Intro Psych Exam 1

Your brother has been taking prescription medicine and experiencing a number of unpleasant side effects including unusually rapid heartbeat and excessive perspiration. It is likely that the medicine is exaggerating activity in the:​

• Reticular Formation

• Parasympathetic nervous system

• Sympathetic nervous system

• Amygdala

During open-brain surgery, Adam's left ankle twitched whenever the surgeon electrically stimulated a specific area within Adam's

• Left frontal lobe

• Right frontal lobe

• Left parietal lobe

• Right parietal lobe

Margaret had a stroke that damaged the right side of her brain. Yet, she has difficulty moving her left arm, not her right arm. This indicates that the

• somatosensory cortex is responsible for phantom limb movements

• motor cortex on the right side of the brain controls movements of specific body parts on the right side of the body.

• association areas of the brain control movements of all body parts.

• motor cortex on the right side of the brain controls movements of specific body parts on the opposite side of the body. 

 Phineas Gage underwent a dramatic personality change after a tamping iron inflicted massive damage to his ________ lobes.

• Frontal

• Temporal

• Parietal

• Occipital

After suffering a head injury, Amanda was taken to a medical clinic where recording electrodes were placed directly on Amanda's scalp to monitor her brain waves. The clinic was making use of a(n)

• MEG

• Lesion

• EEG

• PET

After 3 hours of playing a physically exhausting professional tennis match, China began to experience a sense of physical exhilaration and pleasure. It is likely that her feelings were most directly linked to the release of:

• Dopamine

• Endorphins

• Acetylcholine

• Insulin

The _____ receive messages from other neurons, while the ____ carry messages on to other neurons or to muscle or gland cells

• Cell bodies; dendrites

• Axons; dendrites

• Dendrites; axons

• Myelin sheath; cell bodies

Random Sampling is to ____ as random assignment is to ____

• Correlational studies; case studies

• Replication; correlation 

• Surveys; experiments

• Description; prediction

A factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect in an experiment is called a:

• Wording effect

• Placebo effect

• Correlation coefficient

• Confounding variable

Cortical areas that are NOT primarily concerned with sensory, motor, or language functions are

• Association areas

• Projection areas

• Located mostly in the parietal lobe

• Located mostly in the temporal lobe