FINALS BIOPSYCH QUIZ / By: IA

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Finals Biopsych Quiz

Test your knowledge on biopsychology with our comprehensive quiz designed for students and enthusiasts alike. With 40 carefully crafted questions, this quiz covers key concepts in memory, emotions, sleep, and brain function. Whether you're preparing for finals or just want to challenge yourself, this quiz has something for everyone!

40 engaging multiple-choice questions
Topics include memory, sleep disorders, and brain chemistry
Perfect for students and learners in biopsychology

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A woman developed a tumor that diminished her ability to form new-long term memories. Though memory involves numerous parts of the brain, the part most likely affected by the tumor is the

Amygdala

Hippocampus

One key difference between sensory memory and short term memory is

Short term memory can be described, while sensory memories cannot.

Inability to retrieve information from long-term memory

The simplest way to maintain information in short-term memory is to repeat the information in a process called

Retrieval

Rehearsal

Memory researchers define forgetting as the

inability to retrieve information from long-term memory

inability to reverse information from long-term memory

In reference to the answer to no. 5, in people with Korsakoff’s syndrome, low levels of certain B-vitamin develop cell loss in the

Mammillary bodies

Engram

Josephine witnessed a man murder a woman on the street. Even though she was not physically harmed in the event, ever since that day, she has not been able to remember her name or anything about her own identity. Which kind of amnesia is Josephine experiencing?

Dissociative Amnesia

Traumatic or stressful situation

Which of the following statements about dissociative amnesia is NOT correct?

It is more common on traumatic and stressful situation

It is more common among men than women

Under which of the following conditions does memory sometimes return quickly?

When the person is removed from the traumatic or stressful situation

When the person is removed from the active situation

Which of the following routes of administration is the fastest way to deliver a drug into the bloodstream?

Intravenuous , when injected

Intravenuous , when detected

What is the difference between dopamine and serotonin?

Dopamine is involved in movement, coordination, and a person’s feelings of pleasure and reward. Serotonin is involved in emotions as well, but it also affects digestion and metabolism.

It refers to an organism’s ability to adjust its physiological processes to maintain a steady internal balance or equilibrium

Homeostasis

Fever

This is a condition that produces sudden spasms in the arteries, particularly those in fingers and toes, in response to cold

Down Syndrome

Raynaud’s Syndrome

It is carefully controlled increase in the body’s thermal set point that is often helpful in ridding the body of disease causing organisms

Hyponatremia

Fever

It produces hormones that regulate the body’s metabolic rate controlling heart, muscle, and digestive function, brain development and bone maintenance.

Thyroids

Amygdala

It is a theory of sleep that suggests that the primary function of sleep is to reduce an individual’s energy demand and expenditure during part of the day or night, especially at times when it is at least efficient to search for food.

Energy- Conservation Theory

Energy- Conversation Theory

It is a period of sleep characterized by desynchronus brain activity, muscle paralysis, eye movement, and story-like dream behavior.

REM Sleep

RAM Sleep

What are the brain chemicals and neurotransmitters involved in Sleep and Waking?

Adenosine, Cortisol, GABA, Acetylcholine, Melatonin,

Adenosine, Cortisol, Acetylcholine, Melatonin, GABA

It is an indoleamine secreted by the pineal gland that participates in the regulation of circadian rhythms. It makes you feel sleepy ad ready for bed (naturally occurring sleep)

Melatonin

REM Sleep

It is a sleep-wake disorder that involves the intrusion of unusual behaviors into sleep. E.g sleep walking, sleep talking, nightmare

Dyssomnia

Parasomnia

It is a sleep disorder that involves difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep. E.g sleep apnea, insomnia, hypersomnia, narcolepsy

Dyssomnia

Parasomnia

These are internal states that are autonomic responses which appear before certain stimuli, such as the sadness we experience when we lose a loved one.

Emotions

Feelings

Two brain areas involved in the neutral network of aggressive behavior are

Amygdala and Hypothalamus

Cerebellum and Cerebrum

It is a protective filter that makes it difficult for many potentially dangerous bloodborne chemicals to pass from the blood vessels of the CNS into its neuron

Blood-Strain Barrier

Blood-Brain Barrier

After significant amounts of drug have been in the body for a period of time (e.g several days), its sudden elimination can trigger an adverse physiological reaction called a/an

Withdrawal Syndrome

Raynaud's Syndrome

It refers to the habitual use of psychoactive drugs with continuous usage despite its adverse effects on health, well-being, and social life, and despite repeated efforts to stop using it.

Drug Addiction

Addiction

Which situation describes the use of episodic memory?

Mona remembered the excitement of the birthday part her friends had planned for her.

It is responsible for initiating responses to coller core temperatures, such as shivering and blood vessel constriction.

Anterior Hypothalamus

Posterior Hypothalamus

Thirst occurs as a result of two more sophisticated processes

Osmotic thirst and Hypovolemic thirst

This theory suggests that a combination of the two processes of dehydration contributes to thirst

Double-depletion hypothesis

Triple-depletion hypothesis

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