Practice Test #3

Biopsychology Sample Test #3 1. Which of the following is part of the organ of Corti?a. The ossiclesb. The hair cellsc. The basilar membraned. None of the abovee. Both b and c 2. The superior olives receive most of their input from thea. Medial geniculate nucleib. Superior colliculusc. Inferior colliculusd. Cochlear nucleie. Organ of Corti 3. Low frequencies resonate in thea. Apex of the basilar membraneb. Apex of the tectorial membranec. Base of the basilar membraned. Base of the tectorial membranee. None of the above 4. The auditory cortex is organizeda. By intensity of soundsb. By the time difference between the two earsc. By the spatial location of soundsd. Tonotopicallye. All of the above 5. The effects of damage to the primary motor cortex incluea. Astereoagnosiab. Paralysisc. Apraxiad. Both a and be. All of the above 6. Dorsolateral coroticospinal tract a. is responsible for fine movement controlb. innervates large proximal musclesc. is responsible for gross movement controld. both a and be. none of the above 7. Golgi tendon organ is to muscle spindle asa. Muscle tension is to muscle lengthb. Muscle length is to muscle tensionc. Parallel is to seriesd. Both a and ce. Both b and c 8. Evidence that co-occurrence of firing in pre- and postsynaptic cells is essential for LTP is: a. important because it reflects Hebb?s postulate for learning. b. invalid. c. not true of synapses in the hippocampus. d. only obtained when experiments are done in vivo. 9. HM and RB are both: a. famous biopsychologists. b. beverages. c. epileptics. d. famous patients in biopsychology. 10. The classic test of short-term verbal memory is: a. block-tapping test. b. digit-span test. c. Wisconsin card-sorting task d. repetition priming task. 11. Recent evidence suggests that one advantage to having multiple memory systems is that they: a. are bilateral systems. b. confer greater behavioral flexibility. c. make the brain less susceptible to strokes. d. allow more of the brain to participate in memory. 12. If you have trouble remembering what you had for breakfast this morning, you are displaying: a. anterograde amnesia. b. retrograde amnesia. c. implicit memory. d. a lack of episodic memory.