Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1.
__________ receive information from other neurons; __________ transmit information to
other neurons.
a.
Axons;
synapses
b.
Dendrites; axons
c.
Synapses;
dendrites
d.
Axons; dendrites
2.
Which
of the following neurotransmitters is primarily involved in the activation of motor neurons
controlling skeletal muscles?
a.
GABA
b.
dopamine
c.
serotonin
d.
acetylcholine
3.
Edmund was walking down a dark street when he heard a car backfire. His heart started
to race and he began to perspire in response to this sudden, startling noise. These physical
reactions were triggered by Edmund's
a.
parasympathetic nervous system
b.
somatic nervous
system
c.
sympathetic nervous system
d.
cerebellum
4.
The
hindbrain structure involved with sleep and arousal is the
a.
hypothalamus
b.
cerebrum
c.
thalamus
d.
pons
5.
Kathryn has learned to fear thunder and lightening storms. When Kathryn's fear was
first acquired there was probably a significant amount of neural activity in
a.
her
amygdala
b.
Wernicke's area
c.
her left
temporal lobe
d.
the midbrain
6.
For
most people, the production of language resides in the
a.
posterior
cerebral hemisphere
b.
central cerebral hemisphere
c.
right cerebral
hemisphere
d.
left cerebral hemisphere
7.
If a
right-handed subject whose corpus callosum has been cut is asked to reproduce a drawing, you would
predict
a.
best performance
by the right hand
b.
best performance by the left hand
c.
equal
performance by the two hands
d.
an inability to draw with either hand
8.
It
appears that schizophrenia
a.
is an inherited trait that is uninfluenced by one's
environment
b.
has no relationship to one's genetic endowment and is primarily
social in origin
c.
has a strong inherited predisposition that interacts with one's
environment
d.
has an early age of vulnerability; if someone has a sufficient
amount of stress before that age, there is a high probability schizophrenia will
develop
9.
If
the human eye was not responsive to differences in the amplitude of light waves, we would not be able
to perceive differences in
a.
saturation
b.
purity
c.
color
d.
brightness
10.
The
blind spot in the eye is
a.
where photoreceptor cells do not
"bleach"
b.
the point at which ganglion cells synapse with bipolar
cells
c.
where the optic nerve exits the back of the
eye
d.
what leads to
color blindness
11.
If
you project a red, a green, and a blue light into space, the point at which the three lights cross
will lead to the perception of
a.
black light
b.
ultraviolet
light
c.
white light
d.
infrared
light
12.
Feature analysis assumes that we progress from individual elements to the whole in the
formation of our perceptions. This is a case of
a.
bottom-up processing
b.
bottom-down
processing
c.
top-down processing
d.
top-to-bottom
processing
13.
Natalie sat on her porch looking out at the field of soybeans. The fact that Natalie
perceived the soybean plants as being grouped into a series of separate rows is consistent with the
Gestalt principle of
a.
closure
b.
simplicity
c.
proximity
d.
similarity
14.
The
phenomenon of size constancy implies that
a.
the perception of size is not related to the perception of
distance
b.
the farther away an object is, the more we underestimate its
true size
c.
two objects will be perceived as the same size whenever they
produce the same size retinal image
d.
two objects may be perceived as being the same size even though
they produce different size retinal images
15.
Research which has investigated odor recognition has found that
a.
males tend to be
somewhat more accurate than females on these types of tasks
b.
females can
detect odors at weaker levels, but males are better at naming the odor
c.
females tend to
be somewhat more accurate than males on these types of tasks
d.
males can detect
odors at weaker levels, but females are better at naming the odor
16.
When
watching a wild car chase scene in a movie we can be thankful for
