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Biopsychology: Answers to Quiz 7
1.
In the first half of the 20th century, the results of research on the corpus callosum was paradoxical.
Answer:
Potentially: important (large size, central position). Seemingly: not important (animals with corpus callosum cut and humans born without it seemed normal).
2.
Excessive oral explanation of objects is a symptom of the _______________, which was initially produced in monkeys by the ________________ removal or destruction of the ________________ lobes. Answer:
1. Kluver-Bucy syndrome
2. bilateral
3. anterior portions of temporal 3. _____________ agonists are commonly used in the treatment of both depression and anxiety disorders. Answer: Serotonin 4. Although the sensorimotor system is largely a contralateral system, the _________ hemisphere does exert significant control over the ________ hand, more than the ________ hemisphere exerts over the _________ hand. Answer:
1. left
2. left
3. right
4. right 5. Broca's aphasia is to Broca's area as alexia is to the ________________. Answer: left angualar gyrus 6. Most prevalent of all psychiatric disorders are the ________________. Answer: anxiety disorders 7. The most commonly used behavioural measure of language lateralization in healthy subjects is the _________________ test. Answer: Dichotic Listening 8. Echolalia is a common symptom of both ___________ and ________________. Answer:
1. schizophrenia
2. Tourette's Syndrome 9. After the beginning of human clinical trials of an effective drug, it takes approximately ____ years before the drug can be sold to the public. Answer: 8.5 10. Almost all __________ are left-hemisphere dominant for speech, whereas the majority of __________ are left-hemisphere dominant for speech. Answer:
1. dextrals
2. sinestrals 11. Antihistamine is to schizophrenia as a treatment for tuberculosis is to _______________. Answer: depression 12. _________ is less common in _________ than in England because _________ has fewer, and more consistently spelled, _________ than does _________ . Answer:
1. Developmental dyslexia
2. Italy
3. Italian language
4. phonemes
5. English language 13. _______________ is effective against mania, but at high doses it is used to produced gastrointestinal upset in conditioned taste aversion experiments. Answer: Lithium 14. Bilateral lesions to the auditory cortex disrupt ________________ when the conditional stimuli are complex sounds but not when they are simple tones. Answer: fear conditioning
15. The adrenal cortex is to glucocorticoids as the ________________ is to ACTH. Answer: anterior pituitary 16. _________ cats display ______________ but not if the hypothalamus is also removed. Answer:
1. Decorticate
2. sham rage 17. Although it is not used to treat depression, ________________ has a striking, albeit temporary, therapeutic effect. Answer: sleep deprivation
18. Male rats chronically exposed to ________________ are likely to attack juveniles and tend to have smaller testes, lower levels of testosterone, and shorter life spans. Answer: subordination stress 19. Place each of the following letters next to the correct disorder. a. bipolar
b. basal ganglia
c. tics
d. imipramine
e. atypical neuroleptics
f. benzodiazepines
g. diathesis-stress model
h. waxy flexibility 1. schizophrenia
2. affective disorders
3. anxiety disorders
4. Tourette's syndrome Answer:
1. e, h
2. a, d, g
3. f
4. b, c 20. Handling rat pups has a variety of long-term beneficial effects on their health. These effects appear to be mediated by handling-produced increases in _______________. Answer: maternal grooming
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