Brain-and-Behavior-An-Introduction-to-Biological-Psychology-4th-Edition

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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 (*)