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WorksheetsIntro Psych Exam 1
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 5mins
Your brother has been taking prescription medicine and experiencing a number of unpleasant side effects including unusually rapid heartbeat and excessive perspiration. It is likely that the medicine is exaggerating activity in the:
Reticular Formation
Parasympathetic nervous system
Sympathetic nervous system
Amygdala
During open-brain surgery, Adam's left ankle twitched whenever the surgeon electrically stimulated a specific area within Adam's
Left frontal lobe
Right frontal lobe
Left parietal lobe
Right parietal lobe
Margaret had a stroke that damaged the right side of her brain. Yet, she has difficulty moving her left arm, not her right arm. This indicates that the
somatosensory cortex is responsible for phantom limb movements
motor cortex on the right side of the brain controls movements of specific body parts on the right side of the body.
association areas of the brain control movements of all body parts.
motor cortex on the right side of the brain controls movements of specific body parts on the opposite side of the body.
Phineas Gage underwent a dramatic personality change after a tamping iron inflicted massive damage to his ________ lobes.
Frontal
Temporal
Parietal
Occipital
After suffering a head injury, Amanda was taken to a medical clinic where recording electrodes were placed directly on Amanda's scalp to monitor her brain waves. The clinic was making use of a(n)
MEG
Lesion
EEG
PET
After 3 hours of playing a physically exhausting professional tennis match, China began to experience a sense of physical exhilaration and pleasure. It is likely that her feelings were most directly linked to the release of:
Dopamine
Endorphins
Acetylcholine
Insulin
The _____ receive messages from other neurons, while the ____ carry messages on to other neurons or to muscle or gland cells
Cell bodies; dendrites
Axons; dendrites
Dendrites; axons
Myelin sheath; cell bodies
Random Sampling is to ____ as random assignment is to ____
Correlational studies; case studies
Replication; correlation
Surveys; experiments
Description; prediction
A factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect in an experiment is called a:
Wording effect
Placebo effect
Correlation coefficient
Confounding variable
Cortical areas that are NOT primarily concerned with sensory, motor, or language functions are
Association areas
Projection areas
Located mostly in the parietal lobe
Located mostly in the temporal lobe
Assessing how well one variable predicts another variable is to _________ as detecting cause-effect relationships between different variables is to _________.
Correlational research; experimental research
Naturalistic observation; case studies
A control group; an experimental group
Descriptive methods; correlational methods
The brain devotes more tissue within the ________ for body areas requiring the most precise movement control such as the fingers.
Hippocampus
Motor cortex
Occipital lobes
Corpus callosum
Compared with fraternal twins, identical twins are ___ similar in physical appearance. Compared with unrelated look-alike pairs of individuals, identical twins report ___ similar personalities.
No more; more
More; more
More; no more
No more; no more
A young woman was referred to a neurosurgeon after his frequent bouts of aggression could not be controlled. Diagnostic tests found an inoperable tumor in which location?
Pons
Basal ganglia
Amygdala
Corpus callosum
Macaque monkeys have been found to have personalities that resemble their biological mother, rather than their foster mother. This demonstrates that
Heredity shapes personality
Environment shapes personality
Nurture shapes personality
Temperament lays the foundation for personality
