Chapter 1 Quiz

Question 1

The ability of the nervous system to change in response to experience or the environment is known as

Answer 1

Neuroplasticity

Question 2

The state of awareness of one’s own existence, thoughts, emotions, and experiences is the book’s definition of

Answer 2

consciousness

Question 3

True or False: Ancient Egyptians discarded the brain of the person being mummified, believing that the source of all mental capacities was somewhere else.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Neuroscience is the study of the ____________ system

Answer 4

nervous

Question 5

In the 19th century, phrenologists proposed they could describe a person’s personality by studying ____________________________. This was later shown to be a pseudoscience with no basis in fact.

Answer 5

the bumps on their head

Question 6

Evolutionary psychology examines how ____________________ has shaped behavior in humans and other animals.

Answer 6

natural selection

Question 7

True/False: Factors such as stress or neglect can lead to lasting inactivation of certain genes throughout a lifetime. The study of factors that affect gene expression without making changes in the nucleotide sequence of the genes themselves is called epigenetics.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

True or False: Behavioral neuroscience is known as reductionist studies.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

True or False: Behavioral neuroscience is also known as all of following: biological psychology, brain & behavior, and physiological psychology

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Biological psychology is studied using various types of interventions including behavioral and somatic. Keeping in mind that “soma” always means “body”, which of the below would be considered a somatic intervention?

Answer 10

Destroying a part of a rat’s brain to observe the effect on behavior

Question 11

A ___________________ is defined as a measure that shows how closely changes in one variable are associated with changes in another variable.

Answer 11

correlation

Question 12

True/False: Reductionism is a scientific strategy of breaking a system down into increasingly smaller parts in order to understand it.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

In experiments, a(n) __________________ variable is manipulated to see its effects on the _________________ variable.

Answer 13

independent; dependent