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Physiological Psychology

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A complete cessation of eating
  • Hyperphagia
  • Lipogenesis
  • Aphagia Correct
  • Adipsia
A disorder characterized by periods of not eating interrupted by bingeing
  • Obesity
  • Sickness
  • Anorexia nervosa
  • Bulimia nervosa Correct
A disorder of under consumption
  • Anorexia nervosa Correct
  • Dorsal-column medial-lemniscus
  • Neuroanatomy
  • Neurophysiology
A disorder of voluntary movement that is not attributable to a simple motor deficit to any deficit in comprehension or motivation
  • Premotor cortex
  • Contralateral neglect
  • Mirror neurons
  • Apraxia Correct
A disorders of excessive sleep or sleepiness
  • Hypersomnia Correct
  • HYPNAGOGIC HALLUCINATIONS
  • CATAPLEXY
  • SLEEP PARALYSIS
A gastrointestinal process of breaking down food and absorbing its constituents into the body
  • Eating
  • Digestion Correct
  • Health
  • Hunger
A layerof mucus-covered tissue
  • Olfactory bulbs
  • Olfactory mucosa Correct
  • Papillae
  • Taste Buds
A reflex that is elicited by a sudden external stretching force on a muscle
  • Stretch Reflex Correct
  • Babinski reflex
  • Withdrawal reflex
  • Spinal Reflex
A simple sugar that is the breakdown product of complex carbohydrates, that is, starches and sugars
  • Glucose Correct
  • Fats
  • Lipids
  • Amino Acids
A specific agnosia for visual stimuli
  • Akinetopsia
  • Prosopagnosia
  • Visual agnosia Correct
  • Visual agnosia
A study of the physiological bases of human and animal behavior
  • PhilosophicalApproach
  • Experiemental Approach
  • ClinicalApproach
  • Physiological Psychology Correct
Adeficiency in the ability to see movement progress in a normal smooth fashion
  • Prosop agnosia
  • AgnosiaProcess Theory
  • Akinetopsia Correct
  • Blind sight
All are effects of damage to the auditory system, except:
  • Nerve deafness
  • Conductive deafness
  • Blindness Correct
  • Deafness
All are methods used in physiological psychology, except:
  • ClinicalApproach
  • ExperimentalApproach
  • PhilosophicalApproach
  • Physiological Psychology Correct
All are psychophysiological measures of sleep
  • EEO Correct
  • EOG
  • EMG
  • EEG
All are true about eating except:
  • Most of us derive great pleasure from it
  • A behavior that is of interest to virtually everyone
  • For many of us, it becomes a source of serious personal and health problems
  • None of the choices Correct
Any area of cortex that receives input from morethan one sensory system
  • Secondary sensory cortex
  • Association cortex
  • Primary sensory cortex
  • Association cortex Correct
Aproperty of light that plays an important role in the perception of brightness
  • Color
  • Wavelength
  • Intensity Correct
  • Illumination
Aproperty of light that plays an important role in the perception of color
  • Wavelength Correct
  • Color
  • Intensity
  • Illumination
Away where atteention can be focused is the internal cognitive process called_____
  • Endogenous Attention Correct
  • External events
  • Internal Attention
  • Exogenous Attention
Bulemicseat so little that they experience health threatening weight loss; and despite the iremaciated appearance, they often perceive themselves as fat
  • True
  • False Correct
Cessation of menstruation
  • Gynecomastia
  • Hirsutism
  • Amenorrhea Correct
  • Testicular atrophy
Clinicalapproach is actually answering one of the basic questions in philosophy
  • True
  • False Correct
Comprises the areas of the sensory cortex that receive most of their input from the primary sensory cortex of that system or from other areas of the secondary sensory cortex of the samesystem
  • Association cortex
  • Unassocciated cortex
  • Primary sensory cortex
  • Secondary sensory cortex Correct
Currently the dominant approach being used to study the brain mechanisms of human emotion
  • Psychodynamic approach
  • Behavioral neuroscience
  • Humanistic neuroscience
  • Cognitive neuroscience Correct
Defined as waves of electromagnetic energy that is between 380 and 760 nanometers in length
  • Intensity
  • Shape
  • Light Correct
  • Color
Dreamlike experiences during wakefulness
  • Insomnia
  • Hypersomnia
  • Deafness
  • Hypnagogic hallucinations Correct
Drugs that increases sleep
  • Nootropics
  • Antihypnotic drugs
  • Hypnotic drugs Correct
  • Smart Drugs
Endocrine gland is also known as the sweat glands
  • True
  • False Correct
Endocrine gland releases their chemicals, which are calledhormones, directly into the circulatory system
  • True Correct
  • False
Failure of recognition thatis not attributable to a sensory deficit or to verbal or intellectualimpairment
  • Akinetopsia
  • Agnosia Correct
  • Prosop agnosia
  • Visual agnosia
He developed the theory of evolution
  • James
  • Lange
  • Cannon-Bard
  • Charles Darwin Correct
he scientific study of the nervous system
  • Neuropathology
  • Neuroendocrinology
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Neuroanatomy Correct
How many stages does sleep EEG has?
  • Five
  • Three
  • Four Correct
  • Six
Human is capable of making complex patterns of adjustment to the never endingchanges of his environment
  • True Correct
  • False
Hungeris the gastrointestinal process of breaking down food and absorbing its constituents into the body
  • True
  • False Correct
In this book, Darwin argued, largely on the basis of anecdotal evidence, that particular emotional responses, such as human facial expressions, tend to accompany the same emotional states in all members of a species
  • Survival of the fittest
  • The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals Correct
  • Comparative study of psychology
  • Origin of Species
It deals with how experience changes the brain
  • Learning Correct
  • Memory
  • Cerebellum
  • Amygdala
It deals with how these changes are stored and subsequently reactivated
  • Amygdala
  • Memory Correct
  • Cerebellum
  • Learning
It includes all disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep
  • Cataplexy
  • Insomnia Correct
  • Hypersomnia
  • Sleep paralysis
It is also known as the sweat glands
  • Gonads
  • Pituitary gland
  • Exocrine gland Correct
  • Endocrine gland
It is characterized by recurring losses of muscle tone during wakefulness, often triggered by an emotional experience
  • CATAPLEXY Correct
  • HYPERSOMNIA
  • SLEEP PARALYSIS
  • HYPNAGOGIC HALLUCINATIONS
It is thought to participate in the storage of memories of learned sensorimotor skills through its various neuro plastic mechanism
  • Prefrontal Cortex
  • Neuropsychology
  • Cerebellum Correct
  • Striatum
It is thought to play a special role in memory for the emotional significance of experiences
  • Amygdala Correct
  • Cerebellum
  • Prefrontal Cortex
  • Infero temporal Cortex
It is thought to store memories for consistent relationships between stimuli and responses the type of memories that develop incrementally over many trials
  • Infero temporal Cortex
  • Striatum Correct
  • Prefrontal Cortex
  • Cerebellum
It receives information from primary and secondary motor cortex, information about descending motor signals from brain stem motor nuclei, and feedback from motor responses via the somatosensory and vestibular systems
  • Basal Ganglia
  • Muscle spindles
  • Golgi tendon organs
  • Cerebellum Correct
It runs in a strip from the supplementary motor area to the lateral fissure
  • Posterior parietal association cortex
  • Dorsolateral prefrontal association cortex
  • Premotor cortex Correct
  • Supplementary motor area
Lipogenesis is the production of body fat
  • True Correct
  • False
Monitors information about theposition of the body that comes from receptors in the muscles, joints, andorgans of balance
  • Interoceptive system
  • Exteroceptive system
  • Visual system
  • Proprioceptive system Correct
Neurons that fire when an individual performs a particular goal-directed hand movement or when she or he observes the same goal-directed movement performed by another
  • Mirror neurons Correct
  • Central Neuron
  • Efferent Neuron
  • Afferent Neuron
On the tongue, these are often located around small protuberances functional brain imaging
  • Psych Olfactory bulbs
  • Taste Buds
  • Olfactory mucosa
  • Papillae Correct
Oneof the most obvious qualities of human visual experience
  • Color Correct
  • Wavelength
  • Illumination
  • Intensity
Proposes that being awake disrupts the homeostasis of the body in some way and sleep is required to restore it
  • Adaptation theories of sleep
  • Sleep Theory
  • Recuperation theories of sleep Correct
  • Agitation theory
Proposes that sleep is not a reaction to the disruptive effects of being awake but the result of an internal 24-hour timing mechanism that is, we humans are programmed to sleep at night regardless of what happens to us during the day
  • Sleep Theory
  • Recuperation theories of sleep
  • Adaptation theories of sleep Correct
  • Agitation theory
Provides generalinformation about conditions within the body
  • Visual system
  • Exteroceptive system
  • Interoceptive system Correct
  • Proprioceptivesystem
Response of the gustatory system to chemicals in solution in the oral cavity
  • Smell
  • Hear
  • Taste Correct
  • Touch
Senses external stimuli that are applied to the skin
  • Visual system
  • Exteroceptive system Correct
  • Proprioceptivesystem
  • Interoceptive system
Tends to carry information about pain andtemperature
  • Neurophysiology
  • Dorsal-columnmedial-lemniscus
  • Neuroanatomy
  • Anterolateral system Correct
Tendsto carry information about touch and proprioception
  • Dorsal-column medial-lemniscus Correct
  • Visual system
  • Exteroceptive system
  • Anterolateral system
The ability of such patients to respond to visual stimuli in their scotomas even though they have no conscious awareness of the stimuli
  • Visual agnosia
  • Blind sight Correct
  • Prosop agnosia
  • Agnosia
The area of sensory cortex that receives most of its input directly from the thalamic relay nuclei of thatsystem
  • Primary sensory cortex Correct
  • Association cortex
  • Unassocciated cortex
  • Secondary sensory cortex
The breakdown products of proteins
  • Fats
  • Glucose
  • Lipids
  • Amino Acids Correct
The first major event in the study of the biopsychology of emotion was the publication in
  • 1872 Correct
  • 1782
  • 1875
  • 1785
The first physiological theory of emotion was proposed independently by James and Lange in what year?
  • Freud and Erikson
  • Freud and Horney
  • Cannon and Bard
  • James and Lange Correct
The idea that the human brain and the mind are separate entities became even more widely accepted
  • Agnosia
  • Visual agnosia
  • Animism
  • Cartesian dualism Correct
The inability to move just as one is falling asleep or waking up
  • Hypersomnia
  • Insomnia
  • Hypnagogic hallucinations
  • Sleep paralysis Correct
The primary motor cortex is located in the pre central gyrus of what lobe of the brain
  • Parietal lobe
  • Parietal lobe
  • Frontal lobe Correct
  • Occipital lobe
The science of behavior or the scientific study of human behavior
  • Physiology
  • Psychology Correct
  • Synapse
  • Neuron
The scientific study of the nervous system
  • Clinical Approach
  • Experimental Approach
  • Neuroscience Correct
  • Philosophical Approach
The sex, male or female, that a person believes himself or herself to be
  • Sexual identity Correct
  • Homosexual
  • Heterosexual
  • Bisexual
The small inhibitory interneurons that mediate recurrent collateral inhibition
  • Spinal Reflex
  • Reciprocal innervation
  • Renshaw cells Correct
  • Withdrawal reflex
The smallest units of motor activity
  • Motor pool
  • Motor units Correct
  • Muscle spindles
  • Renshaw cells
The somatotopic layout of the human primary motor cortex is commonly referred to as
  • Motor units
  • Mirror neurons
  • Acetylcholine
  • motor homunculus Correct
The study of body processes
  • Synapse
  • Neuron
  • Psychology
  • Physiology Correct
The study of nervous system disorders
  • Neuro pathology Correct
  • Neuroanatomy
  • Neurophysiology
  • Neuro endocrinology
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