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Chapters 1 - 16, Complete Newest Version

,Table of Contents
Chapter 1 What Are the Origins of Brain and Behavior?

Chapter 2 What Is the Nervous System’s Functional Anatomy?

Chapter 3 What Are the Nervous System’s Functional Units?

Chapter 4 How Do Neurons Use Electrical Signals to Transmit Information?

Chapter 5 How Do Neurons Communicate and Adapt?

Chapter 6 How Do Drugs and Hormones Influence the Brain and Behavior?

Chapter 7 How Do We Study the Brain’s Structures and Functions?

Chapter 8 How Does the Nervous System Develop and Adapt?

Chapter 9 How Do We Sense, Perceive, and See the World?

Chapter 10 How Do We Hear, Speak, and Make Music?

Chapter 11 How Does the Nervous System Respond to Stimulation and Produce Movement?

Chapter 12 What Causes Emotional and Motivated Behavior?

Chapter 13 Why Do We Sleep and Dream?

Chapter 14 How Do We Learn and Remember?

Chapter 15 How Does the Brain Think?

Chapter 16 What Happens When the Brain Misbehaves?

,Chapter 1 – What are the origins of Brain and Behaviour?
1. Brain abnormalities can be related to:
A) 500 disorders.
B) 1000 disorders.
C) 1500 disorders.
D) more than 2,000 disorders.



2. All the nerve processes radiating out beyond the brain and spinal cord as well as all the
neurons outside the brain and spinal cord constitute the:
A) nervous system.
B) central nervous system.
C) peripheral nervous system.
D) external nervous system.



3. Which is NOT part of the peripheral nervous system?
A) sensory receptors in the skin
B) connections to motor neurons
C) sensory and motor connections to internal organs (e.g., the stomach)
D) the spinal cord



4. The set of brain structures responsible for most of our unconscious behaviors is called:
A) the cerebral hemisphere.
B) the brainstem.
C) the cerebrum.
D) the cerebellum.



5. The postulation that we make subliminal movements of our larynx and muscles when
we imagine was expounded by:
A) D. O. Hebb.
B) Edmond Jacobson.
C) Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt.



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, D) Fred Linge.



6. “Behavior consists of patterns in time” is a definition of behavior expounded by:
A) D. O. Hebb.
B) Edmond Jacobson.
C) Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt.
D) Fred Linge.



7. Patterns in time can be made up of:
A) movements.
B) thinking.
C) both movements and thinking.
D) neither movements nor thinking.



8. Animals with smaller brains and simpler nervous systems have mostly behaviors,
whereas animals with larger brains and more complex nervous systems have mostly
behaviors.
A) learned; inherited
B) inherited; learned
C) innate; inherited
D) learned; innate



9. Crossbill birds have a beak that is designed to eat pine cones. If we trim the beak, the
behavior disappears. This example illustrates:
A) fixed behavior.
B) flexible behavior.
C) learned behavior.
D) adaptive behavior.



10. The sucking response observed in newborn human infants is an example of a(n):
A) learned response.



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, B) inherited response.
C) flexible response.
D) adaptive response



11. Which statement is the MOST accurate?
A) Nonhuman animals have mostly inherited behavior and are little influenced by
learning.
B) Humans share many inherited behaviors but are mostly influenced by learning.
C) Unlike nonhuman animals, humans share very few inherited behaviors and are
mostly influenced by learning.
D) Unlike nonhuman animals, humans' behavior is totally learned.



12. The hypothesis that the psyche is responsible for behavior was expounded by:
A) Charles Darwin.
B) René Descartes.
C) Aristotle.
D) Socrates.



13. Mentalism is:
A) the study of the mind.
B) mental imagery.
C) the notion that the mind is responsible for behavior.
D) another word for mindfulness.



14. The is a nonmaterial entity that is responsible for intelligence, attention,
awareness, and consciousness.
A) brain
B) heart
C) mind
D) conscience




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,15. The notion that the mind resides in the pineal body comes from:
A) Charles Darwin.
B) René Descartes.
C) Aristotle.
D) Socrates.



16. According to the philosophy of dualism:
A) the body influences the mind.
B) the pineal body is the mind.
C) the pineal body influences the body by directing fluids from the ventricles to the
muscles.
D) the pineal body is the mind and influences the body by directing fluids from the
ventricles to the muscles.


17. Subsequent research indicated that the pineal body was responsible for rather
than controlling human behavior.
A) vision
B) problem solving
C) movement
D) biological rhythms



18. The difficulty in explaining how a nonmaterial mind can influence a material body is
called:
A) the mind problem.
B) the mind-body problem.
C) the brain problem.
D) the psyche problem



19. Descartes's followers would argue that:
A) the mind and the body are separate at birth.
B) humans and very few other animals have minds.
C) young children do not have minds.




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, D) the mentally ill have minds.



20. The notion that all behavior can be explained by the workings of the brain is commonly
referred to as:
A) psychology.
B) experimentalism.
C) materialism.
D) dualism.



21. The notion that all living things are related was put forward by:
A) Charles Darwin.
B) Alfred Russel Wallace.
C) neither Charles Darwin nor Alfred Russel Wallace.
D) both Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.



22. The notion that differential success in the reproduction of characteristics results from
interactions between organisms and their environment is known as:
A) natural selection.
B) genetic theory.
C) biological theory.
D) innate behavior.



23. Images of blood flow in the brain in monkeys have demonstrated that:
A) humans and monkeys use different brain areas for language.
B) humans and monkeys use the same brain areas for language.
C) monkeys show no brain activation for language because they cannot understand
language.
D) None of the answers is correct.



24. Individual variation in plants and animals was first explained by:
A) Charles Darwin.




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, B) Gregor Mendel .
C) neither Charles Darwin nor Gregor Mendel.
D) both Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel.



25. The study of how genetic expression is related to the environment and experience is
known as:
A) genotyping.
B) phenotyping.
C) epigenetics.
D) environmental genetics.



26. Neuroscientists study the nervous systems of other animals such as slugs, snails, fruit
flies, rats and monkeys because:
A) if all animals are related then all nervous systems are related and we can learn
about the human brain by studying other animals.
B) all animals' nervous systems are different, which means that we need to study each
animal separately in order to understand how their specific nervous system works.
C) the mind and the body are separate which means that we need to study a variety of
different animals to see how their minds work.
D) None of the answers is correct.



27. Inherited behavior:
A) is demonstrated only by animal instincts.
B) includes emotional expressions in humans.
C) cannot include emotional expressions in humans because the behavior is learned.
D) includes emotional expression in animals but not in humans.



28. Of the 100,000 people in the United States who may become comatose in a given year,
how many recover consciousness?
A) 5 percent
B) 20 percent
C) 30 percent
D) 50 percent



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, 29. A person who can display some rudimentary behaviors such as smiling or blinking but is
otherwise not conscious is described as being:
A) in a coma.
B) in a persistent vegetative state.
C) in a minimally conscious state.
D) brain dead.



30. In a study with a patient in a minimally conscious state, Schiff and colleagues found that
led to dramatic improvements in the patient's behavior.
A) deep brain stimulation
B) reading to the patient
C) music therapy
D) gene therapy



31. The first humanlike brain evolved:
A) 700 million years ago.
B) 250 million years ago.
C) 6 million years ago.
D) 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.



32. The first brain evolved approximately:
A) 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
B) 3 million to 4 million years ago.
C) 250 million years ago.
D) 700 million years ago.



33. Humans are of the order and the family .
A) mammals; primates
B) primates; mammals
C) primates; great apes




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