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Biopsychology part 2

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

At it's peak (aged 2-3) the brain has roughly how many synaptic connections?

a)

5000

b)

10000

c)

15000

d)

20000

2.

Who did Maguire study to demonstrate brain plasticity?

a)

Scuba divers

b)

Taxi drivers

c)

Monks

d)

Teenage gamers

3.

Which of these is a step in functional recovery of the brain?

a)

Reformation of blood vessels

b)

A postmortem

c)

Axonal pruning

d)

Activation of the sympathetic nervous system

4.

There can be negative side effects of plasticity, for example, feeling sensations of a limb that is no longer there. This is known as...

a)

Ghost limb syndrome

b)

Fake limb syndrome

c)

Phantom limb syndrome

d)

Shadow limb syndrome

5.

Evidence suggests that a person's what may influence how well the brain adapts after injury?

a)

Blood type

b)

Fitness

c)

Hydration

d)

Education

6.

Split brain patients had undergone surgery, a commissurotomy involves cutting what part of the brain?

a)

The cerebellum

b)

The corpus collosum

c)

The cortex

d)

The cerebral cortex

7.

Which of these was not carried out out split brain patients?

a)

Composite words

b)

Describe what you see

c)

Match items with pictures

d)

Recognition by touch

8.

Sperry has been criticised for having a small sample size, how many participants did he have?

a)

8

b)

11

c)

3

d)

17

9.

In drawing tasks with split brain patients, which hand was dominant and therefore better at drawing?

a)

Right hand

b)

Left hand

c)

Right hand for those who were right handed

d)

Left hand for those who were left handed

10.

If a split brain patient was looking at a screen and the word 'ball' flashed up on the left side, what would they say they saw?

a)

Ball

b)

It's something round

c)

I don't know

11.

If a split brain patient was shown a screen and the word 'telephone' flashes up on the right hand side, what would they say they saw?

a)

I don't know

b)

Telephone

c)

Nothing

12.

If a split brain patient had a book placed in their right hand, what would they say they were holding?

a)

Book

b)

Something heavy

c)

Don't know

13.

Sperry used a control group, who were they?

a)

Other split brain patients

b)

A group of people with epilepsy

c)

A group of people without epilepsy

d)

A group of people with dementia

14.

What does fMRI stand for?

a)

Functional magnesium resonance imaging

b)

Functional magnetic resonance imaging

c)

Functional magnetic restorative imaging

d)

Functional magnetic resonance initiatives

15.

Which brain scanning technique tracks general brain wave activity?

a)

fMRI

b)

ERP

c)

Post-mortem

d)

EEG

16.

Which scanning technique is virtually risk free, non invasive and straightforward?

a)

EEG

b)

fMRI

c)

ERP

d)

Post-mortem

17.

Causation is an issue within brain scanning, but within which technique is this the biggest problem?

a)

fMRI

b)

Post-Mortem

c)

ERP

d)

EEG

18.

Which brain scanning techniques have high temporal resolution?

a)

EEG

b)

Post-mortem

c)

ERP

d)

fMRI

19.

Which biological rhythm is subject to a 24 hour cycle?

a)

Infradian

b)

Exogenous

c)

Circadian

d)

Ultradian

20.

Which of these is an example of a circadian rhythm?

a)

Menstrual cycle

b)

Core body temperature cycle

c)

SAD

d)

Sleep stages

21.

The body's internal biological 'clocks' are known as what?

a)

Ultradian pacemakers

b)

Exogenous zeitgebers

c)

Endogenous zeitgebers

d)

Endogenous pacemakers

22.

In Aschoff and Wever's study, they found one participant in the bunker had a sleep/wake cycle of how long?

a)

20 hours

b)

23 hours

c)

26 hours

d)

29 hours

23.

Folkard carried out a study where the clocks were changed to make the 12 participants live to a day that was how long?

a)

20 hours

b)

22 hours

c)

25 hours

d)

26 hours

24.

Siffre's study was criticised for having poor control, what was this in reference to?

a)

Having machines to record heart rate and blood pressure

b)

The use of artificial light

c)

The use of books

d)

Having food and drink for meal times

25.

Which biological rhythm has a frequency of more than one cycle in a 24 hour period?

a)

Ultradian

b)

Infradian

c)

Circadian

d)

Exogenous Zeitgeber

26.

The menstrual cycle is an example of a what?

a)

Circadian rhythm

b)

Infradian rhythm

c)

Exogenous zeitgeber

d)

Ultradian rhythm

27.

McClintock collected samples of what from women?

a)

Serotonin

b)

Hair

c)

Pheromones

d)

Saliva

28.

McClintock found what percentage of women found their periods were brought closer together following the study?

a)

62%

b)

68%

c)

71%

d)

74%

29.

The sleep stages are an example of what?

a)

Endogenous pacemaker

b)

Circadian rhythm

c)

Infradian rhythm

d)

Ultradian rhythm

30.

SAD is also referred to as what?

a)

Baby blues

b)

A downer

c)

Winter blues

d)

Seasonal blues

31.

Which hormone is implicated in the cause of SAD?

a)

Melatonin

b)

Cortisol

c)

Thyroxine

d)

Glucagon

32.

Dreams are thought to most likely occur in which stage of sleep?

a)

1

b)

3

c)

4

d)

5

33.

Roughly how long does a cycle of sleep last?

a)

1 hour

b)

30 minutes

c)

2 hours

d)

90 minutes

34.

Stages 3 and 4 of sleep involve which waves?

a)

Fast

b)

Alpha

c)

Theta

d)

Delta

35.

What does REM stand for?

a)

Rapid eye motion

b)

Remote eye movement

c)

Rolling eye motion

d)

Rapid eye movement

36.

The SCN is located in the what?

a)

Motor cortex

b)

Hippocampus

c)

Hypothalamus

d)

Optic chiasm

37.

DeCoursey destroyed the SCN in 30 what?

a)

Chipmunks

b)

Rats

c)

Hamsters

d)

Squirrels

38.

Which of the following is an example of an endogenous pacemaker

a)

Circadian rhythm

b)

Social cues

c)

Pineal gland

d)

Alarm clock

39.

At roughly what time is core body temperature at it's lowest?

a)

7pm

b)

1am

c)

11pm

d)

4am

40.

At roughly what time are we most alert?

a)

10am

b)

12pm

c)

1pm

d)

2pm

41.

At what time are we in our deepest sleep?

a)

1am

b)

2am

c)

4am

d)

5am

42.

Which of the following influences melatonin production the most?

a)

Food

b)

Weather

c)

Mood

d)

Light

43.

What should you do to avoid/reduce jet lag?

a)

Sleep as soon as you land in a country

b)

Eat 5 hours after landing

c)

Eat at the meal times in the landing country

d)

Stay up 12 hours after landing

44.

Campbell and Murphy's participants had light shone where?

a)

On the back of their neck

b)

On the back of their knees

c)

On the back of their hands

d)

On the bottom of their feet

45.

Which of the following techniques uses a statistical averaging technique to remove extraneous data?

a)

fMRI

b)

EEG

c)

Post-mortem

d)

ERP