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Intro Psych Exam 1

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

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1.

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:​

a)

Reticular Formation

b)

Parasympathetic nervous system

c)

Sympathetic nervous system

d)

Amygdala

2.

During open-brain surgery, Adam's left ankle twitched whenever the surgeon electrically stimulated a specific area within Adam's

a)

Left frontal lobe

b)

Right frontal lobe

c)

Left parietal lobe

d)

Right parietal lobe

3.

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

a)

somatosensory cortex is responsible for phantom limb movements

b)

motor cortex on the right side of the brain controls movements of specific body parts on the right side of the body.

c)

association areas of the brain control movements of all body parts.

d)

motor cortex on the right side of the brain controls movements of specific body parts on the opposite side of the body. 

4.

 Phineas Gage underwent a dramatic personality change after a tamping iron inflicted massive damage to his ________ lobes.

a)

Frontal

b)

Temporal

c)

Parietal

d)

Occipital

5.

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)

a)

MEG

b)

Lesion

c)

EEG

d)

PET

6.

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:

a)

Dopamine

b)

Endorphins

c)

Acetylcholine

d)

Insulin

7.

The _____ receive messages from other neurons, while the ____ carry messages on to other neurons or to muscle or gland cells

a)

Cell bodies; dendrites

b)

Axons; dendrites

c)

Dendrites; axons

d)

Myelin sheath; cell bodies

8.

Random Sampling is to ____ as random assignment is to ____

a)

Correlational studies; case studies

b)

Replication; correlation 

c)

Surveys; experiments

d)

Description; prediction

9.

A factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect in an experiment is called a:

a)

Wording effect

b)

Placebo effect

c)

Correlation coefficient

d)

Confounding variable

10.

Cortical areas that are NOT primarily concerned with sensory, motor, or language functions are

a)

Association areas

b)

Projection areas

c)

Located mostly in the parietal lobe

d)

Located mostly in the temporal lobe

11.

Assessing how well one variable predicts another variable is to _________ as detecting cause-effect relationships between different variables is to _________.

a)

Correlational research; experimental research

b)

Naturalistic observation; case studies

c)

A control group; an experimental group

d)

Descriptive methods; correlational methods

12.

The brain devotes more tissue within the ________ for body areas requiring the most precise movement control such as the fingers.

a)

Hippocampus

b)

Motor cortex

c)

Occipital lobes

d)

Corpus callosum

13.

Compared with fraternal twins, identical twins are ___ similar in physical appearance. Compared with unrelated look-alike pairs of individuals, identical twins report ___ similar personalities.

a)

No more; more

b)

More; more

c)

More; no more

d)

No more; no more

14.

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?

a)

Pons

b)

Basal ganglia

c)

Amygdala

d)

Corpus callosum

15.

Macaque monkeys have been found to have personalities that resemble their biological mother, rather than their foster mother. This demonstrates that​

a)

Heredity shapes personality

b)

Environment shapes personality

c)

Nurture shapes personality

d)

Temperament lays the foundation for personality