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Understanding Our Brain and Behavior

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

People perceive objects or events that have no external reality in a/an

a)

Gestalt

 

b)

Perceptual construction

 

c)

Illusion

d)

Hallucination

2.

How is consciousness defined in the field of psychology?

a)

The awareness of one’s internal thoughts and external surroundings

b)

  A physical state of clear, organized alertness

c)

  A condition of awareness distinctly different in quality or pattern from waking consciousness

 

d)

The external study of observable behaviors

3.

What kind of nerves carry sensory and motor messages in and out of the column that transmits information between the brain and the peripheral nervous system?

a)

Spinal nerves

b)

  Peripheral nerves

 

c)

Marrow nerves

 

d)

Cranial nerves

4.

Which theory of dreaming, popularized by Freud, emphasizes internal conflicts, motives, and unconscious forces?

a)

Psychodynamic dream theory

b)

  Neurocognitive dream theory

c)

  Lucid dreaming

 

d)

Activation-synthesis theory

5.

Which one of the following is the name for a type of cell in the nervous system that transmits information?

a)

Axon

b)

Neuron

c)

  Dendrite

 

d)

Soma

6.

Which of the following involves obtaining additional information to check perceptions?

a)

Perceptual construction

b)

Reality testing

 

c)

Stereoscopic vision

 

d)

Figure–ground organization

7.

What is the structure in the hindbrain involved in controlling coordination and balance called?

a)

Cerebellum

b)

  Pons

c)

  Reticular formation

 

d)

Medulla

8.

Which of the following brain areas is responsible for movement, sense of self, and higher mental functions?

a)

Occipital lobes

b)

  Parietal lobes

 

c)

Temporal lobes

d)

Frontal lobes

9.

Which of the following refers to the parts of the nervous system outside of the brain and spinal cord?

a)

Peripheral nervous system

 

b)

Central nervous system

 

c)

Somatic nervous system

 

d)

Autonomic nervous system

10.

Psychophysics is the study of how the mind interprets the physical properties of _______.

a)

The subconscious

 

b)

Altered states

c)

Stimuli

 

d)

Transducer