,Table of Content
CHAPTER 1. What Is Biopsychology?
PART I. Neural Foundations of Behavior: The Basic Equipment
CHAPTER 2. Communication Within the Nervous System
CHAPTER 3. The Organization and Functions of the Nervous System
CHAPTER 4. The Methods and Ethics of Research
PART II. Motivation and Emotion: What Makes Us Go
CHAPTER 5. Drugs, Addiction, and Reward
CHAPTER 6. Motivation and the Regulation of Internal States
CHAPTER 7. The Biology of Sex and Gender
CHAPTER 8. Emotion and Health
PART III. Interacting With the World
CHAPTER 9. Hearing and Language
CHAPTER 10. Vision and Visual Perception
CHAPTER 11. The Body Senses and Movement
PART IV. Complex Behavior
,CHAPTER 12. Learning and Memory
CHAPTER 13. Intelligence and Cognitive Functioning
CHAPTER 14. Psychological Disorders
CHAPTER 15. Sleep and Consciousness
, 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
2. If someone is interested in the relationships between behavior and the body, what area of
science do they work in?
a. Psychobiology
b. Biopsychology
c. Physiological psychology
d. All of these areas are correct. (*)
3. Neuroscience is the multidisciplinary study of the and its role in behavior:
a. Brain
b. Nervous system (*)
c. Mind
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:
a. Overt acts
b. Learning
c. Emotions
d. All of the above (*)
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?
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
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 (*)
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CHAPTER 1. What Is Biopsychology?
PART I. Neural Foundations of Behavior: The Basic Equipment
CHAPTER 2. Communication Within the Nervous System
CHAPTER 3. The Organization and Functions of the Nervous System
CHAPTER 4. The Methods and Ethics of Research
PART II. Motivation and Emotion: What Makes Us Go
CHAPTER 5. Drugs, Addiction, and Reward
CHAPTER 6. Motivation and the Regulation of Internal States
CHAPTER 7. The Biology of Sex and Gender
CHAPTER 8. Emotion and Health
PART III. Interacting With the World
CHAPTER 9. Hearing and Language
CHAPTER 10. Vision and Visual Perception
CHAPTER 11. The Body Senses and Movement
PART IV. Complex Behavior
,CHAPTER 12. Learning and Memory
CHAPTER 13. Intelligence and Cognitive Functioning
CHAPTER 14. Psychological Disorders
CHAPTER 15. Sleep and Consciousness
, 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
2. If someone is interested in the relationships between behavior and the body, what area of
science do they work in?
a. Psychobiology
b. Biopsychology
c. Physiological psychology
d. All of these areas are correct. (*)
3. Neuroscience is the multidisciplinary study of the and its role in behavior:
a. Brain
b. Nervous system (*)
c. Mind
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:
a. Overt acts
b. Learning
c. Emotions
d. All of the above (*)
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?
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
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 (*)
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