Brain And Behavior An Introduction to Biological 4th Edition -Test Bank

Chapter 1

Multiple Choice (Correct answers delineated with *)

1.     The decade of the 1990s was designated as the decade of:

a.     The brain (*)

b.     Behavior

c.     Mind

d.     Cognition

2.     If someone is interested in the relationships between behavior and the body, what area of science do they work in?

a.     Psychobiology

b.     Biopsychology

c.     Physiological psychology

d.     All of these areas are correct. (*)

3.     Neuroscience is the multidisciplinary study of the ____ and its role in behavior:

a.     Brain

b.     Nervous system (*)

c.     Mind

d.     Human psyche

4.     The annual costs of brain disorders and addictions in the United States is an estimated:

a.     100 trillion dollars

b.     500 billion dollars

c.     1 trillion dollars (*)

d.     5 trillion dollars

5.     Psychologists use the term behavior to refer to:

a.     Overt acts

b.     Learning

c.     Emotions

d.     All of the above (*)

6.     Which of the following questions would a biopsychologist be least likely to study?

a.     How does the brain’s activity result in consciousness? (*)

b.     What changes occur in the nervous system when a person learns?

c.     How do people in different cultures view mental illness?

d.     What is the physiological explanation for depression?

7.     If you were able to build a time machine, and wanted to travel back to observe the first psychology laboratory, where would you go?

a.     To Charles Darwin’s office in Germany

b.     To Charles Darwin’s boat in England

c.     To Wilhelm Wundt’s lab in Germany (*)

d.     to Rene Descartes’ apothecary in France

8.     The mind-brain question:

a.     Is concerned with the nature of the mind and its relation to the brain (*)

b.     Was originally posed by early neuroscientists and remains unsolved today

c.     Usually involves a choice between the positions of psychology and philosophy

d.     All of the other alternatives are correct.

9.     The textbook author views the mind as a:

a.     Spirit

b.     Soul

c.     Collection of things the brain does, such as planning and feeling

d.     Concept (*)

10.  Which of the following statements is most consistent with the materialistic monist view of the mind-brain problem?

a.     Both hemispheres of the brain work together.

b.     The brain and the mind are both physical. (*)

c.     Everything is made of matter and energy.

d.     The body is made of matter, whereas the mind is not.

11.  Which of the following statements is most consistent with the dualism view of the mind-brain problem?

a.     Both hemispheres of the brain work together.

b.     The brain and the mind are both physical.

c.     Everything is made of matter and energy.

d.     The body is made of matter, whereas the mind is not. (*)

12.  Which mind-brain view is most likely to be held by a neuroscientist?

a.     Idealistic monism

b.     Dualism

c.     Interactionism

d.     Monism (*)

13.  If you say you are a dualist, you are saying you believe in:

a.     The mind and the spirit

b.     Only the nonmaterial

c.     A mind that is separate from the brain (*)

d.     The body and the brain

14.  If you say you are a monist, you are saying you believe in:

a.     Just the mind

b.     Both the material and the nonmaterial

c.     The brain and mind are composed of the same substance (*)

d.     Just the spiritual