Physiological Psychology Set 5

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This set of Physiological Psychology Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Physiological Psychology Set 5

Q1 | Testosterone is
  • an androgen
  • an estrogen
  • a progestin
  • a monoamine
Answer: an androgen
Q2 | The part of the brain that interacts most importantly with the sex hormones in theregulation of sexual behaviour is the
  • hypothalamus
  • cortex.
  • thalamus
  • medulla
Answer: hypothalamus
Q3 | ------------------- is the tendency to eat in response to negative emotions.
  • Binge eating
  • Emotional eating
  • Dieting
  • Over eating
Answer: Emotional eating
Q4 | Feeding center is a group of cells in the _______________that when stimulated cause asensation of hunger.
  • lateral hypothalamus
  • cerebral cortex
  • mid brain
  • ventromedial hypothalamus
Answer: lateral hypothalamus
Q5 | A chronic lack of nutritious food can cause various illnesses, and will eventually lead to______________.
  • Depression
  • Misfunction
  • Starvation
  • Suppression
Answer: Starvation
Q6 | Damage to the lateral hypothalamus may lead to a condition known as ______________.
  • Anorexia nervosa
  • Bulimia
  • Frölich\s syndrome
  • Cohen syndrome
Answer: Frölich\s syndrome
Q7 | ________________also determine food intake in the long-term and are important inmaintaining energy balance over a nutritionally significant interval.
  • Metabolic signals
  • Cephalic signals
  • Gastrointestinal signals
  • Intestinal signals
Answer: Metabolic signals
Q8 | Russek first proposed the ____________as a site where changes in metabolism aredetected to control feeding behavior,
  • Intestine
  • Liver
  • Thalamus
  • Hormone
Answer: Liver
Q9 | The _______________is a key hypothalamic nucleus in the regulation of appetite.
  • CART
  • NPY
  • ARC
  • PVN
Answer: ARC
Q10 | Lesioning of the __________________reduces bodyweight.
  • LHA
  • MCH
  • VMN
  • NPY
Answer: LHA
Q11 | The __________________has also recently been described as the site of a novelhypothalamic appetite-regulatory circuit involving triiodothyronine (T3).
  • LHA
  • MCH
  • VMN
  • NPY
Answer: VMN
Q12 | The ______________ postulates that certain ethnic groups may be more prone to obesityin an equivalent environment.
  • Glucostatic hypothesis
  • lipostatic hypothesis
  • Russek’s studies
  • Thrifty gene hypothesis
Answer: Thrifty gene hypothesis
Q13 | ______________is produced by adipose tissue to signal fat storage reserves in the body,and mediates long-term appetitive controls,
  • Leptin
  • Ghrelin
  • Orexin
  • PYY 3-36
Answer: Leptin
Q14 | Excessive thirst, known as polydipsia, along with excessive urination, known as polyuria, may be an indication of ___________.
  • Renal problems
  • Diabetes
  • Starvation
  • seizures
Answer: Diabetes
Q15 | _______________________sense a decreased blood volume, and signal to area postrema andnucleus tractus solitarius as well.
  • Arterial baroreceptors
  • Subfornical organ
  • renin angiotensin system (RAS)
  • Cardiopulmonary receptors
Answer: Cardiopulmonary receptors
Q16 | The stages of sleep were first described in 1937 by ______________________.
  • Alfred Lee Loomis
  • Edward Adolph
  • Clark Hull
  • Jenny Craig
Answer: Alfred Lee Loomis
Q17 | Cortical ablation effects on learning and retention was studies by--------------
  • Watson
  • Woodworth
  • Johnson
  • Lashley
Answer: Lashley
Q18 | The principle of--------------action states that the cortex acts as a whole in learning.
  • Cell
  • Neuron
  • Unit
  • Mass
Answer: Mass
Q19 | Emotion was a conscious state that resulted from sensed emotional behaviour andvisceral reaction:
  • Cannon-Bard
  • William James
  • Young
  • Arnold
Answer: Cannon-Bard
Q20 | -----------------and--------------have proposed that emotional behaviour and experience areinitiated by the cortex and merely carried out by the hypothalamus.
  • Cannon and Bard
  • Freeman and Arnold
  • Papez and Arnold
  • James and Lange
Answer: Freeman and Arnold
Q21 | --------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 thecingulated gyrus involved in emotional experience.
  • Schacter
  • Cannon
  • James
  • Papez
Answer: Papez
Q22 | An instruments that measures several emotional responses controlled by the ANS:
  • Ergograph
  • Polygraph
  • Tathistoscope
  • Mayograph
Answer: Polygraph
Q23 | -------is the oldest areas of the cerebral cortex, originally devoted to smell
  • Paleocortex
  • amydala
  • Premotor area
  • Perelymph
Answer: Paleocortex
Q24 | --------------is a hypersexed behaviour resulted from bilateral removal of the temporallobes
  • Hysteria
  • Hypoglycemia
  • Kliver-Bucy syndrome
  • Myopia
Answer: Kliver-Bucy syndrome
Q25 | The role of hippocampus on short term memory was studies by-----------------
  • Penfield
  • Pilzeck
  • Russel
  • Pavlov
Answer: Penfield
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