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420+ Physiological Psychology Solved MCQs

These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Science in Counselling Psychology (BSc Counselling Psychology) .

101.

Testosterone is

A. an androgen
B. an estrogen
C. a progestin
D. a monoamine
Answer» A. an androgen
102.

The part of the brain that interacts most importantly with the sex hormones in the regulation of sexual behaviour is the

A. hypothalamus
B. cortex.
C. thalamus
D. medulla
Answer» A. hypothalamus
103.

------------------- is the tendency to eat in response to negative emotions.

A. Binge eating
B. Emotional eating
C. Dieting
D. Over eating
Answer» B. Emotional eating
104.

Feeding center is a group of cells in the _______________that when stimulated cause a sensation of hunger.

A. lateral hypothalamus
B. cerebral cortex
C. mid brain
D. ventromedial hypothalamus
Answer» A. lateral hypothalamus
105.

A chronic lack of nutritious food can cause various illnesses, and will eventually lead to ______________.

A. Depression
B. Misfunction
C. Starvation
D. Suppression
Answer» C. Starvation
106.

Damage to the lateral hypothalamus may lead to a condition known as ______________.

A. Anorexia nervosa
B. Bulimia
C. Frölich\s syndrome
D. Cohen syndrome
Answer» C. Frölich\s syndrome
107.

________________also determine food intake in the long-term and are important in maintaining energy balance over a nutritionally significant interval.

A. Metabolic signals
B. Cephalic signals
C. Gastrointestinal signals
D. Intestinal signals
Answer» A. Metabolic signals
108.

Russek first proposed the ____________as a site where changes in metabolism are detected to control feeding behavior,

A. Intestine
B. Liver
C. Thalamus
D. Hormone
Answer» B. Liver
109.

The _______________is a key hypothalamic nucleus in the regulation of appetite.

A. CART
B. NPY
C. ARC
D. PVN
Answer» C. ARC
110.

Lesioning of the __________________reduces bodyweight.

A. LHA
B. MCH
C. VMN
D. NPY
Answer» A. LHA
111.

The __________________has also recently been described as the site of a novel hypothalamic appetite-regulatory circuit involving triiodothyronine (T3).

A. LHA
B. MCH
C. VMN
D. NPY
Answer» C. VMN
112.

The ______________ postulates that certain ethnic groups may be more prone to obesity in an equivalent environment.

A. Glucostatic hypothesis
B. lipostatic hypothesis
C. Russek’s studies
D. Thrifty gene hypothesis
Answer» D. Thrifty gene hypothesis
113.

______________is produced by adipose tissue to signal fat storage reserves in the body, and mediates long-term appetitive controls,

A. Leptin
B. Ghrelin
C. Orexin
D. PYY 3-36
Answer» A. Leptin
114.

Excessive thirst, known as polydipsia, along with excessive urination, known as polyuria, may be an indication of ___________.

A. Renal problems
B. Diabetes
C. Starvation
D. seizures
Answer» B. Diabetes
115.

_______________________sense a decreased blood volume, and signal to area postrema and nucleus tractus solitarius as well.

A. Arterial baroreceptors
B. Subfornical organ
C. renin angiotensin system (RAS)
D. Cardiopulmonary receptors
Answer» D. Cardiopulmonary receptors
116.

The stages of sleep were first described in 1937 by ______________________.

A. Alfred Lee Loomis
B. Edward Adolph
C. Clark Hull
D. Jenny Craig
Answer» A. Alfred Lee Loomis
117.

Cortical ablation effects on learning and retention was studies by--------------

A. Watson
B. Woodworth
C. Johnson
D. Lashley
Answer» D. Lashley
118.

The principle of--------------action states that the cortex acts as a whole in learning.

A. Cell
B. Neuron
C. Unit
D. Mass
Answer» D. Mass
119.

Emotion was a conscious state that resulted from sensed emotional behaviour and visceral reaction:

A. Cannon-Bard
B. William James
C. Young
D. Arnold
Answer» A. Cannon-Bard
120.

-----------------and--------------have proposed that emotional behaviour and experience are initiated by the cortex and merely carried out by the hypothalamus.

A. Cannon and Bard
B. Freeman and Arnold
C. Papez and Arnold
D. James and Lange
Answer» B. Freeman and Arnold
121.

--------suggested a circuit from the entorbinal cortex to the hippocampus, then to hypothalamus via the fornix, from there to the anterior thalamus, and finally to the cingulated gyrus involved in emotional experience.

A. Schacter
B. Cannon
C. James
D. Papez
Answer» D. Papez
122.

An instruments that measures several emotional responses controlled by the ANS:

A. Ergograph
B. Polygraph
C. Tathistoscope
D. Mayograph
Answer» B. Polygraph
123.

-------is the oldest areas of the cerebral cortex, originally devoted to smell

A. Paleocortex
B. amydala
C. Premotor area
D. Perelymph
Answer» A. Paleocortex
124.

--------------is a hypersexed behaviour resulted from bilateral removal of the temporal lobes

A. Hysteria
B. Hypoglycemia
C. Kliver-Bucy syndrome
D. Myopia
Answer» C. Kliver-Bucy syndrome
125.

The role of hippocampus on short term memory was studies by-----------------

A. Penfield
B. Pilzeck
C. Russel
D. Pavlov
Answer» A. Penfield
126.

----------------conducted that consolidation is a “time-dependent process that is essential to the formation of long-term memory”

A. Russel
B. Muller
C. Penfield
D. McGaugh
Answer» C. Penfield
127.

--------------model proposed that interference patterns among the firing or slow potentials of many cells forms the mechanism by means of which memories are impressed and expressed.

A. Axon
B. Consolidation
C. Fundav
D. Hologram
Answer» D. Hologram
128.

The concept that phylogenetically newer and more complex parts of the brain take over, or dominate, the functioning of older parts of the brain, is termed as:

A. Encephalization
B. habituation
C. consolidation
D. perseveration
Answer» A. Encephalization
129.

---------------is the removal of part of brain

A. Delation
B. Ablation
C. Lesion
D. Ageutia
Answer» B. Ablation
130.

-----------------fibers connecting the cerebral hemispheres, such as those of the corpus collosum and anterior and posterior

A. Corpus striatum
B. Commissural
C. Coccygeal
D. Gaglion
Answer» B. Commissural
131.

---------------are the striped bodies; subcortical centers within the cerebral hemispheres, consisting of alternating layers of gray and white matter

A. Corpus striatum
B. Corpus luteum
C. Commissural fibers
D. Corpus collosum
Answer» A. Corpus striatum
132.

Sickled -shaped band of crossing nerve fibers that connect the cerebral hemispheres, is

A. Corticobulbar tract
B. Corpus striatum
C. Corpus Callosum
D. Corpus luteum
Answer» C. Corpus Callosum
133.

-----is the principle that any part of the cortex can serve as well as any other part in learning.

A. Two-phase
B. Purkinjee
C. Parkinson’s
D. Equipotentiality
Answer» D. Equipotentiality
134.

Impairment in language skills, usually caused by brain damage is;

A. Aphagia
B. Aphasia
C. Alaxia
D. Amensia
Answer» C. Alaxia
135.

Loss of attention to a stimulus caused by repetition, or lack of novelty, is

A. Gastrula
B. Habituation
C. Hypoxia
D. Cupula
Answer» B. Habituation
136.

Experimental studies in visceral and glandular conditioning put forth by

A. Pavlov
B. Skinner
C. Neal Miller
D. Watson
Answer» C. Neal Miller
137.

According to the ---hypothesis, the process of laying down a permanent memory trace that is caused by perseveration of neural activity after practice

A. Two-phase
B. Single-phase
C. Conduction
D. Reflex model
Answer» A. Two-phase
138.

The process of laying down a permanent memory trace that is caused by preservation

A. Convergence
B. Consolidation
C. Correlation
D. Contraction
Answer» B. Consolidation
139.

------------is the brain activity that follows practice, is the basis for immediate memory.

A. Contraction
B. Perseveration
C. Conduction
D. Posttatanic
Answer» B. Perseveration
140.

An instrument that measures several emotional responses such as the GSR, breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure;

A. Pneumograph
B. Myograph
C. Polygraph
D. Pilomotor
Answer» C. Polygraph
141.

-------aphasia results from damage to a specific area of th left frontal lobe, just anterior to the lower end

A. Wernicker’s
B. Gazzaniga’s
C. Broca’s
D. Bartlett’s
Answer» C. Broca’s
142.

According to---------theory, diffuse sympathetic discharge prepares an animal for fight or flight, both highly emotional responses.

A. Central
B. Cognitive
C. Evolutionary
D. Emergency
Answer» D. Emergency
143.

--------------argues emotion was a conscious state that resulted from sensed emotional behaviour and visceral reactions.

A. William James
B. J. B. Watson
C. P. T. Young
D. Arnold
Answer» A. William James
144.

Activation Theory of emotion was proposed by

A. J.
B. Watson (b) Arnold
C. P. T. Young
D. Lindsley
Answer» D. Lindsley
145.

Central theory of emotion was proposed by

A. William James
B. Young
C. Canon
D. Aronold
Answer» C. Canon
146.

The central nervous system is composed of _______ and spinal cord

A. Cerebellum
B. Brain
C. Cerebral hemispheres
D. Cranial nerves
Answer» B. Brain
147.

Peripheral nervous system is connected to the central nervous system and most of these connections are made via

A. Spinal cord.
B. Cranial nerves
C. Medulla
D. Pons
Answer» A. Spinal cord.
148.

Which part of nervous system responsible for "vegetative" processes?

A. Somatic nervous system
B. Autonomic nervous system (ANS)
C. Central nervous system
D. Sympathetic nervous system
Answer» B. Autonomic nervous system (ANS)
149.

Cranial nerves are part of ---------------

A. Spinal cord
B. peripheral nervous system
C. Central nervous system
D. Sympathetic nervous system
Answer» B. peripheral nervous system
150.

Function of optic nerve is

A. Controls muscles of the eye
B. Carrying information from the eyes to the brain
C. Carrying information about smell to the brain
D. Carries information from the inner ear to the brain
Answer» B. Carrying information from the eyes to the brain

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