Chapter1 Quiz - Psychology 260
Name:______________
1. Which of the following is NOT a compelling reason to study the relationship
between brain and behavior according to the authors?
a. Psychologists like Pavlov and Skinner were interested in the link between
brain and behavior. Their work has greatly influenced psychology.
b. It is now clear that many behavioral disorders can be treated by focusing
on areas of the brain that control those behaviors.
c. To understand development, particularly that of humans, it is important to
study the differences betweens species in behavior and attendant brain
function.
2. Which of the lobes of the brain can be found at the posterior end of the brain?
a. frontal
b. parietal
c. occipital
d. temporal
3. Hold your right hand in a fist and look at it from the side as a model of the
human brain. Beginning with the thumb and proceeding counter-clockwise,
the order of the cerebral lobes is:
a. frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal.
b. temporal, occipital, parietal, frontal.
c. occipital, parietal, temporal, occipital.
d. parietal, occipital, frontal, temporal.
4. Key components of the peripheral nervous system are:
a. the four cerebral lobes
b. the brain and spinal cord.
c. the spinal cord but not the brain.
d. sensory nerves and motor nerves.
5. The feeding behavior of the bird species known as the crossbill is an example
of a(n) ___________ behavior.
a. learned
b. ethological
c. innate
d. vestigial
6. Aristotle is responsible for creating which of the following terms in his
attempts to explain the functioning of the mind?
a. Psyche
b. Id
c. Libido
d. Thanatos
7. The major historical figure associated with dualism is:
a. Aristotle
b. Descartes
c. Charles Darwin
d. Francis Gerard
8. What scholar is credited with being the first to posit the causal relationship
between mind and behavior known as mentalism ?
a. Descartes
b. Hume
c. Bacon
d. Aristotle
9. According to Descartes, the area in the brain most responsible for regulating
behavior was the:
a. pineal body
b. pituitary gland
c. parietal lobe
d. Descartes did not believe the brain was involved in behavior.
10. The philosophy that suggests that rational behavior can be fully explained by
the working of the brain is called:
a. Dualism
b. Mentalism
c. Materialism
d. Liberalism
11. In his work 'On the Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals', this
scholar stated that the reason emotional expressions are similar in humans
and other animals is that these expressions were inherited from a common
ancestor.
a. Wundt
b. Darwin
c. Goodall
d. Lorenz
12. Which of the following ranks in the Linnaean biological classification scheme
is found just below the Phylum designation and just above the Order
designation?
a. Class
b. Genus
c. family
d. Species
13. In terms of nervous system development, which of the following sequences
properly describes how the gradual increase in complexity of nervous
structures manifested itself over the millennia?
a. nerve net, ganglia, segmented nerve trunk, brain
b. ganglia, segmented nerve trunk, brain, nerve net
c. ganglia, nerve net, segmented nerve trunk, brain
d. nerve net, segmented nerve trunk, ganglia, brain
14. Which of the following is considered to be our earliest hominid ancestor?
a. Australopithecus aferensis
b. Homo erectus
c. Homo habilis
d. Australopithecus africanus
15. Of the following, the closest known extinct ancestor for humans is:
a. Homo sapiens
b. Homo erectus
c. Australopithecus africanus
d. Australopithecus robustus
16. Harry Jerison uses his principle of proper mass to support which of the
following ideas?
a. more recently developed hominids are larger than earlier hominids because of
the necessity of greater size for survival
b. male humans are, on average, larger than human females because of the
necessity for physical aggression among males competing for mates.
c. Animals displaying more complex behavior patterns have
need for larger brains.
d. children are unable to understand some cognitive tasks until their brains
develop the necessary size and complexity
17. Encephalization quotient:
a. is the ratio of actual brain size to the expected brain size for an animal.
b. is the ration of the weight of the cerebral cortex to the size of the skull.
c. indicates that people with larger brains are more intelligent than people with
smaller brains.
d. illustrates that individuals with larger brains are more prone to disease.
8. What does Katherine Milton's 1993 study of squirrel monkeys and howler
monkeys tell us about the brain?
a. brain size is larger in new world monkeys than in old world monkeys.
b. primate species that eat fruit have larger brains than primate species than eat
vegetation.
c. smaller monkeys are better able to survive in harsh environments.
d. squirrel monkeys share more DNA with humans than do howler monkeys.
19. An important contribution to the evolution of large brain size in humans was:
a. a change in blood flow, allowing for an increase in the rate of cooling of the
brain.
b. the evolutionary relationship between humans and dolphins
c. the need for human communication and complex reasoning.
d. the eating of meat, leading to better nutrition, with increased brain growth.
20. The relationship between brain size and intelligence:
a. is reinforced by studies of Albert Einstein’s brain
b. is reinforced by studies of the differences between men and women
c. is irrelevant for individuals within a species.
d. is improved with education