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Professional Development
Biology and Psychology - Chapter 2
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- 1. Multiple Choice
All of the following are parts of the brain except...
Thalamus
Cerebrum
Cerebellum
Bronchi
- 2. Multiple Choice
The boxer Muhammad Ali and actor Michael J. Fox are two better-known individuals afflicted with...
Alzheimer's Disease
Dementia
Parkinson's Disease
Scoliosis
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is aphasia?
A disruption in an individual's balance.
A disruption of the ability to understand or produce language.
A disruption in vision.
A disruption in the ability to create long and short term memories.
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is the "normal" number of chromosomes an individual should have?
23
36
46
3
- 5. Multiple Choice
The ________ is made up of structures that include the amygdala, the hippocampus, and parts of the hypothalamus.
Cerebral Cortex
Endocrine System
Limbic System
Solar System
- 6. Multiple Choice
What percentage of species that ever lived are now extinct?
99.99%
25%
12.5%
50%
- 7. Multiple Choice
What percentage of genes are shared by monozygotic twins?
100%
50%
25%
12.5%
- 8. Multiple Choice
What percentage of genes are shared by first cousins?
100%
50%
25%
12.5%
- 9. Multiple Choice
What percentage of genes are shared between siblings?
100%
50%
25%
12.5%
- 10. Multiple Choice
What percentage of genes do parents and children have in common?
100%
50%
25%
12.5%
- 11. Multiple Choice
Down syndrome is caused by an extra chromosome on the _____ pair and becomes more likely to occur as the mother's age at the time of pregnancy increases.
20th
21st
22nd
23rd
- 12. Multiple Choice
The branch of psychology that studies the ways in which adaptation and natural selection are connected with mental processes and behavior.
Behavioral Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology
Social Psychology
Exercise Psychology
- 13. Multiple Choice
A stereotyped pattern of behavior that is triggered by a particular stimulus and nearly identical among members of a species, even when they are reared in isolation.
Mutation
Aphasia
Pons
Instinct
- 14. Multiple Choice
This part of the brain is involved in the regulation of heart rate, blood pressure, respiration and circulation.
Thalamus
Corpus Callosum
Medulla
Cerebellum
- 15. Multiple Choice
Neurons transmit messages to other neurons by means of chemical substances called __________.
Axons
Myelin
Neurotransmitters
Atoms
- 16. Multiple Choice
The axons of many neurons have a fatty insulating sheath called ___________.
Myelin
Axon
Gene
Dendrite
- 17. Multiple Choice
It is theorized that people with the psychological disorder called __________ apparently overutilize the neurotransmitter dopamine.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Schizophrenia
Bipolar Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- 18. Multiple Choice
The behavior of _____________ twins is of special interest to psychologists because their genetic endowment is the same.
Fraternal
Monozygotic
Minnesota
None of the above
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