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WorksheetsBiopsychology part 2
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
At it's peak (aged 2-3) the brain has roughly how many synaptic connections?
5000
10000
15000
20000
Who did Maguire study to demonstrate brain plasticity?
Scuba divers
Taxi drivers
Monks
Teenage gamers
Which of these is a step in functional recovery of the brain?
Reformation of blood vessels
A postmortem
Axonal pruning
Activation of the sympathetic nervous system
There can be negative side effects of plasticity, for example, feeling sensations of a limb that is no longer there. This is known as...
Ghost limb syndrome
Fake limb syndrome
Phantom limb syndrome
Shadow limb syndrome
Evidence suggests that a person's what may influence how well the brain adapts after injury?
Blood type
Fitness
Hydration
Education
Split brain patients had undergone surgery, a commissurotomy involves cutting what part of the brain?
The cerebellum
The corpus collosum
The cortex
The cerebral cortex
Which of these was not carried out out split brain patients?
Composite words
Describe what you see
Match items with pictures
Recognition by touch
Sperry has been criticised for having a small sample size, how many participants did he have?
8
11
3
17
In drawing tasks with split brain patients, which hand was dominant and therefore better at drawing?
Right hand
Left hand
Right hand for those who were right handed
Left hand for those who were left handed
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?
Ball
It's something round
I don't know
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?
I don't know
Telephone
Nothing
If a split brain patient had a book placed in their right hand, what would they say they were holding?
Book
Something heavy
Don't know
Sperry used a control group, who were they?
Other split brain patients
A group of people with epilepsy
A group of people without epilepsy
A group of people with dementia
What does fMRI stand for?
Functional magnesium resonance imaging
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Functional magnetic restorative imaging
Functional magnetic resonance initiatives
Which brain scanning technique tracks general brain wave activity?
fMRI
ERP
Post-mortem
EEG
Which scanning technique is virtually risk free, non invasive and straightforward?
EEG
fMRI
ERP
Post-mortem
Causation is an issue within brain scanning, but within which technique is this the biggest problem?
fMRI
Post-Mortem
ERP
EEG
Which brain scanning techniques have high temporal resolution?
EEG
Post-mortem
ERP
fMRI
Which biological rhythm is subject to a 24 hour cycle?
Infradian
Exogenous
Circadian
Ultradian
Which of these is an example of a circadian rhythm?
Menstrual cycle
Core body temperature cycle
SAD
Sleep stages
The body's internal biological 'clocks' are known as what?
Ultradian pacemakers
Exogenous zeitgebers
Endogenous zeitgebers
Endogenous pacemakers
In Aschoff and Wever's study, they found one participant in the bunker had a sleep/wake cycle of how long?
20 hours
23 hours
26 hours
29 hours
Folkard carried out a study where the clocks were changed to make the 12 participants live to a day that was how long?
20 hours
22 hours
25 hours
26 hours
Siffre's study was criticised for having poor control, what was this in reference to?
Having machines to record heart rate and blood pressure
The use of artificial light
The use of books
Having food and drink for meal times
Which biological rhythm has a frequency of more than one cycle in a 24 hour period?
Ultradian
Infradian
Circadian
Exogenous Zeitgeber
The menstrual cycle is an example of a what?
Circadian rhythm
Infradian rhythm
Exogenous zeitgeber
Ultradian rhythm
McClintock collected samples of what from women?
Serotonin
Hair
Pheromones
Saliva
McClintock found what percentage of women found their periods were brought closer together following the study?
62%
68%
71%
74%
The sleep stages are an example of what?
Endogenous pacemaker
Circadian rhythm
Infradian rhythm
Ultradian rhythm
SAD is also referred to as what?
Baby blues
A downer
Winter blues
Seasonal blues
Which hormone is implicated in the cause of SAD?
Melatonin
Cortisol
Thyroxine
Glucagon
Dreams are thought to most likely occur in which stage of sleep?
1
3
4
5
Roughly how long does a cycle of sleep last?
1 hour
30 minutes
2 hours
90 minutes
Stages 3 and 4 of sleep involve which waves?
Fast
Alpha
Theta
Delta
What does REM stand for?
Rapid eye motion
Remote eye movement
Rolling eye motion
Rapid eye movement
The SCN is located in the what?
Motor cortex
Hippocampus
Hypothalamus
Optic chiasm
DeCoursey destroyed the SCN in 30 what?
Chipmunks
Rats
Hamsters
Squirrels
Which of the following is an example of an endogenous pacemaker
Circadian rhythm
Social cues
Pineal gland
Alarm clock
At roughly what time is core body temperature at it's lowest?
7pm
1am
11pm
4am
At roughly what time are we most alert?
10am
12pm
1pm
2pm
At what time are we in our deepest sleep?
1am
2am
4am
5am
Which of the following influences melatonin production the most?
Food
Weather
Mood
Light
What should you do to avoid/reduce jet lag?
Sleep as soon as you land in a country
Eat 5 hours after landing
Eat at the meal times in the landing country
Stay up 12 hours after landing
Campbell and Murphy's participants had light shone where?
On the back of their neck
On the back of their knees
On the back of their hands
On the bottom of their feet
Which of the following techniques uses a statistical averaging technique to remove extraneous data?
fMRI
EEG
Post-mortem
ERP
