UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION (2011 Admn. onwards) IV Semester Complementary Course for B.Sc Counselling Psychology PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY Question Bank & Answer Key Choose the correct Answer from the bracket. 1. ------------------- is the tendency to eat in response to negative emotions. a. Binge eating b. Emotional eating c. Dieting d. Over eating 2. 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 3. A chronic lack of nutritious food can cause various illnesses, and will eventually lead to. a. Depression b. Misfunction c. Starvation d. Suppression 4. Damage to the lateral hypothalamus may lead to a condition known as. a. Anorexia nervosa b. Bulimia c. Frölich's syndrome d. Cohen syndrome 5. 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 6. 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 IV Sem. Physiological Psychology Page 1
7. The is a key hypothalamic nucleus in the regulation of appetite. a. CART b. NPY c. ARC d. PVN 8. Lesioning of the reduces bodyweight. a. LHA b. MCH c. VMN d. NPY 9. 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 10. 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 11. 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 12. 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 13. 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 14. Psychologists classify as a drive, a basic compelling urge that motivates action. a. Starving b. Thirst c. Hunger d. Sleep 15. The stages of sleep were first described in 1937 by. a. Alfred Lee Loomis b. Edward Adolph c. Clark Hull d. Jenny Craig IV Sem. Physiological Psychology Page 2
16. Cortical ablation effects on learning and retention was studies by-------------- (a) Watson (c) Johnson (b) Woodworth (d) Lashley 17. The principle of--------------action states that the cortex acts as a whole in learning. (a) Cell (c) Unit (b) Neuron (d) Mass 18. Emotion was a conscious state that resulted from sensed emotional behaviour and visceral reaction: (a) Cannon-Bard (c) Young (b) William James (d) Arnold 19. -----------------and--------------have proposed that emotional behaviour and experience are initiated by the cortex and merely carried out by the hypothalamus. (a) Cannon and Bard (c) Papez and Arnold (b) Freeman and Arnold (d) James and Lange 20. --------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 (c) James (b) Cannon (d) Papez 21. An instruments that measures several emotional responses controlled by the ANS: (a) Ergograph (c) Tathistoscope (b) Polygraph (d) Mayograph 22. -------is the oldest areas of the cerebral cortex, originally devoted to smell (a) Paleocortex (b) amydala (c) Premotor area (d) Perelymph 23. --------------is a hypersexed behaviour resulted from bilateral removal of the temporal lobes (a) Hysteria (b) Hypoglycemia (c) Kliver-Bucy syndrome (d) Myopia IV Sem. Physiological Psychology Page 3
Match the following 24. Emergency theory - (a) Pavlov 25. Glandular conditioning - (b) Russel 26. Retroactive inhibition - (c) Meat Miller 27. Random brain activity - (d) Cannon 28. Classical conditioning - (e) Muller and Pilzecter 29. The role of hippocampus on short term memory was studies by----------------- (a) Penfield (b) Pilzeck (c) Russel (d) Pavlov 30. ----------------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 31. --------------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 32. 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 33. Physical changes in the brain that are presumed to result from learning (a) Engram (b) Floral (b) End feet (d) Cupula 34. ---------------is the removal of part of brain (a) Delation (b) Ablation (c) Lesion (d) Ageutia IV Sem. Physiological Psychology Page 4
35. -----------------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 36. ---------------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 37. 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 38. -----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 39. Impairment in language skills, usually caused by brain damage is; (a) Aphagia (b) Aphasia (c) Alaxia (d) Amensia 40. Loss of attention to a stimulus caused by repetition, or lack of novelty, is (a) Gastrula (b) Habituation (c) Hypoxia (d) Cupula 41. Experimental studies in visceral and glandular conditioning put forth by (a) Pavlov (b) Skinner (c) Neal Miller (d) Watson 42. 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 43. The process of laying down a permanent memory trace that is caused by preservation (a) Convergence (b) Consolidation (c) Correlation (d) Contraction IV Sem. Physiological Psychology Page 5
44. ------------is the brain activity that follows practice, is the basis for immediate memory. (a) Contraction (b) Perseveration (c) Conduction (d) Posttatanic 45. 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 46. -------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 47. 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 48. --------------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 49. Activation Theory of emotion was proposed by (a) J. B. Watson (b) Arnold (c) P. T. Young (d) Lindsley 50. Central theory of emotion was proposed by (a) William James (b) Young (c) Canon (d) Aronold IV Sem. Physiological Psychology Page 6
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