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WorksheetsAP Psychology Unit III - Biological Psych
Total questions: 68
Worksheet time: 34mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which part of the neuron receives messages from other cells?
a)
Axon
b)
Dendrite
c)
Soma
d)
Myelin
2.
When you run, jump and wave your hand, this voluntary nervous system kicks in?
a)
Motor neurons
b)
Spinal cord
c)
Somatic Nervous system
d)
Autonomic Nervous system
3.
Study how biology and behavior and mind affect each other, what is the definition word?
a)
Biopsychosocial
b)
Biological Psychologists
c)
Psychologist
d)
Biologist
4.
What is your “fight or flight” gland?
a)
Sympathetic division
b)
Adrenal gland
c)
Pituitary gland
d)
Parasympathetic division
5.
What is the order from top to bottom of the brainstem?
a)
Pons, medulla, midbrain
b)
Medulla, midbrain, pons
c)
Midbrain, pons, medulla
d)
Pons, midbrain, medulla
6.
What is the cells support center?
a)
Neurons
b)
Axons
c)
Axon terminals
d)
Cell body
7.
What is a common cause of multiple sclerosis?
a)
Myelin sheath degeneration
b)
Axon terminals
c)
Cell body
d)
Synapse gap
8.
When neither the researcher nor the participants know who is in each group is the definition of what word?
a)
Double-blind
b)
Blind procedure
c)
Placebo effect
d)
Control group
9.
What natural morphine does the body create that is considered a “runner’s high”
a)
Dopamine
b)
Serotonin
c)
Glutamate
d)
Endorphins
10.
Drugs that occupy(block) receptors but do not activate them are called?
a)
Antagonists
b)
Agonists
c)
Acetylcholine
d)
Gamma-aminobutyric acid
11.
Which type of neuron carries information from the CNS to the muscles and glands?
a)
Neurotransmitter
b)
Motor Neuron
c)
Sensory Neuron
d)
Interneurons
12.
Which action is NOT controlled by the somatic nervous system?
a)
Jumping
b)
Waving of hand
c)
Running
d)
Breathing
13.
Which of the following is NOT part of a neuron?
a)
Dendrite
b)
Axon
c)
Synapse
d)
Myelin Sheath
14.
Which of the following neurotransmitters enables muscle action, leaning, and memory?
a)
Serotonin
b)
Acetylcholine
c)
Dopamine
d)
Glutamate
15.
Which part of the brain is known as the "sorting station" ?
a)
Medulla
b)
Cerebellum
c)
Thalamus
d)
Hypothalamus
16.
A hemispherectomy is the severing of the _____
a)
Corpus Callosum
b)
Brain Stem
c)
Hippocampus
d)
Cerebellum
17.
Which of the following is NOT a main type of neuron?
a)
Interneuron
b)
Sensory neuron
c)
Motor neuron
d)
Sensual neuron
18.
What are the two main divisions of the nervous system?
a)
Autonomic and Somatic
b)
Peripheral and Central
c)
Sensory and Motor
d)
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic
19.
What is a visual display of brain activity that detects where a radioactive form of glucose goes while the brain performs a given task?
a)
CT
b)
MRI
c)
PET
d)
EEG
20.
In what order does an electrical impulse travel through a neuron?
a)
Nucleus, cell body, Dendrite, axon terminal, axon
b)
Synapse, Nucleus, Dendrite, Axon
c)
Dendrite, Cell Body, Axon, Axon Terminals
d)
Cell Body, Dendrite, Axon Terminals, Synapse
21.
What is the basic building block of the nervous system?
a)
Neurons
b)
Axon
c)
Dendrite
d)
Synapse
22.
What is the small gap/space between one neuron's axon terminal and another's dendrite?
a)
Myaline sheath
b)
Synapse
c)
Cell Body
d)
Receptor Site
23.
What is it called when a brief electrical charge travels down a neuron's axon?
a)
Resting Potential
b)
Depolarization
c)
Action Potential
d)
Repolarization
24.
What is the amount of stimuli that triggers action potential?
a)
Threshold
b)
Agonists
c)
Antagonist
d)
Reuptake
25.
What is the gap between the myaline sheath?
a)
Synapse
b)
Axon
c)
Nucleus
d)
Nodes of Ranvier
26.
What is the master gland of the brain?
a)
Hippocampus
b)
Thalamus
c)
Pituitary Gland
d)
Pons
27.
Rebecca got into a car accident and now has halting speech. What part of the brain did she injur?
a)
Wernicke's area
b)
Broca's area
c)
Hippocampus
d)
Thalamus
28.
What is the definition for Myelin sheath?
a)
Cell life support
b)
Passes information away from cell
c)
Fatty tissue that encases the axon
d)
Forms junction with other cells
29.
What is the process called when extra neurotransmitters are reabsorbed?
a)
Reuptake
b)
Excitatory
c)
Repolarization
d)
Action potential
30.
What are the two parts in the CNS?
a)
Brain and Spinal cord
b)
Somatic and automatic
c)
Motor and sensory
d)
Sympathetic and parasympathetic
31.
Which one is NOT a trait of the nervous system?
a)
Superfast
b)
Travels through blood stream
c)
Neurotransmitters
d)
Has two parts
32.
What connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain?
a)
Pons
b)
Thalamus
c)
Corpus Callosum
d)
Amygdala
33.
Where does the neurotransmitter go after it passes the cell body?
a)
Synapse
b)
Axon
c)
Terminals
d)
Dendrites
34.
Steven is a 5 year old boy who just had a hemispherectomy. Because of _______, his brain will create new learning pathways to regain normal function.
a)
Association areas
b)
Dual processing
c)
Lateralization
d)
Placticity
35.
Which neural communication accelarates the neural impulse through a neuraon?
a)
Excelarator
b)
Excitatory
c)
Inhibitory
d)
All-or-None response
36.
Which is the correct function of sensory neurons?
a)
Carry info to CNS from sensory
b)
Within brain and spinal cord and carry signals
c)
Carry info from CNS to muscles and glands
d)
Gathers info and transmits to other parts
37.
Which is the correct function of motor neurons?
a)
Within brain and spinal cord and carry signals
b)
Makes decisions
c)
Carry info from CNS to muscles and glands
d)
Carry info to CNS from sensory
38.
What is the neural process of the reuptake?
a)
The transmitting neuron retracts excess neurotransmitters that are no longer being used
b)
When neurotransmitters are no longer needed, so they dissolve into the surrounding membrane
c)
When the electracl impulse is stopped in one neuron
d)
The process of storing excess neurotranmitters, in the nueral cell
39.
Which gland of the nervous system is the master gland?
a)
Thyroid Gland
b)
Adrenal gland
c)
Pituitary Gland
d)
Pineal Gland
40.
Which organ of the brain controls balance, posture, and coordinates voluntary muscle movement?
a)
Cerebellum
b)
Thalamus
c)
amygdala
d)
frontal cortex
41.
What part of the brain controls the basic functions of life?
a)
midbrain
b)
hypothalamus
c)
brain stem
d)
basal ganglia
42.
Which organ of the brain processes the emotions of fear and anger?
a)
Thalamus
b)
pons
c)
medulla oblongata
d)
amygdala
43.
What is the function of the hippocampus with in the brain?
a)
The organization of emotional events
b)
To store long term memorie and regulate short term memories
c)
to regulate fear and anger
d)
the process of connecting the left and right hemispheres
44.
In a CT (computed tomography) scan, what signals are used to detect the structure of the brain?
a)
Magnetic Fields
b)
Electrodes placed on the skull
c)
the pass of X-rays through the brain
d)
detection of glucose
45.
What does the Amygdala do in the brain?
a)
Controls posture and balance of the body
b)
Controls fear and rage (emotions)
c)
Sorting station of the brain
d)
Controls language and comprehension in the brain
46.
What is the Biopsychosocial?
a)
Study of behavior with others human beings
b)
Study how these biological, psychological, and social systems work/interact
c)
Study of how our environment affects our behaviors
d)
Study of behavior
47.
What does a dendrite do?
a)
Receives messages and conducts impulses towards the cell body
b)
Lets the neurons travel to the synapse
c)
Forms junctions with other cells
d)
It’s the cell’s life support
48.
What is a threshold?
a)
A response that either fires all of it or doesn’t at all
b)
Maximum amount of stimulation that a response can have
c)
Level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse
d)
Minimum amount of stimulation that a response can have
49.
What is an agonist?
a)
Helps make the threshold larger so that there can be a greater response
b)
Makes a reaction go faster
c)
Block neurotransmitters from making a response
d)
They take place of a neural transmitter by binding to the receptors and producing a temporary high
50.
What is the job of the sensory neuron?
a)
Neurons that carry out going information from brain and spinal cord to muscles and glands
b)
Neurons that carry out going information from brain and spinal cord to muscles and glands
c)
Give the fight or flight response
d)
Gives the rest or digest response
51.
A space between the axon terminal of one neuron and the dendrite of another is called?
a)
myelin sheath
b)
synaptic gap
c)
neurotransmitters
d)
reuptake
52.
Which brain scan is used to see areas that are being activated while performing different task?
a)
EEG
b)
CT Scan
c)
MRI
d)
PET
53.
Which of the following guides neural connections, provides nutrients and insulating myelin, and mop up ions and nutrients?
a)
Glial Cells
b)
Frontal Lobes
c)
Parietal Lobes
d)
Occipital Lobes
54.
What enables muscle action, learning, and memory?
a)
Dopamine
b)
Ach
c)
Serotonin
d)
GABA
55.
To walk across the street, a person would rely most directly on his:
a)
Autonomic Nervous System
b)
Sympathetic Nervous System
c)
Parasympathetic Nervous System
d)
Somatic Nervous System
56.
what is a PET scan used for?
a)
to see which areas are being activated while performing different tasks
b)
study structure
c)
find injuries
d)
diagnose epilepsy
57.
where is the somatosensory cortex?
a)
frontal lobe
b)
occipital lobe
c)
parietal Lobes
d)
temporal lobe
58.
fMRI is used for
a)
finding tumors
b)
brain mapping
c)
diagnose epilepsy
d)
finding strokes
59.
what is the part of the brain we share with all other animals
a)
Cerebellum
b)
limbic system
c)
corpus Callosum
d)
brain stem
60.
what does the medulla not control?
a)
breathing
b)
heartrate
c)
emotions
d)
digestion
61.
What are the effects if the broca’s area is damaged?
a)
broken and repetitive speech
b)
lack of coordination
c)
hallucinations
d)
long and short term memory loss
62.
Why do they sometimes sever the corpus callosum?
a)
Seizures
b)
heart attacks
c)
Alziehmers
d)
Cerbral Palsy
63.
What type of brain scan measures the function and the structure of the brain?
a)
EEG
b)
EKG
c)
fMRI
d)
CT
64.
What are the human body’s natural “morphine” producers?
a)
Serotonin
b)
Glutamate
c)
Endorphins
d)
Acetylcholine (ACh)
65.
What is the cell's life support system?
a)
Axon
b)
Dendrites
c)
Axon terminal
d)
Soma
66.
Where is the reticular formation located?
a)
Thalamus
b)
Hypothalamus
c)
Amygdala
d)
Brainstem
67.
What is NOT a difference between the Nervous system and the Endocrine system?
a)
The Nervous system is fast while the Endocrine system is slow.
b)
The Nervous system sends out neurotransmitters and the Endocrine system sends out hormones.
c)
The Endocrine system travels in the bloodstream while the Nervous system travels across synapse from one neuron to another.
d)
The Nervous system transmits chemical messages throughout the body while the Endocrine system transmits hormonal messages throughout the body.
68.
What is the difference between the Somatic Nervous System and the Autonomic Nervous System?
a)
Somatic controls involuntary muscle movements while Autonomic controls voluntary movements.
b)
Somatic controls voluntary muscle movements while Autonomic controls involuntary movements.
c)
The Somatic can be further subdivided into the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system.
d)
Somatic controls breathing, heartbeat, and blinking while Autonomic controls running, jumping, and walking.
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