QUESTION 3 In his 1890 text, William James stated that brain biology must be a p

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QUESTION 3

In his 1890 text, William James stated that brain biology must be a part of psychology.

True

False

QUESTION 4

According to James, "no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change." This means that the biology of the entire body (heart rate, respiration, etc.) is related with the mental life.

True

False

QUESTION 5

For James, instinct:

is semi-automatic

is automatic

is voluntary

none of the above

  

QUESTION 6

In his introductory chapter, The Scope of Psychology, James describes work by Goltz that illustrated purposeful behavior in frogs vanishing when the cerebral cortex is destroyed, thus illustrating that purpose exists in the mind.

True

False

QUESTION 7

According to the authors of Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience, fMRI research is misrepresented by science journalism and overzealous neuorscientists.

True

False

QUESTION 8

The history of psychology reveals a series of fads that dominate the attention of the researchers & the public.

True

False

QUESTION 9

Departments of neuroscience, as well as degrees in neuroscience, independent of psychology departments, are becoming common at many universities.

True

False

QUESTION 10

According to the authors of Brainwashed, one of the reasons that people are so drawn to fMRI research is because of its visual nature.

True

False   

QUESTION 11

According to he authors of Brainwashed, the media has a good understanding of what brain images mean.

True

False

QUESTION 12

In 2008, neuroscientists from UCLA successfully predicted that the presidential candidates would be Barack Obama & John McCain.

True

False

QUESTION 13

Science journalists often overstate the reality of scientific research findings.

True

False   

QUESTION 14

University press offices often overstate research findings to gain publicity for their institutions.

True

False

QUESTION 15

The news headline, "Love found in the brain" is a scientifically responsible statement.

True

False

QUESTION 16

The more active a brain area is when presented with a stimuli, the more powerful that stimulus is.

True

False

QUESTION 17

According to the authors of Brainwashed, he fad of neuroscience has been called:

neuromania

neurohubris

neurohype

all of these

QUESTION 18

The authors of the reading, Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience are English professors, not scientists.

True

False

QUESTION 19

William James called psychology that explained hate or love as merely reactions of brain areas or brain chemicals "nothing but" psychology.

True

False

QUESTION 20

Mapping the human brain is possible through neuroimaging.

True

False

QUESTION 21

There are universal, single, areas of the brain in which tasks are processed identically is all humans.

True

False

QUESTION 22

Dead salmon have shown activated fMRI brain activity.

True

False

QUESTION 23

Computer imaging (fMRI, MRI) is a:

research method

research technology

research experiment

research theory

QUESTION 24

The amygdala is known to be active in:

fear

sexual arousal

happiness

all of the above

QUESTION 25

Most colorful brain image scans that we see in the media are:

a statistical composite of many brains

one person's brain

"snapshot" images of a brain

completely useless

QUESTION 26

The visual cortex in blind people can be active when perceiving touch, such as in the use of braille.

True

False

QUESTION 27

The authors of Brainwashed argue that whenever one sees a headline, "Brain Scans Show..." they should entertain some health skepticism.

True

False

QUESTION 28

Neurorealism refers to:

the science fiction prediction of a virtual reality.

neural reducitonism.

the fact the neurons make reality real.

the tendency to regard brain imaging as more "real" than other measure of research.

QUESTION 29

According to the authors of Brainwashed, much of the neuroscience research is overstated neurohype that should be taken with caution.

True

False

QUESTION 30

In Kline's chapter, Electrons or human beings? He calls the computer model of the brian as CPU:

von Neuman thinking

AI

IP

Information Processing Model

QUESTION 31

Step by step decision processing of computers is called:

parallel processing

serial processing

multivariate processing

information processing

QUESTION 32

According to Waltz & Pollack (in Electrons or human beings?), serial processing adequately represents human mental processing.

True

False

QUESTION 33

Ambiguity of meaning in interpretation of a sentence is easily handled through serial processing models.

True

False

QUESTION 34

Humans are believed to think in a way called parallel processing.

True

False

QUESTION 35

According to Kline, much of cognitive science looks more like electronics than psychology.

True

False

QUESTION 36

According to Kline, what is important to psychologists is what is being seen, not how it is being seen (mind versus physiology).

True

False

QUESTION 37

According to Dr. Giobbi's lecture, neuroscience is interdisciplinary.

True

False

QUESTION 38

Neuroscience researchers often discuss perspectives of their topic from outside of science. This includes:

economics

literature

art

all of the above

QUESTION 39

Neuroscience (unlike psychology) is not plagued by:

A history of infighting on what the discipline is & how it should be done.

A rigid, singular point of view.

A preoccupation with being viewed as one of the sciences.

all of these

QUESTION 40

It is not uncommon to find art & philosophy discussed in neuroscience texts.

True

False

QUESTION 41

"Prof. Xavie agrees that evolutionary theory is flawed, therefor it is." This is an example of:

appeal to authority

bandwagon

gambler's fallacy

ambiguity

QUESTION 42

John has flipped heads four times in a row, therefor it is more likely that he will flip tails soon. This thinking illustrates the:

appeal to authority

bandwagon

gambler's fallacy

appeal to authority

QUESTION 43

"All of the psychology textbooks say that experiments show cause & effect, therefore it must be true." This is an example of:

appeal to authority

bandwagon

gambler's fallacy

ambiguity

QUESTION 44

Recently there has been a trend in which psychology undergraduate students are choosing to attend graduate programs in neuroscience departments.

True

False

QUESTION 45

Neuroscience is the same as psychology.

True

False

is semi-automatic

is automatic

is voluntary

none of the above

Explanation / Answer

3) True , he wrote a book on priciple of psychology

4) True

5) automatic

6) False

7) True

8) False

9) True

10) True , it always depends on the human mindset

11) True , Media processed the brain image helps in uunderstanding the state of brain

12) True

13) True

14) True

15) False , this is always done by the university press / Media for publicity

16) False

17) all the above

18) False

19) True

20) True

21) False

22) True

23) Reasearch technology for brain mapping

24) Fear

25) Snap shot image of the brin to understand clearly by the doctors

26) False

27) True

28) The tendency of brain imaging as more real or other measure of reasearch

29) True

30) information processing model

31) information prosessing

32) False

33) False

34) True

35) False

36) True

37) False

38) All the above

39) All the above

40) True

41)

42) Gamblers fallacy

43) ambiguity

44) True

45) False

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