Bio Review - Part 1

Which of the following is NOT an example of a physiological factor?

• Hormones

• Brain Damage

• Genetic Inheritance

• Stress in the workplace

Which of the following statements is NOT true about the biological approach?

• Behaviors can be passed down from generation to generation via genetics.

• Animals can be used to understand human behavior.

• Often behaviors can be described by a single biological factor.

• It believes that our behavior is the result of the interaction of biological and environmental factors.

Which of the following is NOT a reason for carrying out research on animals?

• Research can be carried out on animals that would be ethically problematic with humans

• Many animals - such as chimpanzees and mice - have a similar genetic makeup to humans

• Animals and humans have similar physiology - that is, brains, nervous systems, and endocrine systems.

• Researchers are not bound to ethical considerations like they are in human research.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a case study?

• They are often holistic, not focusing only on a single variable.

• They are often longitudinal

• They can be replicated in order to establish reliability

• They often use method triangulation to increase credibility

Which of the following is an example of localization of function?

• The hippocampus transfers information from short-term memory to long-term memory

• Two parts of the brain work together in solving a problem.

• The brain changes as a result of interacting with the environment

• The right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and vice versa.

Which lobe is responsible for processing visual information?

• Frontal Lobe

• Temporal Lobe

• Parietal Lobe

• Occipital Lobe

Which of the following might be a symptom of damage to the frontal lobe?

• Inability to predict an outcome or solve a problem

• Blurred vision

• Paralysis to the left side of the body

• Seizures

If there was damage to the amygdala, which symptom might we observe?

• Difficulty recognizing faces

• Addictive behavior

• Inability to form emotional memories

• Inability to solve a problem

Which part of the neuron is most affected by learning?

• Neurons are not affected by learning

• The neurotransmitters

• The dendrites

• The nucleus

Which of the following is not true of Rosenzweig, Bennett & Diamond's (1972) study? (study with rats & deprivation)

• It is difficult to generalize the findings to humans

• The experiment was able to control for extraneous (confounding) variables.

• There are ethical concerns regarding the treatment of the animals in the study.

• There was evidence of neuroplasticity in the rats - the frontal lobes were denser as a result of dendritic branching in the enriched environmental condition.