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Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience
Bob Garrett, and Gerald Hough
5th Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 What Is Behavioral Neuroscience? 1
Chapter 02 Communication within the Nervous System 55
Chapter 03 The Organization and Functions of the Nervous System 107
Chapter 04 The Methods and Ethics of Research 159
Chapter 05 Drugs, Addiction, and Reward 215
Chapter 06 Motivation and the Regulation of Internal States 269
Chapter 07 The Biology of Sex and Gender 324
Chapter 08 Emotion and Health 379
Chapter 09 Hearing and Language 433
Chapter 10 Vision and Visual Perception 474
Chapter 11 The Body Senses and Movement 528
Chapter 12 Learning and Memory 583
Chapter 13 Intelligence and Cognitive Functioning 641
Chapter 14 Psychological Disorders 698
Chapter 15 Sleep and Consciousness 754
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Chapter 1: What Is Behavioral Neuroscience?
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. What modern invention has the brain been compared to in terms of storage capacity?
a. a Google server
b. a smartphone
c. the Internet
d. a compact disc
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What is Behavioral Neuroscience?
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. The decade of the 1990s was designated as the decade of ______.
a. the brain
b. the mind
c. cognition
d. behavior
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1-3: Identify the role of physiologists in the establishment of
modern-day behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What is Behavioral Neuroscience?
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Which of the following is a recent discovery in the field of behavioral neuroscience?
a. The cause of depression has been identified.
b. Dementia has been cured.
c. The brain area responsible for consciousness has been identified.
d. Genes for schizophrenia have been identified.
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-3: Identify the role of physiologists in the establishment of
modern-day behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What is Behavioral Neuroscience?
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. What do behavioral neuroscientists study?
a. the relationship between the body and the brain
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b. the relationship between behavior and the body
c. the structure of the body
d. the rules that describe how behavior is modifiable by experience
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Origins of Behavioral Neuroscience
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Which of the following terms can be used interchangeably with “behavioral
neuroscience”?
a. psychology
b. biology
c. behavioral genetics
d. psychobiology
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Origins of Behavioral Neuroscience
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Psychologists consider emotions, thoughts, memories, and observable acts to be
characterized as ______.
a. cognitions
b. behaviors
c. processes
d. mysteries of the mind
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Origins of Behavioral Neuroscience
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Which of the following would be a question that a behavioral neuroscientist would
investigate?
a. Which neurotransmitter systems are responsible for the development of drug
addiction?
b. Which muscles focus the eye on a moving object?
c. Is there a genetic predisposition for cancer?
d. What are the diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder?
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
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Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Origins of Behavioral Neuroscience
Difficulty Level: Hard
8. If you were able to build a time machine and wanted to travel back to observe the first
psychology laboratory, where would you go?
a. to Charles Darwin’s office in Germany
b. to Charles Darwin’s boat in England
c. to Wilhelm Wundt’s lab in Germany
d. to Rene Descartes’ apothecary in France
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Origins of Behavioral Neuroscience
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. Which of the following is true of the mind–brain question?
a. It was originally posed by early neuroscientists and remains unsolved today.
b. It is concerned with the nature of the mind and its relation to the brain.
c. It usually involves a choice between the positions of psychology and philosophy.
d. It usually involves a choice between the positions of psychology and biology.
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Prescientific Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. The textbook authors and many neuroscientists view the mind as a ______.
a. spirit
b. soul
c. source of our actions
d. concept
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Prescientific Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Which of the following statements is most consistent with the materialistic monist
view of the mind–brain problem?
a. The brain and the mind are both physical.
b. Everything is made of matter and energy.
c. The body is made of matter, whereas the mind is not.
d. Both hemispheres of the brain work together.
Ans: A
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Test Bank - Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, 5th Edition (Garrett, 2018)
Instructor Resource
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SAGE Publishing, 2018
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Prescientific Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Which of the following statements is most consistent with the dualism view of the
mind–brain problem?
a. The brain and the mind are both physical.
b. Everything is made of matter and energy.
c. The body is made of matter, whereas the mind is not.
d. Both hemispheres of the brain work together.
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Prescientific Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Which of the following statements is most consistent with the idealistic monism view
of the mind–brain problem?
a. The brain and the mind are both physical.
b. The mind and brain are not physical.
c. The body is made of matter, whereas the mind is not.
d. Both hemispheres of the brain work together.
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Prescientific Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Which mind–brain view is most likely to be held by a neuroscientist?
a. idealistic monism
b. materialistic monism
c. interactionism
d. dualism
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Prescientific Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. If you say you are a dualist, you are saying you believe in ______.
a. the mind and the spirit
b. only the nonmaterial
c. a mind that is separate from the brain
d. the body and the brain
Ans: C
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Test Bank - Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, 5th Edition (Garrett, 2018)
Instructor Resource
Garrett, Brain & Behavior 5e
SAGE Publishing, 2018
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Prescientific Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. If you say you are a monist, you are saying you believe in ______.
a. just the mind
b. both the material and the nonmaterial
c. just the spiritual
d. the brain and mind being composed of the same substance
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Prescientific Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. Which of the following is an accurate statement about the origins of the mind–brain
problem?
a. This problem was first debated by psychologists in the late 1800s.
b. This problem was first debated by philosophers in the fifth century BCE.
c. This problem was first debated by Darwin’s followers in the late 1800s.
d. This problem was first debated by neuroscientists in the 1990s.
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Prescientific Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. Which of the following individuals was a dualist?
a. Plato
b. Democritus
c. Aristotle
d. Darwin
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Prescientific Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. Dr. Smith believes that both the mind and the brain are made of physical matter.
Which philosopher would agree most with Dr. Smith’s views?
a. Descartes
b. Plato
c. Democritus
d. Wundt
Ans: C
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Test Bank - Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, 5th Edition (Garrett, 2018)
Instructor Resource
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SAGE Publishing, 2018
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Prescientific Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem
Difficulty Level: Hard
20. What difficulty did dualists face in finding support for their views regarding the mind
and brain?
a. explaining how a physical brain could result in mental processes
b. explaining how the mind could exist
c. explaining how the brain could exist
d. explaining how a nonphysical mind could impact a physical body
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Prescientific Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem
Difficulty Level: Easy
21. What difficulty did monists face in finding support for their views regarding the mind
and brain?
a. explaining how a physical brain could result in mental processes
b. explaining how the mind could exist
c. explaining how the brain could exist
d. explaining how a nonphysical mind could impact a physical body
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Prescientific Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem
Difficulty Level: Easy
22. Which of the following was a barrier to resolving the mind–brain problem during the
time of the early philosophical debates in the fifth century BCE?
a. The mind could only be observed in corpses.
b. The mind could only be observed in nonhuman animals.
c. There was not an understanding of how the brain or its cells functioned.
d. Introspection provided limited views of the brain.
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Prescientific Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. Nakia wants to better understand the neural basis of deception, so she recruits
people to undergo brain scans while they tell a lie. The fact that Nakia believes she can
uncover where deceptions come from in the brain reveals that Nakia is a ______.
a. dualist
b. idealistic monist
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c. materialistic monist
d. philosopher
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-1: Define the mind-brain problem in behavioral neuroscience
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Prescientific Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem
Difficulty Level: Hard
24. A(n) ______ is a proposed mechanism to explain how something, usually more
complex than the proposed mechanism, works.
a. assumption
b. model
c. construct
d. hypothesis
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Descartes and the Physical Model of Behavior
Difficulty Level: Easy
25. Which of the following is a true statement about scientific models?
a. A model can only be a theory that explains why a behavior occurs.
b. A model can only be an organism or system that includes components of a behavior
that is studied.
c. A model organism is typically more complex than the organism that scientists are
working to understand.
d. A model can be either a theory or a simple organism or system.
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Descartes and the Physical Model of Behavior
Difficulty Level: Easy
26. Based on the discussion of models in the textbook, why do many behavioral
neuroscientists study rats?
a. Rats are complex animals.
b. Rats are simpler systems than humans.
c. Rats are more complex than computers.
d. Rats were central to Darwin’s theory.
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Descartes and the Physical Model of Behavior
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Difficulty Level: Medium
27. Researchers have used computers to model ______ that occur(s) in humans.
a. cognitive processes
b. Alzheimer’s disease
c. only simplistic behaviors
d. only abnormal behaviors
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Descartes and the Physical Model of Behavior
Difficulty Level: Easy
28. According to Descartes, the brain controlled behavior by ______.
a. directing spirit fluid through nerves, thereby inflating the muscles
b. tilting the spinal cord like a joystick
c. bending energy from an outside light source
d. actively directing the pineal gland to inflate and deflate
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Descartes and the Physical Model of Behavior
Difficulty Level: Easy
29. Descartes used a ______ model for the activity of the human brain.
a. hydraulic
b. computer
c. rat
d. connectionist
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
development of behavioral neuroscience as a field of study
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Descartes and the Physical Model of Behavior
Difficulty Level: Easy
30. According to Descartes, ______ was where the mind interacted with the body.
a. the pituitary gland
b. the ventricles of the brain
c. fluid filled nerves and muscles
d. the pineal gland
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-2: Describe the contributions of philosophers and scientists to the
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