AP Psychology: Unit 1 Biological Bases of Behavior

Creativity is predominately a function of the left half of the brain.

Which letter denotes the retina?

Stage of sleep, often called "paradoxical", in which dreaming, memory storage, and body paralysis occur.

Smell is the only external sense not first rerouted through the thalamus.

Specialized sensory [afferent] receptors for pain are called

Broca's area controls speech production and is in which part of the brain?

Part of the eye that focuses light on the retina through a process called accommodation.

Which best describes the basis of Weber's Law?

SSRIs like Prozac and other anti-depressants have their greatest effect on which process?

Which of the following is most closely related to an action potential?

Which sense allows the body to move in coordinated ways w/o having to look at the various parts of the body as it moves.

Umami is described as the ability to taste the flavor of meat.

Increased heart rate, increased breathing, pupil dilation, and decreased digestion are characteristics of the

Which hormone is most closely associated with fight-flight-freeze?

Which letter represents resting potential?

Afterimages result when certain ganglion cells in the retina are activated while others are not.

Transduction of neural impulses for hearing takes place in the

Correct order of sound from the ear canal to the auditory cortex.

Amplitude of a sound wave determines its pitch.

Hypnogogic sensations occur as one enters NREM-2.

Hormone that signals hunger.

The corpus callosum is most often removed due to which of the following medical conditions?

Which letter represents depolarization?

Which best describes a neural or behavioral characteristic of NREM-3 sleep?

Cocaine and caffeine are in which class of psychoactive drugs?

Hormone most closely associated with social bonding and feelings of attachment.

Which of the following psychoactive drugs slows down the activity of the central nervous system?

Cells that lie in the periphery of the eye and detect shapes and movement, but not color, are called cones.

Alzheimer's and myasthenia gravis are neurological conditions affected most by low levels of

Opioids [such as heroin] work predominately by stimulating the production of which neurotransmitter?

Theory that proposes sleep is necessary to put memories into long-term storage.

Which of the following scanning techniques displays blood flow to the brain (activity) with colored readouts?

Wernicke's area controls speech interpretation and is in which part of the brain?

A light ray with a long wavelength, low frequency, and high amplitude will most likely be perceived as

The minimum intensity of a stimulus needed to detect that stimulus 50% of the time.

The minimum amount of a stimulus needed to detect a change in the intensity of that stimulus is called

Which of the following is a correct color combination according to the opponent process theory?

Which subsystem of the autonomic nervous system is most responsible returning the body to homeostasis [rest and digest]?

Expressive aphasia can result from damage to

Antagonists drugs have their greatest blocking effect on which part(s) of the neuron?

Disorder of the nervous system caused by a depletion of dopamine in the brain.

These specialized neurons carry information from the spinal cord to the brain and back to the spinal cord.

Part of the brain that controls hunger and the release of hormones through the endocrine system.

Speech is predominately a function of the left half of the brain.

Which best describes the influence of agonists drugs?

Theory of sound that states hair cells work together or in succession to help detect higher or lower range pitches.

Part of the retina with the highest density of cones, where visual acuity is best.

Which of the following anatomical structures are most closely related to the vestibular sense?

Prosopagnosia is an experience of sensation in which one system of sensation is experienced through another.

Acetylcholine works with which cluster of nervous system structures to allow for voluntary movement?

Part of the limbic system responsible for the formation of new, explicit memories and 3-D spatial navigation.

Neurotransmitter most closely associated with feelings of pleasure and reward-seeking behavior.

The firing of a neuron when the charge peaks at +40mv.

Damage to parts of the outer or middle ear can lead to which type of deafness?

Which of the following brain-neurotransmitter-hormone clusters share similar functions?

Which letter represents the refractory period?

A CPAP is most often used to treat which sleep disorder?

Which of the following are the 2 major chemical senses?

These specialized neurons carry external information from receptor sites on the body to the spinal cord.

Correct order of light passage through the retina:

Which of the following is a primary function(s) of the right hemisphere of the brain?

According to the trichromatic theory, which color cone detects the shortest wavelengths?