Physio Final, Exam 4

Front 1

The areas of the frontal operculum that is visible on the surface tends to be ___ on the right; the tntire area of the fronal operculum, including that buried in the sulci, tends to be _ on the right

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larger; smaller

Front 2

Iproniazid is to imipramine as

Back 2

MAO inhibihotor is to tricyclic antidepressant

Front 3

Disorders characterezed by extreme feelings of anxiety and severe stress responses in the absence of an apparent precipitating stimulus are classified as

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generalized anxiety disorders

Front 4

The left hemispere is dominant for speech in

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nearly all right handers and the majority of left handers

Front 5

The goal of the second of the three phases of human clinical trials is

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Identifying the most effective doses and schedules of treament

Front 6

Symptoms such as blunt affect, catanoia, and poverty of speech are

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negative symptoms of schizophrenia

Front 7

The concordance rates for affective disorders are

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bipolar disorders and monozygotic twins

Front 8

A key point of the incentive-sensitization theory of addiction is that

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although the anticipated pleasurable effects of addicted drugs increase as teh reslut of drug use, their actual pleasurable effects do not

Front 9

Which of the followign drugs in high doses produces a syndrome of psychotic behavior that is similar to paranoid schizophrenia

Back 9

cocaine

Front 10

Which neurtortransmitter has been most often implicated in anxiety disorders because of the effects of benzodiazepines

Back 10

norepinephrine

Front 11

The right hemisphere has been shown to be superior to the left in several respects; the three best documented are

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spatial ability, emotion, and musical ability

Front 12

The first two antischizzophrinic drugs where

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chlorpromazine and reserpine

Front 13

According to the conditioned drug tolerance paradigm, heroin users are more likley to die from an overdose when they

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take heroin in an environment which they have never taken it before

Front 14

Dyslexics in whom the phonetic procedure is disrupted while the lexical procedure remains normal are said to have

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deep dyslexia

Front 15

Psychoactive drugs are those that affect

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all of the above

Front 16

Which of the following structures was found to be larger in the left hemi in about 65 percent of human brains

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the planum temporale

Front 17

In general, conventional neuropleptics tend to be more effective agains

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positive schizophrenice symptoms

Front 18

Lithium has often been used as a treatement of

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bipolar effective disorder

Front 19

Withdrawla from which of the following drugs produces convulsions

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alcohol

Front 20

Labratory animals self-administer microinjections of addictive drugs directly into the

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nucleus accumbens

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opiates likely exert their psychoactive effects by binding to

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opiate receptros

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Tolerance that occurs because the target tissue becomes less reactive to the drug after exposrue is

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functional tolerance

Front 23

According to the cognitive neuroscience appraoch to the study of language

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both AB

Front 24

An estimated ___ percent of individuals will suffer from an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives

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17

Front 25

Clozapine

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both AB

Front 26

During the conventional dichotic listening test, most subjects correctly report

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more of the digits presented to the right ear

Front 27

Bavalier et all used a particulary sensitive fMRI procedure to study reading. They found that

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all of the above

Front 28

Which of the following symptoms is not typically associated with anxiety disorders

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hypertension

Front 29

Depression, ansxiety, restlessness, irritability, constipation, and dificulties in sleeping and concentrating are the major _________ withdrawal symptoms

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nicotine

Front 30

The direct health hazards of addiction to _____ are rleatively minor; they include consitipation, pupil constriction, menstral irregularity, and reduced sex drive

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opiates

Front 31

There seem to be two different procedures for readind aloud. The procedure that is based on stored information about the pronunciation of specific written words is called the ______ procedure

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lexical

Front 32

According to the text, addicts are drug users who

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continue to use a drug despite the drug's adverse effects on their health and social life, and despite their efforts to stop

Front 33

Italian speakers are less likely than English speakers to be diagnosed with dyslexia becasue

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Italian has fewer phonemes

Front 34

Evidence suggests that naming of different categories of nouns-- such as faces, animals, or tools-- is each mediated by a different part of the

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temporal lobe

Front 35

In functional brain-imaging studies of Tourette patients who are suppressing their tics, abnormal activity has been consistently observed in the prefrotal cortex and

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caudate