McqMate
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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