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Which part of the brain controls the pituitary gland?
hypothalamus
2
In the case of Little Albert reported by Watson and Rayner the conditioned response was..
the child's frightened response to the white rat
3
The process of neurotransmitter release is referred to as
exocytosis
4
Functions of the right hemisphere include …
all these answers are correct
5
Phobias are more likely to develop to spiders and snakes than to guns and cars because…
we are biologically prepared to be frightened of spiders and snakes
6
In the classical conditioning model of drug tolerance the conditioned response is …
the compensatory reactions triggered by the conditioned stimuli that oppose the primary effects of the drug
7
You have been using the vending machine for some weeks to get a cup of coffee. When the coffee arrives it is always preceded by bubbling and hissing noises from inside the machine and by a paper cup arriving below the liquid spout. One day you put your money in the slot and push the button as usual. The bubbling and hissing noises can be heard and the paper cup arrives. However, the coffee does not. You try pushing the button again and again, and try putting more money in the slot. You try this many more times than you would have done if no sound had come from the machine or if there had been no paper cup. In this example, what example from the lectures does this scenario resemble?
conditioned reinforcement
8
Which of these brain structures is part of the limbic system?
amygdala
9
The Nodes of Ranvier are
gaps in the myelin sheath at which action potentials are generated
10
Which of the following is an advantage of EEG?
Excellect temporal resolution
11
Which of the following lobes is involved in organising sensory input?
temporal lobe
12
In classical neurology, difficulty in producing spoken words is thought to be due to damage to
Broca's area in the frontal lobe
13
instrumental conditioning is also known as
operant conditioning
14
Which of the following lobes is involved in motor functions, problem solving and spontaneity?
frontal lobe
15
Which brain structure is involved in regulating hormonal secretions of the anterior pituitary gland?
hypothalamus
16
In the autoshaping example the pigeon pecks at the light because
the light is a conditioned stimulus that has become associated with food and pigeons have a built-in response to peck at food-related stimuli
17
fMRI produces images that represent changes in ...
blood oxygen levels
18
Which of the following techniques uses a highly focused magnetic field to disrupt the function of neurons?
TMS
19
In the selective conditioning experiment by Garcia and Koelling (1966), the associations learnt with the greatest ease were
taste predicts illness and audiovisual predicts shock
20
Which of the following lobes forms the centre of visual perception?
occipital lobe
21
What motor skill do we see Clive Wearing performing in the YouTube clip "The man with no short term memory" that demonstrates intact implicit memory despite not being able to remember what his wife tells him a few minutes earlier?
playing the piano
22
Habituation and sensitization are types of ...
non associative learning
23
How can emotion be measured
all these alternative answers are correct
24
Which of the following is an advantage of neuropsychological testing of people who have suffered brain damage?
It can provide insight into the causal role of a brain area in a psychological process in a way not possible with functional imaging measures that are correlational.
25
Which of the following lobes deals with touch, pain, proprioception (where our body is in space) and taste?
parietal lobe
26
Which inhibitory neurotransmitter is considered to be the most prevalent in the nervous system
GABA
27
Who studied learning by cats in puzzle boxes and proposed the Law of Effect?
Thorndike
28
Wernicke’s area is responsible for...
Processing spoken or read words into meaningful ideas
29
An alarm system has been installed in the apartment where you are staying. The system is programmed so that a loud alarm sounds unless a button hidden behind the door is pressed within 20 seconds of anyone entering the hall. After setting off the alarm a couple of times, now when you enter the hallway the first thing you do is find and press the hidden button. What example from the lectures does this scenario resemble?
instrumental conditioning with negative reinforcement
30
In the case of Little Albert reported by Watson and Rayner the conditioned stimulus was.
the white rat
31
The amygdala influences behaviour through outputs that influence...
all of these alternatives
32
In the experiment by Le Doux demonstrating the role of the amygdala in fear conditioning, when the animal learns the association between a tone and an electric shock the tone becomes the...
conditioned stimulus
33
During the last war loud air raid sirens were sounded to warn of imminent bombing attacks. On several occasions you experienced bombs dropping nearby after hearing the air raid sirens. This was a frightening experience. Some years later, after the war had finished, you heard the air raid sirens again. You had been doing some work at the time, but stopped what you were doing when you heard the sirens and your heart started beating faster. In this example, what is the unconditioned stimulus?
the bombs dropping
34
Which method provides the best spatial resolution of brain areas?
structural MRI
35
Classical conditioning is also known as ...
pavlovian conditioning
36
Which of these brain structures is most closely involved in the control of eating?
hypothalamus
37
The corpus callosum transfers information between…
the two hemispheres
38
Patient HM was treated for severe epilepsy by bilateral removal of his ...
temporal lobes
39
Which of the following techniques provides images of brain function
None of these alternative answers
40
In the experiment by Siegel (1982), the lowest death rate was amongst the group of rats who …
were given a heroin injection in the same room as they had previously been used to receiving heroin
41
Which part of a neuron receives input from other neurons?
dendrite
42
Which excitatory neurotransmitter is considered to be the most prevalent in the nervous system?
glutamate
43
What percentage of the human brain does the cerebrum account for?
85%
44
When you were using the frying pan the other day you put some wet food into the hot oil in the pan. There was a loud spitting noise and some hot oil from the pan spat out and burnt you on the hand. You rapidly moved your hand away. The next time you put wet food in the frying pan and there was a loud spitting noise, your hand moved away quickly and avoided any hot oil splashes. In this example, what is the unconditioned response?
Moving your hand away after the oil hit your hand
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Habits can result from ...
stimulus response learning
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Which of the following techniques would not be suitable for use in healthy subjects?
Wada technique