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Biopsychology: Quiz 1
1. Dr. Jones is a biopsychologist who studies the relation between emotion and facial expression by recording the muscle tension of various facial muscles of human subjects. He would be classified as a ________________.
2. Dr. Ramer is a biopsychologist. She studies the neural mechanisms of memory by destroying various brain structures in rats and assessing their ability to remember objects. Dr. Ramer would be classified as a ____________________.
3. Dr. Graystone is a biopsychologist who tries to understand the neural mechanisms of aggression by studying the aggressive behaviour of neurosurgical patients. Dr. Graystone would be classified as a _______________________.
4. Dr. Smilie is a biopsychologist who tries to understand human obesity by studying the foraging behaviour of gorillas. She would be classified as a ______________.
5. Not all biopsychologists are neuroscientists. Explain.
6. Mr. Samson made a lesion in the globus pallidus of severalrats. He found that these rats could not learn a maze task. He concluded that the globus pallidus is involved in learning. In so doing, he violated ___________________.
7. Like PKU, most neuropsychological disorders with a major genetic component are linked to recessive genes. Why are they rarely linked to dominant genes?
(Note that this answer is not explicitly explained in Chapters 1 or 2; you will have to figure out the answer to this, and many subsequent questions, from the information provided.)
8. The incidence of a particular neurological disorder was found to be twice as a high in females as in males. This told the investigators two things about the genetics of the disorder. What were they?
9. A recent experiment showed that acupuncture reduced pain in a group of injured football players more than it did in a group of untreated football players. In this experiment, the placebo effect was a ____________variable.
10.
Jimmie G.'s amnesia was a symptom of a common neuropsychological disorder. This disorder is called _________________.
11. If an object is moving to the left at 1 meter per second and the eyes are rotating to the right at half that speed, the object is perceived to be moving to the __________ at ________________ per second.
12. All behaviour is the product of interactions among three factors:
13. Which of the following groups do humans belong to?
1. chordates
2. vertebrates
3. hominids
4. mammals
14. The fossils of Australopithecus have been carefully studied by ________________.
15. A bat's wing and a human arm are __________________ structures. Are they the product of convergent evolution?
16. The training of a biopsychologist often does not end with a Ph.D. The next stage is often informally referred to as doing a ________________.
17. If a study of the heritability of intelligence were conducted on a sample of subjects that were particularly homogeneous in their upbringing, the heritability estimate would likely be particularly _______ (high or low?).
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