Question: When a fetus is exposed to lower levels of ________, it is more likely to be attracted to men as an adult (regardless of gender).

Answer Choices:
Dopamine
Norepinephrine
Androgens
Acetylcholine

Answer: Androgens

Question: The __________ theory of addiction suggests that addicts continue to use a drug as a means of preventing the onset of withdrawals.

Answer Choices:
Accumbens-redirect
Incentive-sensitization
Physical-dependence
Positive-incentive

Answer: Physical-dependence

Question: Which of the following is a drug that works by increasing central nervous system activity?

Answer Choices:
Stimulants
Neuroleptics
Vitamin C
Depressants

Answer: Stimulants

Question: Which of the following is NOT a potential medical application of marijuana?

Answer Choices:
Pain management
Epilepsy
Schizophrenia
Glaucoma

Answer: Schizophrenia

Question: The fraternal birth order effect suggests that a man with several older brothers will be more likely to develop a homosexual orientation due to __________.

Answer Choices:
Socioeconomic influences in the household
The mother’s increased immune response to androgens
Increases in empathetic modeling
The strength of the id relative to the superego

Answer: The mother’s increased immune response to androgens

Question: Explicit memories for the particular events or experiences of one’s life are __________ memories.

Answer Choices:
Semantic
Procedural
Episodic
Implicit

Answer: Episodic

Question: All hormones influencing sexual behavior are:

Answer Choices:
Peptides
Lipids
Nucleic acids
Steroids

Answer: Steroids

Question: The tics of Tourette syndrome seem to be associated with activity in the __________.

Answer Choices:
Amygdala
Tegmentum
Caudate nuclei
Thalamus

Answer: Caudate nuclei

Question: Which of the following are found in the entorhinal cortex and act like a set of coordinates, allowing you to navigate your immediate environment?

Answer Choices:
Grid cells
Bimodal cells
Glial cells
Place cells

Answer: Grid cells

Question: Which of the following structures plays a role in identification of potential mating partners based on sensory signals?

Answer Choices:
Amygdala
Hypothalamus
Ventral striatum
Cortex

Answer: Ventral striatum

Question: According to the Wernicke-Geschwind model, which structure is responsible for the comprehension and production of visual language (e.g., reading and writing)?

Answer Choices:
Wernicke’s area
Angular gyrus
Arcuate fasciculus
The amygdala

Answer: Angular gyrus

Question: Which of the following is a primary focus when treating patients with Tourette syndrome?

Answer Choices:
The deactivation of cytokines through the use of oxidase inhibitors
Processing of emotional and social trauma experienced by the patient
Prevention of auditory hallucinations in unfamiliar situations
Establishing a sedative regimen to reduce periodic violent outbursts

Answer: Processing of emotional and social trauma experienced by the patient

Question: The interaction-dominant model of cognition highlights the role of __________ in brain function.

Answer Choices:
The amygdala and prefrontal cortex
Sodium and calcium ions
Interactions between individual neurons
Individual neurons

Answer: Interactions between individual neurons

Question: This exam is a test of __________ memory.

Answer Choices:
Episodic
Implicit
Haptic
Explicit

Answer: Explicit

Question: Split-brain studies are carried out on patients who have had __________.

Answer Choices:
Their corpus callosum severed
Significant damage done to their amygdala
Extensive treatment with SSRIs
A history of manic episodes

Answer: Their corpus callosum severed

Question: Jennifer Aniston cells appear to respond to:

Answer Choices:
Basic shapes and edges
Higher order concepts like identity and categories
The orientation of the body in three dimensional space
Somatosensory stimulation

Answer: Higher order concepts like identity and categories

Question: Destruction of the primary auditory cortex prevents fear conditioning in response to __________.

Answer Choices:
complex tones, complex sounds AND simple sounds
complex tones, complex sounds AND simple tones
simple sounds
simple tones

Answer: complex tones, complex sounds AND simple tones

Question: According to Darwin, early displays of emotion may have evolved as a means of __________.

Answer Choices:
avoiding physical conflict
procuring additional resources
bonding members of a group
selecting a mate

Answer: avoiding physical conflict

Question: The injury sustained by Phineas Gage illustrated the role of the __________ in personality formation and emotional regulation.

Answer Choices:
lateral temporal lobe
medial prefrontal lobe
medial temporal lobe
lateral prefrontal lobe

Answer: medial prefrontal lobe