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Week 09-11
Stephanie Moore
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Question 1

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A neuromuscular junction is a synapse:
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  • Where a sensory axon delivering information from a muscle meets a neuron
  • Where a motor neuron axon meets a muscle fibre
  • Specific to cardiac muscles
  • Where a muscle excites or inhibits a neuron

Question 2

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A person's circadian activity cycle would most likely drift out of phase with the activity of other people if the person:
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  • Lives near the equator, where the seasons do not vary
  • Spends a period of time in seclusion, away from sunlight
  • Habitually eats a big meal just before bedtime
  • Spends a period of time in the wilderness, away from clocks

Question 3

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A proprioceptor is sensitive to the:
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  • Degree of relaxation or concentration of smooth muscle tissue
  • Position and movement of a part of the body
  • Percentage of fibres that are contracting within a muscle bundle
  • Degree of fatigue in a muscle

Question 4

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According to the activation-synthesis hypothesis, what do dreams reflect?
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  • An imbalance among hormone levels
  • Unconscious motivations and emotions
  • Experiences that have been part of the species' evolutionary history
  • The brain's attempt to make sense of spontaneous neural activity

Question 5

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After entering stage 4 for the first time each evening, the sleeper typically ____.
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  • Enters REM
  • Wakes up
  • Cycles back through stages 3 and 2
  • Returns immediately to stage 1

Question 6

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If a hamster in its home territory attacks an intruder, what will the hamster do if a second intruder arrives shortly after the first intruder leaves?
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  • Play with the second intruder
  • Attack the second intruder but less vigorously than the first
  • Withdraw from the second intruder
  • Attack the second intruder quickly and vigorously

Question 7

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The term "serotonin turnover" refers to the amount of serotonin that is:
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  • currently present in the brain
  • released at synapses and resynthesised
  • converted into another transmitter
  • radioactively labelled

Question 8

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During sleep, what happens in the brain?
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  • Decreased firing by dopamine neurons
  • Increased firing in the frontal lobe
  • Increased firing in the parietal lobe
  • Increased firing by GABA neurons

Question 9

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In Parkinson's disease, which pathway in the brain degenerates?
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  • Basal ganglia to cerebellum
  • Substantia nigra to caudate nucleus and putamen
  • Cerebellum to spinal cord
  • Cerebral cortex to spinal cord

Question 10

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In people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the startle response is ___.
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  • the same as in other people
  • generally stronger than in other people
  • generally absent
  • generally weaker than in other people

Question 11

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In the absence of any light, dark, or time cues, human circadian rhythms would:
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  • Cease to exist
  • Become slightly longer than 24 hours
  • Become exactly 24 hours
  • Become much shorter than 24 hours

Question 12

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One of the main differences between natural killer cells and T cells is that natural killer cells:
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  • are cancer cells
  • are more specific in their targets
  • attack several kinds of intruders
  • attack normal tissue

Question 13

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Looking at a picture of people showing emotional expressions causes the greatest activity in the:
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  • Frontal lobe
  • Hippocampus
  • Fornix
  • Amygdala

Question 14

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Movements near the midline of the body, such as bending and turning of the trunk, are controlled by which motor system?
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  • Medial tract
  • Hippocampal
  • Supplementary
  • Dorsolateral tract

Question 15

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One explanation for narcolepsy in humans is:
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  • Excessive alcohol use
  • Damage to the locus coeruleus
  • A genetic loss of basal forebrain neurons
  • A loss of orexin-containing neurons in the hypothalamus

Question 16

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What is a common symptom of Huntington's disease?
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  • Twitches, tremors, and writhing that interfere with voluntary movement
  • Loss of both sensation and motor control in certain limbs
  • Rapid fatigue of the muscles
  • Impairment of saccadic eye movements and rapid alternating movements

Question 17

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Paths from the cerebral cortex to the spinal cord are called the ____.
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  • dorsospinal tracts
  • pyramidalspinal tracts
  • horizontalspinal tracts
  • corticospinal tracts

Question 18

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What is paradoxical about paradoxical/REM sleep?
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  • It is associated with dreaming although brain activity is low
  • It has restorative functions, and yet the boyd has no apparent need for it
  • It is light sleep in some ways and deep sleep in other ways
  • It depends on serotonin for its onset and acetylcholine for its offset

Question 19

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Speaking, piano playing, athletic skills, and other rapid movements would be most impaired by damage to which structure?
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  • Ventromedial hypothalamus
  • Reticular formation
  • Parasympathetic nervous system
  • Cerebellum

Question 20

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The Behavioral Activation System is associated with:
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  • Lack of arousal, decreased action, and pleasant mood
  • Increased attention and arousal, decreased action, and fear or disgust
  • Low to moderate arousal, tendency to approach new objects, and pleasant mood
  • Maximum arousal, increased fear, and negative mood

Question 21

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The amygdala is part of the __.
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  • pyramidal system
  • sympathetic nervous system
  • parasympathetic nervous system
  • limbic system

Question 22

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The branch of the autonomic nervous system that is responsible for preparing the body for intense, vigorous, emergency activity is the
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  • sympathetic nervous system
  • craniosacral nervous system
  • parasympathetic nervous system
  • somatic nervous system

Question 23

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Muscle spindles respond to changes in muscle __; Golgi tendon organs respond to changes in muscle __.
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  • tension; fatigue
  • fatigue; tension
  • stretch; tension
  • tension; stretch

Question 24

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The suprachiasmatic nucleus is found in the ____.
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  • Thalamus
  • Caudate nucleus
  • Substantia nigra
  • Hypothalamus

Question 25

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Watching another person shoot a basketball is most likely to activate __ neurons in the brain of the person who is watching.
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  • Spinal cord
  • Primary motor cortex
  • Ganglion
  • Mirror

Question 26

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Parkinson's disease is caused by degeneration of a pathway of neurons that releases which neurotransmitter?
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  • Serotonin
  • Dopamine
  • Acetylcholine
  • Substance P

Question 27

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Which of the following events would most likely activate the locus coeruleus?
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  • Hearing a bear growl in the woods
  • Walking
  • Taking a nap
  • Daydreaming

Question 28

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Which of the following is NOT common in people with Parkinson’s disease?
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  • Slowness of movements
  • Rigidity and tremors
  • Outbursts of emotion
  • Difficulty initiating voluntary movements

Question 29

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Which of the following is an example of a motor program in a human?
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  • Yawning
  • A teenager learning to drive
  • A baby's first steps
  • Making a list of things to do today

Question 30

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With each succeeding stage of sleep (from 1 to 4):
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  • Slow, large-amplitude waves increase in number
  • Breathing and heart rates increase
  • Brain activity increases
  • Brain waves become smaller
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