BioPsych Practice MCQs
BioPsych Practice MCQs
Test your knowledge in the fascinating field of biopsychology with our BioPsych Practice MCQs quiz! This quiz consists of 59 carefully crafted multiple-choice questions covering various topics such as neuroscience, sensory processing, memory, and brain structure.
Take this opportunity to:
- Identify your strengths and weaknesses in biopsychology.
- Prepare for exams or enhance your understanding of the subject.
- Challenge yourself and learn new concepts!
Which of the following is used in electron microscopy?
Electron beams
Magnetic field
Light wave
Electron beams and Magnetic fields
What does an fMRI produce?
A 2D image produced through radio-frequent waves in the magnetic field
A connectionist model of the brain
An image similar to a black and white x-ray
A 3-D computer generated image of the brain reflecting blood and oxygen flow produced during cerebral
What does the process of transmitting neuron from presynaptic terminal to postsynaptic terminal called?
Synaptic transmission
Neuron transmission
Electrical transmission
Active transport
Which part of neuron receives message from other neurons?
Soma
Dentrites
Buttons
Axons
What does the amino acid 'Acetylcholine' do?
Causes muscular contractions
Prevents muscular contractions
Blocks ACh receptors
None of the above
What will occur when presynaptic terminal depolarized?
Change the excitability of the postsynaptic cell.
Vesicles to fuse with presynaptic membraneOpening or closing of postsynaptic channels
Opening of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels
Opening or closing of postsynaptic channels.
Which membrane produces CSF by filtering blood?
Dura mater
Arachnoid membrane
Choroid plexus
Pia mater
Which later protects the brain and spinal cord?
Pia Mater
Dura Mater
Arachnoid membrane
All of the above
Gray matter is composed of:
Nerves
Axons
Cell bodies and dendrites
Fissures
Which statement regarding the hypothalamus is FALSE?
Hypothalamus located below the thalamus and above the pituitary gland
The hypothalamus is responsible for regulating your hunger, thirst, sexual satisfaction and aggressive behaviour.
The hypothalamus sends instructions to the rest of the body in two ways, which are the autonomic nervous system and pituitary gland.
All sensory information passes through the hypothalamus and it is considered the sensory “way station”.
Damage to the hippocampus is most likely to impair ______
Memory
Balance
Sleeping
Creating
Which following pair of diseases is associated with the lesions in the basal ganglia?
Huntington's & Alzheimer's
Parkinson's & Alzheimer's
Huntington's & Parkinson's
Alzheimer's & Multiple Sclerosis
In the study by Rosenthal & Jacobson (1968), what did they discover about self-fulfilling prophecies?
Treatment by the teachers had a big effect on the student's IQ.
Those placed in the smart group had no effect on the IQ.
Teacher's treated the dumb student's better as they were thought to have a disadvantage.
Kids in the smart group increased in IQ due to a bias from the teacher.
What are the chemicals in photoreceptors that respond to light and assist in converting light into neural activity?
Prosopagnosia
Photopigments
Optic Nerve
Bipolar Cells
What is the third stage of information-precessing in the primary visual pathway?
Visual Cortex
Lateral Geniculate Body
Primary Visual Cortex
Retina
Which fact about rods is incorrect?
Highly dense in the periphery
Sensitive in low light levels
More abundant
Cannot follow rapid changes
Which visual information is processed by dorsal stream of visual information processing?
Object analysis
Colour Discrimination
Visual-spatial and visual-motor information
None of the above
Which of the following statements about the properties of inferior temporal neurons is true?
Inferior temporal cells only respond to visual stimuli
Inferior temporal neurones are usually selective for the shape or colour of the stimulus.
The selectivity of inferior temporal cells for shape is usually invariant over changes in stimulus size and orientation of the retina.
All of the above.
Processing of visual information in the brain is _______?
Parallel
Hierarchal
Serial
Diffused
What is the dorsal pathway of visual processing?
LGN>V1>V2>V4>Inferior Temporal Cortex
Superior Colliculus>V1>V2>V3>Inferior Temporal Cortex
LGN>V1>V2>V3>Inferior Temporal Cortex
Superior Colliculus>V2>V3>V4>Inferior Temporal Cortex
The painless phenomenon, Phantom limb is more likely due to ______
Exhaustion
Somatosensory cortex reorganisation
Damage of the frontal love
Somatomotor Cortex
What is the somatosensory cortex?
A part of brain located in the temporal lobe that is involved in processing sensory input.
A part of the brain located in the cerebral cortex that is involved in processing sensory input.
A part of the brain located in the cerebral cortex that is involved in sending motor signals to the body.
A group of neurons that is involved in sending sensory information to the brain
Someone who suddenly loses the ability to identify objects by feeling them has probably suffered damage to the ________?
Parietal love of the cerebral cortex
Temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex
Frontal love of the cerebral cortex
Dorsomedial nucleus of the thalamus
What hormone is not produced by the adrenal glands?
Cortisol
Dopamine
Adrenaline
Noradrenaline
Which statement is false regarding to lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC)?
Involved in working memory
Found in all mammals
Helps in process of mental rotation
According to Koechlin, the idea of the LPFC is hierarchically organised
Which of the following is a test of the frontal lobe function?
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST)
Stroop task
Tower of London
All of the above
Which is the following is the function of motor cortex?
Movement sequencing
Movement planning
Control of skeletal muscles
Involved in executive functions
What are the two extreme positions of basic emotions and the brain? I.complete specialization ii. Complete dispersion iii. Complete adaptation iv. Complete distribution
I and IV
II and III
I and II
III and IV
Which arrangment is the model of language processing? I. Broca's area II.Wernicke’s area III. Arcuate fasciculus
I>II>III
II>I>III
II>III>I
I>III>II
Upbeat and pleasant tone of voice and diagonally raised of lip corners” Description above may be seen as a sign of
Happiness
Confidence
Surprise
Fear
What concept did Watson's Little Albert study use?
Operant Conditioning
Behaviour Therapy
Temporal Contiguity
Classical Conditioning
What are the 3 procedures for a conditioned emotional response?
Baseline Response, Deconditioning, Test of strength of learning
Baseline Response,Conditioning, Test of strength of learning
Frontline Response,Conditioning, Test of reliability
Frontline Response, Deconditioning, Test of reliability
Which schedule of reinforcement includes having a reinforcement that's unpredictable?
Fixed ratio
Variable ratio
Fixed interval
Variable interval
Thorndike’s Law of Effect says that animals will learn responses that are
Rewarded
Reflexive
Prompted
Preceeded by a neural stimulus
Suppose that you have taught your dog to roll over for the reward of a dog biscuit. Then, one day you run out of the dog biscuits. Which schedule of reinforcement would keep your dog responding longer without a biscuit?
Continuous reinforcement
Partial reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Noncontigent Reinforcement
Which of the following statements about the scheduling of partial reinforcement is correct?
ratio schedules (fixed or variable) generally produce greater resistance to extinction than interval schedules
Ratio schedules (fixed or variable) generally tends to produce higher response rate than interval schedules
Variable schedules (ratio or interval) generally produce higher response rate than fixed schedules
Fixed schedules (ratio or interval) generally produce greater resistance to extinction than variable schedules
Which of the following best describe negative reinforcement?
A negative reinforcement is providing a reinforcing stimulus which leads to an increase of behaviour in the future.
A negative reinforcement is providing a reinforcing stimulus which leads to a decrease of the behaviour in the future.
A negative reinforcement is removing a reinforcing stimulus which leads to an increase of behaviour in the future.
None of the above.
"In schizophrenia when an individual has disorganized speech the term ‘clanging’ refers to: "
Individuals only communicate with words that rhyme
Individuals communicate without completing their sentences
Speech may be neither structured nor comprehensible
All of the above
Which of the following is a property related to depression?
Euphoria
Delusion
Low energy levels
Short attention span
What is a property of bipolar disorder?
It occurs 2 to 3 times more in women than in men
It affects 1% of the population at some point of their life
Episodes of depression without mania
All of the above
Which of these statements are the recuperation theories of sleep ?
Not having enough sleep will disrupt homeostasis
Sleep is based on an internal timing mechanism
Sleep has evolved to prevent accidents and predation at night
All of the above
In a study conducted by Seely & Woods (2003), it was found that when ob/ob mice were injected with leptin, ________ .
They ate more than normal and therefore gained weight.
They ate less than normal and therefore lost weight.
They ate the same amount and they lost weight.
It did not significantly affect the apetite or weight of the mice.
Which of these are key stages of the study of language
Structuralism
The formative period
The cognitive period
All of the above
When an individual has a disruption of the ability to speak is known generally as:
Wernicke's Aphasia
Broca's Aphasia
Beidecker's Aphasia
Warnick's Aphasia
Gall's 'Localisation of function' theory proposes that:
A function performed by one cerebral hemisphere is not shared by the other
Damage to a cerebral hemisphere impairs movement of the opposite side of the body
A well-developed cortical gyrus indicates a greater capacity for a particular behavior
The left hemisphere is recognised for its distinct role in language
Which from the following is incorrect regarding episodic memories?
Works independently from semantic memories
Episodic memories are part of declarative memories
Episodic memories are memories regarding specific everyday/past events
Emotions play a role in the consolidation of episodic memories
Which condition causes the inability to extract global structure?
Anterograde amnesia
Retrograde amnesia
Apperceptive agnosia
Associative agnosia
Which of the following species is not a part of the Hominid family?
Orangutan
Gibbon
Chimpanzee
Meerkat
What is the combination of alleles at a specific locus called?
Genotype
Genes
DNA
Alleles
The idea that for any particular trait, the pair of alleles of each parent separate and only one allele from each parent passes to an offspring is Mendel's principle of:
Independent Assortment
Segregation
Hybridisation
None of the above
Which disorder is caused by the replication of FMR1 protein?
Schizophrenia
Down's Syndrome
Fragile X Syndrome
Williams Syndrome
Huntington's Disease is a ________, caused by a defective gene on _________.
Autosomal dominant disorder, Chromosome 12
Autosomal dominant disorder, Chromosome 4
Autosomal recessive disorder, Chromosome 12
Autosomal recessive disorder, Chromosome 4
What is the chance of getting Williams syndrome?
1/2,000
1/200
1/20,000
1/50,000
Which of the following is not an X-linked disorder?
Turner
Schizophrenia
Klinefelter
Fragile X Syndrome
Given that emotional states are distinguished via fMRI, what is the main purpose of using an fMRI?
To make predictions for emotions and responses
To make predictions for emotional responses according to the stimulus
To assess brain activity during emotions
To study the complexity of emotions
What is an example of imprinting?
A chimp making a stone tool that he will use to open a box of food
Young ducklings continuously following the first moving object they saw during the "critical period"
A child learning to make different facial expressions by observing his/her mother
None of the above
What did Jean Baptiste Bouilaud (1796-1881) find when pressure was applied to exposed frontal lobes of his patient?
Temporary loss of memory
Dizziness
Lost the ability to speak
None of the above
What is the function of posterior areas of superior parietal lobule?
Coding in hand-centered coordination systems
Coding in vision-centered coordination systems
Coding in movement-centered coordination systems
Coding in hearing-centered coordination systems
What impairment is caused by oculomotor apraxia?
Innappropriate gaze fixations
Inability to perceive objects as wholes
Impairment in perceiving multiple items in the visual field
Inability to coordinate hand-eye movem
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