Psychology
Question: The vocal apparatus for producing speech sounds are useless unless the organism has which area in its brain developed in order to coordinate these movements?
- 1. hypothalamus
- 2. thalamus
- 3. Broca’s area
- 4. fissure of Ronaldo
Question: Damage to hippocampus would result in difficulty ____________?
- 1. understanding language
- 2. producing language
- 3. encoding new information into long-term memory
- 4. processing sensory information
Question: In human females, the primary sex hormones are _____________?
- 1. testosterone and androgen
- 2. progesterone and estrogen
- 3. testosterone and estrogen
- 4. progesterone and testosterone
Question: Receptors are generally referred to as chemicals are ___________?
- 1. visual and auditory
- 2. auditory and temperature
- 3. gustation and olfaction
- 4. temperature and pressure
Question: A physical stimulus is converted into a neural impulse by a process ____________?
- 1. transposition
- 2. transduction
- 3. transition
- 4. transference
Question: The dominant hemisphere of the brain ___________?
- 1. controls the non-dominant hand
- 2. adept at spatial tasks
- 3. works independently of non-dominant hemisphere
- 4. controls the expression and comprehension of language
Question: A term completely describing muscles and glands is ____________?
- 1. receptors
- 2. effectors
- 3. innervates
- 4. affectors
Question: The gland of the body serve as ___________?
- 1. effectors
- 2. receptors
- 3. afferent nerves
- 4. efferent verves
Question: The thalamus serves which of the following functions?
- 1. relay center from spinal cord to cerebrum
- 2. regulate external expression of emotion
- 3. relay center for sensory impulses
- 4. all of the above
Question: _____________ is credited with first inferring the existence of synapses?
- 1. Johannes Muller
- 2. Franz Gall
- 3. William James
- 4. Charles Sherrington