🧠Psychology MCQs
Psychology MCQs
482 MCQs171
Pervez has profound difficulty producing spoken language. if his problem attributable to brain damage would probably be found in:
Athe cerebellum
BSperry’s area
CBroca’s area
DWernicke’s area
172
Jim just barely avoided a head-on collision on a narrow road. with heart pounding, hands shaking, and body perspiring, Jim recognizes that these are signs of the body’s fight of the body’s fight-or-flight response, which is controlled by the:
Aempathetic division of the peripheral nervous system
Bparasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system
Csomatic division of the peripheral nervous system
Dsympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system
173
The highest form of learning is:
AImprinting
BLatent learning
CInsight learning
DConditioned reflex type I
174
A neural impulse is initiated when neuron’s charge momentarily becomes less negative or even positive. This event is called:
Aan action potential
Ba resting potential
Cimpulse facilitation
Dinhibitory
175
Neurons convey information about the strength of stimuli by varying:
Athe size of their action potentials
Bthe velocity of their action potentials
Cthe rate at which of fire action potentials
Dall of the above
176
Alterations in activity at dopamine synapses have been implicated in the development of:
Aanxiety
Bschizophrenia
CAlzheimer’s disease
Dnicotine addiction
177
According to sociobiological explanations from sexual behavior, women seek out partners who will provide the most______.
ADNA
BSex
CParental investment
DSexual investment
178
Current research considers human sexual behavior to be motivated by what factors in the brain?
AExternal sensory stimuli and organism’s internal state
BPre-optic area and estrogen
CInterpersonal attraction and financial stability
DIntelligence and physical attractiveness
179
Which of the following are actual factors confirming the involvement of the preoptic area in the control of male sexual behavior?
ALesions of the preoptic area can elicit copulatory activity
BElectrical stimulation of the preoptic area can permanently abolish male sexual behavior
CNeuronal and metabolic activity is induced the preoptic area during copulation
DSmall implants of the female hormone estrogen into the preoptic area restore sexual behavior is castrated rats
180
The pleasantness of touch is located in the_________.
AHuman orbitofrontal cortex
BHuman renin-angiotensin system
CHuman hypothalamus
DPeacock hypothalamus