2. The part of the brain that interacts most importantly with the sex hormones in the
regulation of sexual behaviour is the
Correct : A. hypothalamus
3. ------------------- is the tendency to eat in response to negative emotions.
Correct : B. Emotional eating
4. Feeding center is a group of cells in the _______________that when stimulated cause a
sensation of hunger.
Correct : A. lateral hypothalamus
5. A chronic lack of nutritious food can cause various illnesses, and will eventually lead to
______________.
Correct : C. Starvation
6. Damage to the lateral hypothalamus may lead to a condition known as ______________.
Correct : C. Frölich\s syndrome
7. ________________also determine food intake in the long-term and are important in
maintaining energy balance over a nutritionally significant interval.
Correct : A. Metabolic signals
8. Russek first proposed the ____________as a site where changes in metabolism are
detected to control feeding behavior,
Correct : B. Liver
9. The _______________is a key hypothalamic nucleus in the regulation of appetite.
Correct : C. ARC
10. Lesioning of the __________________reduces bodyweight.
Correct : A. LHA
11. The __________________has also recently been described as the site of a novel
hypothalamic appetite-regulatory circuit involving triiodothyronine (T3).
Correct : C. VMN
12. The ______________ postulates that certain ethnic groups may be more prone to obesity
in an equivalent environment.
Correct : D. Thrifty gene hypothesis
13. ______________is produced by adipose tissue to signal fat storage reserves in the body,
and mediates long-term appetitive controls,
Correct : A. Leptin
14. Excessive thirst, known as polydipsia, along with excessive urination, known as polyuria, may be an indication of ___________.
Correct : B. Diabetes
15. _______________________sense a decreased blood volume, and signal to area postrema and
nucleus tractus solitarius as well.
Correct : D. Cardiopulmonary receptors
16. The stages of sleep were first described in 1937 by ______________________.
Correct : A. Alfred Lee Loomis
17. Cortical ablation effects on learning and retention was studies by--------------
Correct : D. Lashley
18. The principle of--------------action states that the cortex acts as a whole in learning.
Correct : D. Mass
19. Emotion was a conscious state that resulted from sensed emotional behaviour and
visceral reaction:
Correct : A. Cannon-Bard
20. -----------------and--------------have proposed that emotional behaviour and experience are
initiated by the cortex and merely carried out by the hypothalamus.
Correct : B. Freeman and Arnold
21. --------suggested a circuit from the entorbinal cortex to the hippocampus, then to hypothalamus via the fornix, from there to the anterior thalamus, and finally to the
cingulated gyrus involved in emotional experience.
Correct : D. Papez
22. An instruments that measures several emotional responses controlled by the ANS:
Correct : B. Polygraph
23. -------is the oldest areas of the cerebral cortex, originally devoted to smell
Correct : A. Paleocortex
24. --------------is a hypersexed behaviour resulted from bilateral removal of the temporal
lobes
Correct : C. Kliver-Bucy syndrome
25. The role of hippocampus on short term memory was studies by-----------------
Correct : A. Penfield
26. ----------------conducted that consolidation is a “time-dependent process that is essential to
the formation of long-term memory”
Correct : C. Penfield
27. --------------model proposed that interference patterns among the firing or slow potentials of many cells forms the mechanism by means of which memories are impressed and
expressed.
Correct : D. Hologram
28. The concept that phylogenetically newer and more complex parts of the brain take over,
or dominate, the functioning of older parts of the brain, is termed as:
Correct : A. Encephalization
29. ---------------is the removal of part of brain
Correct : B. Ablation
30. -----------------fibers connecting the cerebral hemispheres, such as those of the corpus
collosum and anterior and posterior
Correct : B. Commissural
31. ---------------are the striped bodies; subcortical centers within the cerebral hemispheres,
consisting of alternating layers of gray and white matter
Correct : A. Corpus striatum
32. Sickled -shaped band of crossing nerve fibers that connect the cerebral hemispheres, is
Correct : C. Corpus Callosum
33. -----is the principle that any part of the cortex can serve as well as any other part in
learning.
Correct : D. Equipotentiality
34. Impairment in language skills, usually caused by brain damage is;
Correct : C. Alaxia
35. Loss of attention to a stimulus caused by repetition, or lack of novelty, is
Correct : B. Habituation
36. Experimental studies in visceral and glandular conditioning put forth by
Correct : C. Neal Miller
37. According to the ---hypothesis, the process of laying down a permanent memory trace
that is caused by perseveration of neural activity after practice
Correct : A. Two-phase
38. The process of laying down a permanent memory trace that is caused by preservation
Correct : B. Consolidation
39. ------------is the brain activity that follows practice, is the basis for immediate memory.
Correct : B. Perseveration
40. An instrument that measures several emotional responses such as the GSR, breathing,
heart rate, and blood pressure;
Correct : C. Polygraph
41. -------aphasia results from damage to a specific area of th left frontal lobe, just anterior to
the lower end
Correct : C. Broca’s
42. According to---------theory, diffuse sympathetic discharge prepares an animal for fight or
flight, both highly emotional responses.
Correct : D. Emergency
43. --------------argues emotion was a conscious state that resulted from sensed emotional
behaviour and visceral reactions.
Correct : A. William James
44. Activation Theory of emotion was proposed by
Correct : D. Lindsley
45. Central theory of emotion was proposed by
Correct : C. Canon
46. The central nervous system is composed of _______ and spinal cord
Correct : B. Brain
47. Peripheral nervous system is connected to the central nervous system and most of these
connections are made via
Correct : A. Spinal cord.
48. Which part of nervous system responsible for "vegetative" processes?
Correct : B. Autonomic nervous system (ANS)
49. Cranial nerves are part of ---------------
Correct : B. peripheral nervous system
50. Function of optic nerve is
Correct : B. Carrying information from the eyes to the brain
51. ---------- of spinal nerves exit the spinal cord
Correct : C. 31 pairs
52. ___________has a major role in the ‘fight or flight’ response
Correct : B. Autonomic nervous system
53. __________helps to maintain bodily homeostasis
Correct : A. Autonomic nervous system
54. polygraph was invented in 1921 by John Augustus Larson
Correct : A. John Augustus Larson
55. _____________is considered as information superhighway
Correct : D. Spinal cord
56. --------------part of CNS manages reflex behavior
Correct : B. Spinal cord
57. In suprasegmental reflex
Correct : C. involves neurons in the brain that influence the reflex activity in the spinal cord
58. -----------is not a part of hindbrain
Correct : C. Thalamus
59. ----------------is considering as little brain
Correct : B. Cerebellum
60. Vision is associated with
Correct : C. Superior colliculi
61. Diencephalon and the telencephalon are the divisions of -----------
Correct : B. Midbrain
62. ------------is named as relay center in the brain
Correct : C. Thalamus
63. ------------- plays an important role in regulating states of sleep and wakefulness
Correct : A. Thalamus
64. ----------- is a major regulatory center for behaviors such as eating, drinking, sex, biorhythms,
and temperature control
Correct : A. Hypothalamus
65. ----------------plays important roles in fear, rage, and aggression
Correct : A. Amygdale
66. Broca’s area is located in --------------
Correct : A. Frontal lobe
67. Wernicke’s area is located in --------------
Correct : C. Temporal lobe
68. Wavelength is perceived by the visual system as -----------------
Correct : D. Color
69. The major interior chamber of the eye is filled with a jellylike substance called
Correct : B. vitreous humor
70. ------------are used for seeing in low light conditions
Correct : D. Rods
71. ------------are helping for color vision
Correct : A. Cones
72. blind spot consists of
Correct : D. no rods and cones
73. fovea composed of
Correct : A. more number of cones
74. is the part of the brain where the optic nerves partially cross
Correct : A. optic chiasma
75. opponent-process theory of color vision is proposed by
Correct : C. Ewald Hering
76. Semicircular canals are involved in which sense?
Correct : A. Auditory
77. The dispute between the place theory and the frequency theory has to do with
the action of the
Correct : A. Basilar Membrane
78. Disruptions of dopamine transmission lead to resting tremors and jerky motor
movements called -----
Correct : A. Parkinson’s disease
79. Motor disturbances in Parkinson's disease can be treated with a drug called-----
Correct : C. L-dopa
80. The endocrine system is the internal communication network in the body, and it
uses chemical messengers called-----
Correct : D. Hormones
81. Which hormone increases body energy and prepare us for ‘Fight or Flight’
response?
Correct : C. Adrenaline
82. Which part is known as the ‘ relay centre’ and transmit almost all the sensory
messages?
Correct : B. Thalamus
83. Which chemical in the following list can act as both a neurotransmitter and a
hormone?
Correct : A. Epinephrine
84. Once hormone has been secreted, it reaches to target organ through
Correct : B. Blood
85. Insulin is an example of
Correct : A. peptides
86. What is a target cell?
Correct : A. Specialized receptor cells that accepts hormones
87. Endocrine glands are called ductless glands because they secrete their
hormones:
Correct : B. directly into the blood
88. Which neurotransmitter is produced by the neurons located in a region of brain
called substantia nigra?
Correct : C. Dopamine
89. Under strong emotions:
Correct : C. Adrenalin is secreted
90. Autocrine action is used to describe a hormone that :
Correct : A. Acts on the cells that released it.
91. Cholecystokinin (CCK) is an example of :
Correct : C. Neurohormones
92. , the receptors within the endocrine gland register that there is enough hormone circulating and turn off production and/or release of any more hormone at some
cut-off point, known as:
Correct : B. Negative feedback
93. Release of oxytosine is an example of
Correct : B. Positive feedback
94. Most of the hormones that circulate around the body are controlled in one
way or another by ----------
Correct : A. Pituitary gland
95. Control of the anterior pituitary is by -----------inputs from the hypothalamus
but the posterior pituitary are controlled by --------input from the hypothalamus.
Correct : A. Hormonal; Neuronal
96. Two hormones which have a significant role at the time of child birth are:
Correct : D. Oxytocin and vasopressin
97. The hormones released by the anterior pituitary are usually stimulating
hormones but one of them acts directly on target cells:
Correct : B. Prolactin
98. glucocorticoids, the mineralocorticoids and the sex steroids are released by
which gland?
Correct : B. Adrenal cortex
99. Sex steroids are involved in:
Correct : C. Secondary sexual charecteristics
100. Diabetic conditions are due to imbalance in the secretion of ------- and ------
-hormones from-----gland.