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Biopsychology: Answers to Quiz 7
1.
In the first half of the 20th century, the results of research on the corpus callosum was paradoxical.
Answer:
Potentially: important (large size, central position). Seemingly: not important (animals with corpus callosum cut and humans born without it seemed normal).
2.
Excessive oral explanation of objects is a symptom of the _______________, which was initially produced in monkeys by the ________________ removal or destruction of the ________________ lobes.
Answer:
1. Kluver-Bucy syndrome
2. bilateral
3. anterior portions of temporal
3.
_____________ agonists are commonly used in the treatment of both depression and anxiety disorders.
Answer: Serotonin
4.
Although the sensorimotor system is largely a contralateral system, the _________ hemisphere does exert significant control over the ________ hand, more than the ________ hemisphere exerts over the _________ hand.
Answer:
1. left
2. left
3. right
4. right
5.
Broca's aphasia is to Broca's area as alexia is to the ________________.
Answer: left angualar gyrus
6.
Most prevalent of all psychiatric disorders are the ________________.
Answer: anxiety disorders
7.
The most commonly used behavioural measure of language lateralization in healthy subjects is the _________________ test.
Answer: Dichotic Listening
8.
Echolalia is a common symptom of both ___________ and ________________.
Answer:
1. schizophrenia
2. Tourette's Syndrome
9.
After the beginning of human clinical trials of an effective drug, it takes approximately ____ years before the drug can be sold to the public.
Answer: 8.5
10.
Almost all __________ are left-hemisphere dominant for speech, whereas the majority of __________ are left-hemisphere dominant for speech.
Answer:
1. dextrals
2. sinestrals
11.
Antihistamine is to schizophrenia as a treatment for tuberculosis is to _______________.
Answer: depression
12.
_________ is less common in _________ than in England because _________ has fewer, and more consistently spelled, _________ than does _________ .
Answer:
1. Developmental dyslexia
2. Italy
3. Italian language
4. phonemes
5. English language
13.
_______________ is effective against mania, but at high doses it is used to produced gastrointestinal upset in conditioned taste aversion experiments.
Answer: Lithium
14.
Bilateral lesions to the auditory cortex disrupt ________________ when the conditional stimuli are complex sounds but not when they are simple tones.
Answer: fear conditioning
15.
The adrenal cortex is to glucocorticoids as the ________________ is to ACTH.
Answer: anterior pituitary
16.
_________ cats display ______________ but not if the hypothalamus is also removed.
Answer:
1. Decorticate
2. sham rage
17.
Although it is not used to treat depression, ________________ has a striking, albeit temporary, therapeutic effect.
Answer: sleep deprivation
18.
Male rats chronically exposed to ________________ are likely to attack juveniles and tend to have smaller testes, lower levels of testosterone, and shorter life spans.
Answer: subordination stress
19.
Place each of the following letters next to the correct disorder.
a. bipolar
b. basal ganglia
c. tics
d. imipramine
e. atypical neuroleptics
f. benzodiazepines
g. diathesis-stress model
h. waxy flexibility
1. schizophrenia
2. affective disorders
3. anxiety disorders
4. Tourette's syndrome
Answer:
1. e, h
2. a, d, g
3. f
4. b, c
20.
Handling rat pups has a variety of long-term beneficial effects on their health. These effects appear to be mediated by handling-produced increases in _______________.
Answer: maternal grooming
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