Senses
Chapter 7. Movement
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Chapter 8. Wakefulness and Sleep
Chapter 9. Internal Regulation
Chapter 10. Reproductive Behaviors
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Chapter 11. Emotional Behaviors
Chapter 12. Learning, Memory, and Intelligence
Chapter 13. Cognitive Functions
Chapter 14. Psychopathology
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01 The Cellular Foundations of Behavior
1. What was the profound question posed by Gottfried Leibniz?
a. What is the nature of matter and energy?
b. Where do we go when we die?
c. How can people learn to live together?
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d. Why is there something instead of nothing?
ANSWER: d
2. What is meant by the mind–body problem?
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a. Where in the body is the mind located?
b. Why are certain types of brain activity conscious?
c. What happens during an out-of-body experience?
d. Do you mind what I do with your body?
ANSWER: b
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3. What is biological psychology’s point of view?
a. The only effective way to treat psychological problems is through medications.
b. Evolution steadily makes us better and smarter.
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c. We behave as we do because of evolved brain mechanisms.
d. Mind and brain are fundamentally separate entities.
ANSWER: c
4. When you touch something, where does the conscious perception occur?
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a. In your hand
b. In your brain
c. Between your hand and your brain
d. In both your hand and your brain
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ANSWER: b
5. What happens when you see something?
a. You send sight rays out of your eyes.
b. Light rays cause a response in your brain.
c. You send out sight rays that bounce back to your eyes.
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d. Light rays cause your eyes to send out sight rays.
ANSWER: b
6. What does monism mean?
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a. Both heredity and environment contribute to differences in behavior.
b. Both hemispheres of the brain contribute to mental experience.
c. You can think about only one thing at a time.
d. Brain activity and mental experience are the same thing.
ANSWER: d
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7. What is the opposite of dualism?
a. Vegetarianism
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b. Pacifism
c. Monism
d. Solipsism
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ANSWER: c
8. Mental activity and certain types of brain activity are, so far as we can tell, inseparable. This statement is consistent
with _____.
a. Leibnitzism
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b. Descartism
c. dualism
d. monism
ANSWER: d
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9. Your textbook lists which of these as one of the three points you should remember forever?
a. Glutamate and GABA are the most abundant transmitters in the brain.
b. The difference between human brains and other brains is mainly one of size.
c. Mental activity and brain activity are inseparable.
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d. Ethical restraints put limits on what we can learn about the human brain.
ANSWER: c
10. Your textbook lists which of these as one of the three points you should remember forever?
a. People differ in their sensations and behaviors because of brain differences.
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b. The transmission of an action potential depends on movements of sodium and potassium.
c. The human brain is fundamentally different from that of all other species.
d. Scientists agree that they will never understand the brain fully.
ANSWER: a
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11. Which of these is NOT one of the types of explanation that biological psychologists use?
a. The intention behind the behavior
b. The brain mechanisms of the behavior
c. How the behavior developed
d. How the behavior evolved
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ANSWER: a
12. What does a “functional” explanation of a behavior state?
a. Why something evolved as it did
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b. How something develops during early life
c. What intention someone has when doing something
d. What brain chemistry produced an action
ANSWER: a
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13. Moths fly away from a bat call because it triggers a reflex that turns the body. What type of explanation is this?
a. Physiological
b. Ontogenetic
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14th Edition
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TEST BANK
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PP
James W. Kalat
RO
Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors
VE
and Students
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© James W. Kalat. All rights reserved. Reproduction or distribution without permission is
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prohibited.
©MEDGEEK
, Biological Psychology – 14th Edition
(ISBN 9780357798126)
James W. Kalat
ST
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. The Cellular Foundations of Behavior
Chapter 2. Synapses
UV
Chapter 3. Anatomy and Research Methods
Chapter 4. Genetics, Development, and Plasticity
Chapter 5. Vision
Chapter 6. Hearing, the Mechanical Senses, and the Chemical Senses
Chapter 7. Movement
IA
Chapter 8. Wakefulness and Sleep
Chapter 9. Internal Regulation
Chapter 10. Reproductive Behaviors
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Chapter 11. Emotional Behaviors
Chapter 12. Learning, Memory, and Intelligence
Chapter 13. Cognitive Functions
Chapter 14. Psychopathology
PP
RO
VE
D?
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©MEDGEEK
, Name: Class: Date:
01 The Cellular Foundations of Behavior
1. What was the profound question posed by Gottfried Leibniz?
a. What is the nature of matter and energy?
b. Where do we go when we die?
c. How can people learn to live together?
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d. Why is there something instead of nothing?
ANSWER: d
2. What is meant by the mind–body problem?
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a. Where in the body is the mind located?
b. Why are certain types of brain activity conscious?
c. What happens during an out-of-body experience?
d. Do you mind what I do with your body?
ANSWER: b
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3. What is biological psychology’s point of view?
a. The only effective way to treat psychological problems is through medications.
b. Evolution steadily makes us better and smarter.
_A
c. We behave as we do because of evolved brain mechanisms.
d. Mind and brain are fundamentally separate entities.
ANSWER: c
4. When you touch something, where does the conscious perception occur?
PP
a. In your hand
b. In your brain
c. Between your hand and your brain
d. In both your hand and your brain
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ANSWER: b
5. What happens when you see something?
a. You send sight rays out of your eyes.
b. Light rays cause a response in your brain.
c. You send out sight rays that bounce back to your eyes.
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d. Light rays cause your eyes to send out sight rays.
ANSWER: b
6. What does monism mean?
D?
a. Both heredity and environment contribute to differences in behavior.
b. Both hemispheres of the brain contribute to mental experience.
c. You can think about only one thing at a time.
d. Brain activity and mental experience are the same thing.
ANSWER: d
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7. What is the opposite of dualism?
a. Vegetarianism
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b. Pacifism
c. Monism
d. Solipsism
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ANSWER: c
8. Mental activity and certain types of brain activity are, so far as we can tell, inseparable. This statement is consistent
with _____.
a. Leibnitzism
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b. Descartism
c. dualism
d. monism
ANSWER: d
IA
9. Your textbook lists which of these as one of the three points you should remember forever?
a. Glutamate and GABA are the most abundant transmitters in the brain.
b. The difference between human brains and other brains is mainly one of size.
c. Mental activity and brain activity are inseparable.
_A
d. Ethical restraints put limits on what we can learn about the human brain.
ANSWER: c
10. Your textbook lists which of these as one of the three points you should remember forever?
a. People differ in their sensations and behaviors because of brain differences.
PP
b. The transmission of an action potential depends on movements of sodium and potassium.
c. The human brain is fundamentally different from that of all other species.
d. Scientists agree that they will never understand the brain fully.
ANSWER: a
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11. Which of these is NOT one of the types of explanation that biological psychologists use?
a. The intention behind the behavior
b. The brain mechanisms of the behavior
c. How the behavior developed
d. How the behavior evolved
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ANSWER: a
12. What does a “functional” explanation of a behavior state?
a. Why something evolved as it did
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b. How something develops during early life
c. What intention someone has when doing something
d. What brain chemistry produced an action
ANSWER: a
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13. Moths fly away from a bat call because it triggers a reflex that turns the body. What type of explanation is this?
a. Physiological
b. Ontogenetic
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