Psychology Unit #2 Test: Biology of the Brain

Write your name

Rule #1: Correlation does not prove________________

• Causation
• Psychology
• Attribution
• Fact
• Reason

Rule #2; Everything that is psychological is _______________

• Biological
• Causation
• Anatomical
• Fact
• Correlation

Humans are Biopsychosocial systems in which biological, psychological and Social Cultural factors interact to influence __________________

• Behavior
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Thought
• Consciousness

Who said that "The mind is located in the spherical head?"

• Aristotle
• Gall
• Socrates
• Galileo
• Plato

Who said that "The mind is in the heart?"

• Aristotle
• Gall
• Socrates
• Galileo
• Plato

Who created Phrenology and said that it reveals mental abilities and character traits?"

• Aristotle
• Gall
• Socrates
• Galileo
• Plato

________ was a 19th-century pseudoscience that claimed personality traits and character could be determined by examining the contours and "bumps" on the skull, based on the false idea that the skull's surface reflected the development of specific brain regions

• Phrenology
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Biology
• Parapsychology

According to biopsychology the adaptive brain is wired by ____________

• Experiences
• Chemistry
• Psychology
• Impulses
• Beliefs

____________ the brain's lifelong ability to change, adapt, and reorganize itself by forming new neural connections and strengthening or weakening existing ones in response to experience, learning, or injury.

• Neuroplasticity
• Neurgenisis
• Neurogenics
• Psychogenisis
• Psychosomatic