Question 1

What do Hubel,Sperry,Axelrod,Moniz,Pavlov,and Golgi have in common? They are all

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A)   biopsychologists.
B)   neuroanatomists.
C)   neuropsychologists.
D)   psychologists.
E)   Nobel Prize winners. E

Question 2

The advantage of humans over other primates as subjects in biopsychological research is that they

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A)   are often cheaper.
B)   can report their subjective experiences.
C)   can follow verbal directions.
D)   all of the above
E)   none of the above D

Question 3

Jimmie G.,the man frozen in time,had a severe problem with his

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A)   memory.
B)   temperature regulation.
C)   IQ.
D)   attention.
E)   ability to tell time. A

Question 4

Some comparative psychologists study behavior in the laboratory,whereas others conduct

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A)   ethological research.
B)   case studies.
C)   experiments.
D)   applied research.
E)   converging operations.

Question 5

The division of biopsychology that makes the greatest use of functional brain imaging is __________.

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Question 6

The main difference between human brains and the brains of their mammalian relatives is that human brains tend to be bigger and

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A)   whiter.
B)   all gray.
C)   have more cortex.
D)   have two hemispheres.
E)   both C and D

Question 7

In some studies,subjects are not assigned to particular conditions; instead subjects are selected because they are already living under these conditions (e.g.,alcohol consumers and alcohol nonconsumers).Such studies are

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A)   quasiexperiments.
B)   case studies.
C)   true experiments.
D)   randomized experiments.
E)   unethical.

Question 8

Many individuals with schizophrenia have

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A)   regular EEG waves.
B)   irregular heartbeats.
C)   difficulty in the smooth visual tracking of regularly moving objects.
D)   both A and B
E)   none of the above

Question 9

Scientific progress is most likely when different approaches are focused on a single problem,particularly when the strengths of one approach compensate for the weaknesses of the others.This is called

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A)   converging operations.
B)   comparative analysis.
C)   critical thinking.
D)   scientific inference.
E)   functional imaging.

Question 10

Which subdiscipline of biopsychology is identified with the measurement of scalp EEG activity and ANS activity in humans?

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A)   psychophysiology
B)   experimental psychology
C)   physiological psychology
D)   neuropsychology
E)   psychopharmacology

Question 11

There is more to biopsychology than the study of the neural mechanisms of behavior.The division of biopsychology that best illustrates this point is __________.

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Question 12

In a well-designed experiment,there is only one systematic difference between the conditions.This difference is manipulated by the experimenter and is called the

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A)   between-subject variable.
B)   within-subject variable.
C)   dependent variable.
D)   independent variable.
E)   confounded variable.

Question 13

A volunteer with curarized eye muscles,who viewed a stationary target,saw the target move

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A)   in the direction opposite to the direction in which his eyes drifted.
B)   in the direction opposite to the direction in which he attempted to move his eyes.
C)   in the same direction as he attempted to move his eyes.
D)   rapidly back and forth.
E)   rapidly up and down.

Question 14

The term "within-subjects design" refers to experiments in which

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A)   each subject is exposed to each condition of the experiment.
B)   a different group of subjects is tested in each condition of the experiment.
C)   some groups of subjects receive drug injections.
D)   invasive procedures are used, that is, those in which the internal physiology of the subjects is manipulated.
E)   either C or D

Question 15

__________ won a Nobel Prize for the development of the prefrontal lobotomy as a treatment for mental illness.

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Question 16

The Coolidge effect refers to the fact that

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A)   rats often gorzalka after sex.
B)   a sexually-fatigued animal will often resume sexual activity if its current partner is replaced with a new one.
C)   the members of some species do not become sexually fatigued.
D)   male animals tend to become sexually fatigued.
E)   prolonged copulation is more difficult for males.

Question 17

The largest neural pathway that connects the left and right halves of the brain is called the __________.

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Question 18

The primary symptom of Korsakoff's syndrome is

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A)   severe memory loss.
B)   epilepsy.
C)   insomnia.
D)   dehydration.
E)   obesity.

Question 19

The visual system bases its perception of motion on a comparison between movement of the image on the

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A)   retina and the neural commands sent from the brain to the eye muscles.
B)   cornea and its movement on the retina.
C)   retina and contractions of the eye muscles.
D)   retina and movement of the eyes.
E)   two retinas.

Question 20

Korsakoff's syndrome is often associated with a __________ deficiency.

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Exam 1: Biopsychology As a Neuroscience