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Quiz: Emotions, Behavior, Learning and Memory
Due Feb 21 at 11:59pm Points 125 Questions 40
Time Limit 90 Minutes Allowed Attempts 3
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The quiz:
Covers the Learnmaterial from Module 5: Week 5 – Module 6: Week 6.
Contains 40 multiple-choicequestions.
Is limited to 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Allows 3 attempts and the highest attempt will count towards the grade.
Is worth 125 points.
Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module 6: Week 6.
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Question 1
Which of the following is characterized by extreme sympathetic nervous system
arousal?
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Locked-in syndrome
Pure autonomic failure
Panic attack
Prosopagnosia
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Question 2
Findings from people with pure autonomic failure suggest that ____.
autonomic output is important for experiencing emotion
the James-Lange theory is incorrect
feelings are the same thing as emotions
lack of physiological feedback makes us happy
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Question 3
When faced with moral dilemmas involving killing one person to save five
others, ____.
people with the weakest autonomic arousal are the least likely
to make the “logical” decision to kill one and save ve others
people with the strongest autonomic arousal are the least likely
to make the “logical” decision to kill one and save ve others
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people with the strongest somatic arousal are the least likely to
make the “logical” decision to kill one and save ve others
people with the weakest somatic arousal are the least likely to
make the “logical” decision to kill one and save ve others
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Question 4
The behavioral inhibition system is associated with ____.
low to moderate arousal, tendency to approach new objects,
and pleasant mood
maximum arousal, increased fear, and negative mood
lack of arousal, decreased action, and pleasant mood
increased attention and arousal, decreased action, and fear or
disgust
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Question 5
Stress activates two systems. One is the ____.
HPA axis, which reacts more quickly than the other
HPA axis, which becomes increasingly important with
prolonged stressors
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autonomic nervous system which secretes the hormone ACTH
autonomic nervous system which secretes the hormone
cortisol
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Question 6
Startle responses are greater when a person is ____.
depressed
anxious
violent
aggressive
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Question 7
An experimental drug, Ro15-4513, has been shown to block the behavioral
effects of ____.
tricyclics
amphetamines
alcohol
endozepines
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Question 8
The amygdala sends axons to the ____, which in turn sends axons to the pons to
control the startle reflex.
midbrain
caudate nucleus
cingulate gyrus
pineal gland
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Question 9
The classical illness behaviors such as fever, sleepiness, and lack of appetite are
caused by ____.
decreased brain activity
toxins released by pathogens
the immune system’s production of cytokines
antibody production
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Question 10
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The group of forebrain structures that appear to be critical for emotion comprise
the ____.
pyramidal system
sympathetic nervous system
parasympathetic nervous system
limbic system
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Question 11
Who is most likely to have the strongest startle reflex?
Malia who is depressed
Daine who is happy
Jacinta who is sleepy
Trudie who has PTSD
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Question 12
According to a number of animal studies, under which condition is the
probability of violent behavior greatest?
Low acetylcholine turnover
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High acetylcholine turnover
Low serotonin turnover
High serotonin turnover
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Question 13
Which effect is likely to result from damage to the amygdala?
Lack of a startle response
A normal startle response, but an absence of learned fears
An enhanced startle response and an enhanced response to
learned fears
A fear response to any novel stimulus
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Question 14
Leukocytes identify intruder cells by their ____
shape
chromosomal pattern
rate of cell division
surface proteins
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Question 15
At the center of the GABAᴀ receptor is a ____.
benzodiazepine
neurotransmitter
chloride channel
transmitter channel
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Question 16
What did researchers find in Antarctic research scientists who spent a 9-month
period of social isolation in the cold and dark?
T-cell functioning increased by about 50 percent
T-cell functioning decreased by about half
Leukocytes stopped functioning
An outbreak of autoimmune diseases
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Question 17
The limbic system consists of structures that are believed to be important for
which kind of responses?
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Reexes
Fine motor control
Spatial orientation
Emotional
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Question 18
Directly stimulating the ____ of a hamster results in priming it to attack, even
without the previous experience of fighting.
corticomedial amygdala
cortex
temporal lobe
occipital lobe
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Question 19
Tanya has been experiencing frequent periods of anxiety and occasional attacks
of rapid breathing, increased heart rate, sweating, and trembling. Her doctor
diagnosed her with ______.
an anxiety disorder
amygdala damage
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an overactive parasympathetic system
depression
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Question 20
Which type of leukocyte destroys tumor cells and cells infected with viruses?
T cells
B cells
Schwann cells
natural killer cells
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Question 21
Incorrect
Incorrect
Professor Clark tells her class that a Hebbian synapse is one that can ____.
decrease its effectiveness as a result of simultaneous activity
in the dendrites and the soma
increase its effectiveness as a result of simultaneous activity in
the dendrites and the soma
increase its effectiveness as a result of simultaneous activity in
the presynaptic and postsynaptic neurons
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decrease its effectiveness as a result of simultaneous activity
in the presynaptic and postsynaptic neurons
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Question 22
What should be the usual relationship between the conditioned stimulus and the
unconditioned stimulus in classical conditioning?
The conditioned stimulus should be presented rst.
The unconditioned stimulus should be presented rst.
They should be presented simultaneously.
It depends on what each stimulus is.
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Question 23
____ is an influence of recent experience on behavior, even if one does not
recognize that influence.
Priming
Explicit memory
Procedural memory
Implicit memory
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Question 24
Shanna is a chronic alcoholic. Recently, she has started having memory
problems. She will most likely be diagnosed with _____.
Korsakoff’s syndrome
Alzheimer’s disease
a stroke
Down syndrome
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Question 25
Humans differ from chimpanzees in two genes responsible for ______ transport.
glucose
dopamine
serotonin
sodium
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Question 26
The cortex works as a whole, and the more cortex the better, defines ____.
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instrumental conditioning
classical conditioning
equipotentiality
mass action
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Question 27
Alzheimer’s is associated with brain damage as a result of ____.
loss of the bers connecting the substantia nigra to the basal
ganglia
loss of cell bodies in the dorsomedial thalamus
tangles and plaques in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus
an epileptic focus in the temporal lobe of the cortex
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Question 28
A study with London taxi drivers found that answering ____ activated their
hippocampus more than answering ____.
nonspatial questions; spatial questions
spatial questions; nonspatial questions
long questions; short questions
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short questions; long questions
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Question 29
Hippocampal damage has the greatest effect on ____.
the delayed match-to-sample task when the same two objects
are used repeatedly
the delayed match-to-sample task when the two objects are
continuously changed
the delayed nonmatch-to-sample task when the same two
objects are used repeatedly
procedural memory
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Question 30
A rat must swim through murky water to find a rest platform that is just under
the surface in the ____.
radial maze
Morris water maze
congurable learning task
delayed matching-to-sample task
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Question 31
The general function of working memory is to ____.
hold information until it has time to get to long-term storage
store memories of life events permanently
attend to and operate on current information
store information related to repetitious motor movements
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Question 32
If some of the synapses onto a cell have been highly active and others have not,
only the active ones become strengthened. This is known as the property of
____.
specicity
cooperativity
associativity
NMDA
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Question 33
There is compelling evidence for the role of the hippocampus in ____ memory.
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short-term
implicit
spatial
auditory
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Question 34
Damage to the ____ produces symptoms similar to Korsakoff’s syndrome.
prefrontal cortex
basal ganglia
occipital cortex
precentral gyrus
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Question 35
Professor Lin tells her class that, for humans, intelligence scores correlate with
the surface area of the ______.
frontal and parietal cortex
temporal cortex
cerebellum
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thalamus and hypothalamus
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Question 36
Professor Hemsley tells his class that Lashley failed to find the engram because
_____.
The cerebral cortex isn’t the only brain region responsible for
memory.
He didn’t fully understand the principles of LTP.
The engram is continually changing location in the brain.
Operant conditioning had not been discovered yet.
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Question 37
A rat is placed in a radial maze in which it has already been trained for many
trials. As compared to rats without damage to their hippocampus, rats with
damage are more likely to ____.
enter an alley at random
fail to eat the food they nd
enter one of the correct alleys repeatedly
enter an alley that is never correct
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Question 38
The delayed response task requires responding to something that you saw or
heard ____.
in the distant past
a short while ago
right at that time
in a meaningful way
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Question 39
Vivian gives her child candy after she cleans up her room. The candy is an
example of _____.
a reinforcer
a punishment
a conditioned stimulus
an unconditioned stimulus
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Question 40
The inability to form memories for events that happened after brain damage is a
characteristic of ____ amnesia.
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retrograde
anterograde
proactive
procedural
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