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50 multiple choice questions covering the second half of the course:

• 20 questions are based on the text
• 15 questions are based on the lectures
• 15 questions are based on Sites to Visit

30 multiple choice questions covering the entire course.  Some of these questions will be very general in nature and will not require specific knowledge and some will be a bit more specific.

Objectives
 

The Nervous System

Compare/contrast the different classes of neurons.

Identify the location and function of brainstem, thalamus, cerebellum, basil ganglia, amygdala, hippocampus, hypothalamus, the four lobes of the cerebral cortex, and the corpus callosum.

Understand the hierarchical organization of the nervous system as it relates to movement and to catching an object.

Compare/contrast the damage and loss of function accompanying Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia.

Recognize how methods of brain imaging help us understand brain function.

Recognize the relative importance of different brain structures for sustaining life, for human functioning, and for human cognition.

Understand how drug tolerance and withdrawal symptoms can be explain in terms of physiological adaptation.

Compare/contrast the actions of morphine and cocaine.

Recognize symptoms of addiction to and withdrawal from morphine and cocaine.

Recognize how excitatory and inhibitory processes work in transmission across the synapse.

Recognize how neurons work in systems and how this is a Canadian contribution to knowledge.

Identify asymmetries in the function of the cerebral hemispheres.

Recognize empirical evidence for asymmetry in language function.
 

Mechanisms of Motivation, Sleep, and Emotion

Define motivation.

Relate the concept of homeostasis to the concept of drive.

Compare and contrast the different perspectives on the function of sleep.

Identify good sleep-related practices.

Compare/contrast REM and slow-wave sleep.

Identify different functions of slow-wave sleep.

Identify different function of REM sleep.

Identify the functions served by different brain regions in sleep.

Define arousal.

Define the Yerkes-Dodson Law.

Recognize the relationship between arousal and performance.

Evaluate different test anxiety reducing strategies with respect to the Yerkes-Dodson Law of arousal.

Define emotion.

Identify the function of emotion.

Identify the functions served by the primitive brain, the limbic system, and the cortex in emotion.

Recognize how the different brain areas work together in emotion.

Recognize physiological affects of emotion.

Identify ways in which emotion may affect memory.

Compare/contrast emotion and affect.
 

Pain and Hearing

Identify the common anatomical elements of senses.

Define transduction, coding, and sensory adaptation.

Identify the functions of the outer, middle, and inner ear.

Describe how transduction occurs in the inner ear.

Define the traveling wave theory.

Describe how the traveling wave theory can account for different types of hearing loss.

Describe auditory masking.

Describe processes involved in locating sounds.

Compare/contrast the structures and functions of C, A, and A-delta pain fibers.

Describe the sensation of and responses to pain.

Describe the gate-control theory of pain.

Recognize examples of top-down and bottom-up processes in pain perception.

Recognize the ways in which different pain treatments affect the pain gate.
 

Vision

Identify the functions of the cornea, iris, lens, retina, cones, and rods.

Contrast the trichromatic and opponent-process theories of color vision.

Describe different forms of color blindness.

Recognize different colors combinations and contrasts that can be used to design a color-blind friendly Christmas Web page.

Describe receptive fields.

Recognize components of Treisman's theory of feature identification.

Apply Treisman's feature identification theory to account for early reading problems.

Compare/contrast Treisman's theory of feature identification for vision with the fuzzy logic model of speech perception.

Recognize examples of phonemes and morphemes.

Distinguish the different components of speech perception.

Describe the functional significance of the McGurk effect.

Recognize how errors in speech perception can affect spelling.

Speculate on origins of different types of spelling errors.

Recognize examples of Gestalt principles of grouping.

Recognize evidence for Biederman's recognition-by-components theory of object recognition.

Describe the process by which stereograms provide illusions of depth.
 

Memory

Define iconic and echoic memory.

Recognize the function of the components of working memory.

Identify the functions of attention, encoding, and retrieval processes.

Recognize the values of and examples of rehearsal, elaboration, organization, and visualization.

Describe short term memory strategies and their function.

Describe long term memory encoding strategies and their function.

Recognize examples of encoding specificity, context-dependent memory, and state-dependent memory.

Describe how retrieval involves the reconstruction of memory.

Identify practical implications of reconstructive processes.

Distinguish components of explicit and implicit memory.

Compare/contrast implicit and explicit memory.

Describe the function of implicit memory.

Define priming.

Recognize examples of perceptual and conceptual priming.
 

Reading the Research

Recognize examples of different levels of processing.

Predict effects, on long term memory, of deep and shallow processing of information.

Identify Balch's (1998) research questions.

Recognize the importance of Balch's (1998) research for theory and for your preparation for the final exam in this course.

Identify the research design that Balch (1998) used.

Identify the measures Balch (1998) used.

Consider the ethical ramifications of Balch's (1998) research.

Identify the results Balch (1998) obtained.
 
 

General Objectives

Define psychology.

Recognize the importance of an evolutionary perspective on psychology.

Identify components of the research process.

Identify sections of a report of empirical research.

Recognize the importance of understanding the mechanisms of behaviour for understanding psychology.

Recognize ways in which behaviour is organized within the nervous system.

Recognize processes by which we acquire, understand, organize, and store information.
 
 

Sample Questions

The Gray Website has excellent sample questions.  Work on them for each chapter.  You can also study using the concept maps and the flashcards.