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NDD event 24 nov

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When is brain developing most rapidly?

a)

old age

b)

early childhood

c)

middle adulthood

d)

adolescence

2.

Who is considered the "Father of Genetics"

a)

Mark Summers

b)

Rhet Stewart

c)

Gregor Mendel

d)

Albert Einstein 

3.

Is the statement "Cognitive development has to do with thinking and processing information" true or false?

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Which of the following traits is usually associated with creativity?

a)

convergent thinking 

b)

divergent thinking 

c)

intelligence 

d)

modelling 

5.

What is considered the "Study of Heredity"

a)

Biology

b)

Geology

c)

Genetics

d)

Cellology

6.
The term "cognition" includes
a)
thinking, problem solving, reasoning, and dreaming.
b)
classical and instrumental conditioning.
c)
the use of memory systems.
d)
an active process by which sensory input is selected, organized, and integrated.
7.
A relatively permanent type of memory that stores a huge amount of information for a long time is known as your
a)
Personal memory
b)
Sensory memory
c)
Long-term memory
d)
Short-term memory
8.

Memory in which behavior is affected by prior experience without a recollection of that experience is known as

a)

Short-term memory

b)

Explicit memory

c)

Sensory memory

d)

Implicit memory

9.

"Pattern of sleeping in a 24-hour period" is the definition of which term?

a)

Sleep-Wake Cycle

b)

Blue Light

c)

Sleep Deficit

d)

Sleep Deprived

10.

What is the term used to refer to sleep disorders that occur when people are partially, but not completely, awoken from sleep?

a)

Insomnia

b)

Parasomnia

c)

Narcolepsy

d)

Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS)

11.

Which disorder that affects the brain’s ability to control the sleep-wake cycle?

a)

Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS)

b)

Parasomnia

c)

Insomnia

d)

Narcolepsy

12.

Which disorder is associated with trouble falling or staying asleep?

a)

Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS)

b)

Sleep Apnea

c)

Parasomnia

d)

Insomnia

13.

Which of the following statements is true referring to REM sleep?

a)

virtually no electrical activity in skeletal muscles can be detected.

b)

large amounts of electrical activity in skeletal muscles can be detected.

c)

virtually no electrical activity in the eye muscles can be detected.

d)

large amounts of movement are caused when dreaming, including sleep walking.

14.

Sleep deprivation studies show that changes to an individual’s ability to function in normal waking consciousness start to become noticeable after about __________ days without sleep, and usually involve performance deficits on ________ tasks.

a)

three; challenging

b)

seven; routine

c)

seven; challenging

d)

three; routine

17.

What does ADHD stand for?

a)

Attention Disorder/Hyperactivity Disorder

b)

Attention Deficit Disorder

c)

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

d)

Amazing, Delightful, Happy, Dreamer

18.

What are the components of ADHD?

a)

Attention and Hyperactivity

b)

Inattention, Impulsivity and Hyperactivity

c)

Concentration, Memory and Academic Performance

d)

Memory and Concentration

19.

What is the microbiome?

a)

All of the microorganisms that live in a particular environment

b)

to small to be seen

c)

a nanometer

d)

the width of a DNA strand

20.

Approximately how many microorganisms are on us or in us?

a)

more than 250 trillion

b)

Nobody knows for sure

21.

Who produces 90% of the serotonin in our body?

a)

Gut bacteria

b)

Viruses

c)

Neurons in our CNS

d)

Glia cells

22.

Which of the following traits is the most heritable, as estimated from genome-wide association studies (GWAS)?

a)

Autism spectrum disorder

b)

Morning plasma cortisol concentration

c)

Drinking full fat milk

d)

Sleepiness

23.

One of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders is intellectual disability. How frequent is the clinician able to make a clinical diagnosis in a child with intellectual disability using the current available diagnostic tools?

a)

Less than 25%

b)

25 to 50%

c)

50 to 75%

d)

More than 75%

24.

Which of the following traits is the least heritable, as estimated from genome-wide association studies (GWAS)?

a)

Autism spectrum disorder

b)

Morning plasma cortisol concentration

c)

Drinking full fat milk

25.

In scotland, all 11 year old children did a cognitive test battery at age 10. 79 years later, at age 90, a large group of them did the same exact cognitive test. How strongly was their performance correlated across this interval?

a)

r=0

b)

r=0.2

c)

r=0.4

d)

r=0.6

26.

Your brain volume is largest at age:

a)

6-7 years

b)

16-18 years

c)

25-30 years

27.

If you laid the axons in a cubic mm3 of white matter tissue end to end, it would be approximately:

a)

500 meters

b)

3 kilometers

c)

30 kilometers

28.

The fruit fly's genome encodes how much of human disease-associated genes?

a)

35%

b)

50%

c)

75%

d)

90%

29.

In Kleefstra syndrome, who functions on a higher level?

a)

Girls

b)

Boys

30.

Is this statement true?

"People with ADHD are more likely to be high on divergent thinking than people without ADHD."

a)

Correct

b)

Incorrect

31.

A human being does have ~20.000 genes. An average Christmas tree does have:

a)

Less genes: ~5,000 to 10,000

b)

similar: 17,000 to 22,500

c)

More genes: 35,000 to 40,000

d)

Trees do not have genes