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__________ won a Nobel Prize for the development of the prefrontal lobotomy as a treatment for mental illness.

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Question 2

The general method that scientists use to study unobservable objects and events is called __________.

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scientific...

Question 3

What do Hubel, Sperry, Axelrod, Moniz, Pavlov, and Golgi have in common? They are all

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A)   biopsychologists.
B)   neuroanatomists.
C)   neuropsychologists.
D)   psychologists.
E)   Nobel Prize winners.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 4

The EEG, or __________ , is commonly recorded from the scalp.

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electroenc...

Question 5

The research of a biopsychologist working for a drug company would likely be

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A)   largely pure.
B)   completely pure.
C)   psychopharmacological.
D)   applied.
E)   both C and DF) All of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 6

Compare experimental and quasiexperimental research.

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Question 7

The corpus callosum is a

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A)   large medical dictionary.
B)   source of hypothalamic hormones.
C)   membership directory of the Society for Neuroscience.
D)   part of the neocortex.
E)   neural pathway that connects the left and right hemispheres.F) D) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 8

The main difference between human brains and the brains of their mammalian relatives is that human brains tend to be bigger and

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A)   whiter.
B)   all gray.
C)   have more cortex.
D)   have two hemispheres.
E)   both C and DF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 9

Scientists study past ice ages, evolution, neural inhibition, gravity, evaporation, and thinking by

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A)   neuroscience.
B)   scientific inference.
C)   generalization.
D)   operational sets.
E)   direct observation.F) A) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 10

The man who played a key role in the emergence of biopsychology as a discipline by writing "The Organization of Behavior" is

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A)   Sperry.
B)   Hebb.
C)   Lashley.
D)   Milner.
E)   Pinel.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 11

Research has now established that the brain is

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A)   static.
B)   immutable.
C)   plastic.
D)   white.
E)   gray.F) B) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 12

Which of the following is the youngest scientific discipline?

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A)   physics
B)   astrology
C)   biology
D)   biopsychology
E)   chemistryF) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 13

Some comparative psychologists study behavior in the laboratory, whereas others conduct

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A)   ethological research.
B)   case studies.
C)   experiments.
D)   applied research.
E)   converging operations.F) C) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 14

Experimental evidence suggests that the brain damage commonly observed in people who consume a lot of alcohol is caused by

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A)   the direct toxic effects of alcohol on the brain.
B)   thiamine deficiency.
C)   vitamin B? deficiency.
D)   all of the above
E)   both A and BF) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 15

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of humans as subjects in biopsychological research.

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Question 16

The cerebral cortex is the outermost layer of the

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A)   brain.
B)   cerebellum.
C)   great cerebral commissure.
D)   cerebral hemispheres.
E)   all of the aboveF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 17

The major method of cognitive neuroscience is

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A)   functional brain imaging.
B)   structural brain imaging.
C)   autonomic nervous system recording.
D)   the ethological approach.
E)   the intelligence test.F) A) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 18

Biopsychology is the scientific study of the

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A)   biology of behavior.
B)   brain.
C)   chemistry of the brain.
D)   biology of the brain.
E)   biology of cognition.F) B) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 19

According to the text, the division of biopsychology that deals generally with the biology of behavior, rather than specifically with the neural mechanisms of behavior, is

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A)   physiological psychology.
B)   psychobiology.
C)   neural biology.
D)   comparative psychology.
E)   none of the aboveF) A) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 20

This drawing illustrates

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A)   Lima's original prefrontal lobotomy.
B)   Moniz's original prefrontal lobotomy.
C)   a transorbital prefrontal lobotomy.
D)   both A and B
E)   both B and CF) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

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