AP Psychology Exam Review 3

Question 0

To demonstrate that brain stimulation can make a rat violently aggressive, a neuroscientist should electrically stimulate the rats’s…

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Amygdala

Question 1

Neurotransmitters

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The spatial junctions where impulses are chemically transmitted from one neuron to another

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Plasticity

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The capacity of one brain area to take over the functions of another damaged brain area

Question 3

The longest part of a neuron is likely to be the….

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Synapse

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What is the function of the dendrites

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Receive incoming signals from other neurons

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Threshold

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The minimum level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse

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Action potential

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A brief electrical charge that travels down the axon of a neuron

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The secretions of the pituitary gland are most directly regulated by the…

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Hypothalamus

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Migraine headaches are most closely linked with an…

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Oversupply of glutamate

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Which lobe did Phineas Gage damage

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Frontal

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Reuptake

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Reabsorption of excess neurotransmitter molecules by a sending neuron

Question 11

An under supply of serotonin is most closely linked to…

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Depression

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Which of the following techniques would surgeons use in mapping the areas of the brain responsible for specific activities such as movement or speech

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Positron emission tomography (PET)

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Severing a cat’s reticular formation from higher brain regions causes the cat to…

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Lapse into a coma

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What are the molecules that are similar enough to a neurotransmitter to bind to its receptor sites on a dendrite and mimic that neurotransmitter’s effects called?

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Agonists

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Your life would be most immediately threatened if you suffered destruction of the…

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Medulla

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Information travels from the spinal cord to the brain via

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Interneurons

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Lack of pain is most likely linked to the release of…

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Dopamine

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A person with schizophrenia may have an overactive dopamine system. Drugs used to treat this disorder prevent the action of dopamine by keeping it from blinding to its receptors. These drugs are…

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Antagonists

Question 19

Psychologist Michael Gazzaniga asked split-brain patients to stare at a dog as he flashed HE+ART on a screen. HE appeared in the left visual field, Art on the right. When asked, patients said the saw…

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ART

Question 20

Sleep researchers who are interested in brain wave activity are likely to use which kind of brain scan..

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EEG

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Pituitary gland

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The master gland of the endocrine system

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The concentration of glucose in active regions of the brain underlines the usefulness of a…

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PET scan

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The tremors of Parkinson’s disease result from the death of nerve cells that produce the neurotransmitter

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Dopamine

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The slowdown of neural communication in multiple sclerosis involves a degeneration of the...

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Myelin sheath

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Increasing excitatory signals above the threshold for neural activation will not affect the intensity of an action potential. This indicates that a neuron's reaction is..

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An all or none response

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Heritability

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Trait differences among individuals are attributed to genetic variations

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Schizophrenia is most closely linked with excess receptor activity for the neurotransmitter

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Dopamine

Question 28

Which of the following is the component of the limbic system that plays an essential role in the processing of new memories

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Hippocampus

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In transmitting sensory information to the brain, an electrical signal travels from the ... Of a single neuron

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Axon to the cell body to the dendrites

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Which brain area is primarily involved with controlling speech

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Broca's area

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Alzheimer's disease is most closely linked to the deterioration of neuron that produces...

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Acetylcholine

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Which type of neuron carries messages to the brain

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Sensory

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The threadlike structures that contain genes are called...

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Chromosomes

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Thalamus

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Relays information from the eyes to the visual cortex

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Which region of the brain will a fMRI show as active when a person is looking at a photo

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Occipital lobes

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When the release of ACh is blocked, the result is...

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Muscular paralysis

Question 37

The auditory hallucinations experienced by people with schizophrenia are most closely linked with the activation of areas in which brain area

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Temporal lobes

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Refractory period

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Positively charged ions are pumped back outside a neural membrane