Chapter 5
Biopsychology · 5 exercises
Problem 1
Test your comprehension of the chapter with this brief practice test. You can find the answers to these questions as well as more practice tests, activities, and other study resources at www.MyPsychLab.com. A method of measuring the extracellular concentration of particular neurochemicals in the brain is a. cerebral dialysis. b. immunocytochemistry. c. extracellular unit recording. d. intracellular unit recording. e. the 2 -deoxyglucose technique.
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Problem 2
Mice that have had genetic material of another species (e.g., a pathological human gene) inserted into their genome are called a. knockout mice. b. transgenic mice. c. homozygous. d. heterozygous. e. both a and d
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Problem 3
The most widely used test of short-term memory is the a. token test. b. WAIS. c. sodium amytal test. d. digit span test. e. repetition priming test
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Problem 4
The colony-intruder paradigm is commonly used to study a. natural environment. b. spatial perception. c. reproduction. d. epigenetics. e. aggressive and defensive behavior.
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Problem 5
A seminatural animal learning paradigm that is often used to study spatial ability is a. self-stimulation paradigm. b. conditioned defensive burying paradigm. c. radial arm maze. d. Morris water maze. e. both \(c\) and \(d\)
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