Question: Consider a heroin addict… If they were to travel to a new environment… their tolerance would be _____________ than it was in their living room.
Answer Choices:
Not enough information given
The same
Lower
Higher
Answer: Lower
Question: The hippocampus appears to play a large role in memory for ___________.
Answer Choices:
Faces
Words
Spatial location
Emotional significance
Answer: Spatial location
Question: The ________________ theory of addiction suggests that an addict’s enjoyment of a drug’s effects decreases with continued use…
Answer Choices:
Accumbens-redirect
Physical-dependence
Positive-incentive
Incentive-sensitization
Answer: Incentive-sensitization
Question: There is a lack of __________ evidence available to researchers investigating Tourette syndrome because the condition usually gets better with age.
Answer Choices:
Anecdotal
Autopsy
Empirical
fMRI
Answer: Autopsy
Question: Research has shown that individuals experiencing stress are:
Answer Choices:
More likely to contract a common cold
Less likely to identify as “workaholics”
More likely to report higher incomes
Less likely to contract a common cold
Answer: More likely to contract a common cold
Question: A participant in a split-brain experiment is shown two images simultaneously… The researcher then asks the participant to draw what he saw using his left hand. What is he most likely to draw?
Answer Choices:
A square
Nothing
A square and a circle
A circle
Answer: A square
Question: The memory loss experienced in the events leading up to a concussion is likely the result of _______________.
Answer Choices:
An interruption in the consolidation process
Glial mediation
Inhibition of exogenous neural spikes
Cell death in the thalamic relay
Answer: An interruption in the consolidation process
Question: A patient you are caring for appears to be incapable of forming new memories… This suggests the patient may be capable of forming new ____________ memories.
Answer Choices:
Explicit
Episodic
Implicit
Somatosensory
Answer: Implicit
Question: Long-term potentiation results in ______________
Answer Choices:
Destruction of the pre- and postsynaptic neurons
An increase in sodium chloride production in the axon terminal
Reduced myelination in the motor cortex
An increase in neurotransmitters released by the presynaptic neuron
Answer: An increase in neurotransmitters released by the presynaptic neuron
Question: A response to stressors that leads to a reduction in performance is known as:
Answer Choices:
Aromatization
Nullification
Eustress
Distress
Answer: Distress
Question: According to the James-Lange theory, emotional experience is the result of our interpretation of ______________.
Answer Choices:
Increased serotonergic activity in the voltaic nucleus
Modified gene expression governed by metabotropic second messengers
Internalized cultural norms and expectations
Physiological changes induced by an emotionally-charged stimulus
Answer: Physiological changes induced by an emotionally-charged stimulus
Question: Patients who undergo posttraumatic amnesia typically experience _____________.
Answer Choices:
Little to no memory loss
Anterograde and retrograde memory loss
Retrograde memory loss
Anterograde memory loss
Answer: Anterograde and retrograde memory loss
Question: Long-term potentiation results in ______________
Answer Choices:
An increase in neurotransmitters released by the postsynaptic neuron
An increase in receptors on the presynaptic neuron
Destruction of the pre- and postsynaptic neurons
An increase in receptors on the postsynaptic neuron
Answer: An increase in receptors on the postsynaptic neuron