Psychology Exam Revision Quiz 2

Parkinson's disease is characterised by

• decreased dopamine production and improved muscle movements

• increased dopamine production and improved muscle movements

• decreased dopamine production and impaired muscle movements

• increased dopamine production and impaired muscle movements

While watching a frightening movie is is also likely that

• breathing rate increases and the bladder relaxes

• digestion is stimulated and breathing rate increases

• perspiration is inhibited and breathing rate decreases

• breathing rate decreases and the intestines are stimulated

Which one of the following is a psychological component of the stress response?

• daily life pressures

• changes in heart rate

• secretion of cortisol

• fight-flight-freeze response

The transactional model of stress and coping holds that an event is assessed as stressful, beneficial or irrelevant at the _______________________ stage.

• problem-focused

• emotion-focused

• primary appraisal

• secondary appraisal

The fight-flight-freeze response to a stressor is triggered by the release of which two chemicals?

• noradrenalin and dopamine

• noradrenalin and adrenaline

• acetylcholine and noradrenalin

• acetylcholine and adrenaline

The neural development of newborn babies typically involves

• no neural plasticity

• creation of new muscles

• creation of neural pathways

• a decrease in the number of neural pathways

Sam is a healthy young boy who was involved in a car accident when he was three years old. In the accident he damaged both hippocampi. Since the accident, Sam is likely to have difficulty learning

• to bowl a ball

• to knit for the first time

• the names of people he meets

• to ride a bike without training wheels

The steps in the three-phase process of operant conditioning, in order, are

• the operant, the stimulus to the operant, the consequence of the operant

• discriminative stimulus, consequence of response to stimulus, response to stimulus

• conditioned stimulus, unconditioned stimulus, consequence of response to stimulus

• discriminative stimulus, response to stimulus, consequence of response to stimulus

When Troy met his girlfriend's family for the first time, he wanted to remember their names. To do this he mentally repeated each name in his head over and over again. The process that he used is called

• chunking

• acrostic

• elaborative rehearsal

• maintenance rehearsal

What is a typical change found in the brain of an Alzheimer's sufferer?

• a decrease in the size of the ventricles

• an abnormal increase in the levels of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine

• a build up of both amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles surrounding the neurons

• a decrease in amyloid plaques and an increase in neurofibrillary tangles surrounding the neurons