PSY1BNA Exam With Correct Actual Questions And Correctly Well Defined Answers.
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Module
PSMNB
Institution
PSMNB
Neuroscience - correct answer The study of the nervous system
Behavioural neuroscience - correct answer The study of biological bases of psychological processes and behaviour
Major perspectives that are used to study th...
Neuroscience - correct answer The study of the nervous system
Behavioural neuroscience - correct answer The study of biological bases of
psychological processes and behaviour
Major perspectives that are used to study the biology of behaviour - correct answer
1. Describing behaviour
2. Studying evolution of behaviour
3. Observing the development of behaviour and its biological characteristics over the life span
4. Studying biological mechanisms of behaviour
5. Studying applications of behavioural neuroscience - for example, its applications to dysfunctions of
human behaviour
Behaviour - correct answer Can be described in terms of acts or processes, or in
terms of results or functions
Conserved - correct answer A trait that is passed on from a common ancestor
Ontogeny - correct answer The process by which an individual changes throughout
its life-span
Three approaches to studying brain and behaviour - correct answer Somatic
intervention, behavioural intervention, interaction between somatic and behavioural variables
Somatic intervention - correct answer Alteration of a structure or function to see
how behaviour is altered
Independent variable - correct answer The factor that is being manipulated
,Dependent variable - correct answer What is measured in response to changes in
the independent variable
Behavioural intervention - correct answer Intervention in a behaviour to see how
structure or function is altered
Correlation - correct answer Measures how much a body measure varies with a
variable measure - but correlation does not imply causation
Neuroplasticity (neural plasticity) - correct answer The ability of the brain to be
changed by the environment and by experience
Cingulate cortex - correct answer Involved with processing emotion
Is affected by the expectation of stimulus intensity
Levels of analysis - correct answer Range from social interaction down to the
molecular level
Reductionism - correct answer Breaks a system down into its smaller parts, in order
to understand it
Neurological or psychiatric disorder - correct answer One person in 5 suffers from
this
Modern behavioural neuroscience - correct answer Arose in the 20th century
Several studies were conducted on:
Learning and memory
Conditioning
Perception
, Motivation
Consciousness - correct answer Is important and connected to brain activity
Allows us to do important things like planning and reaching conclusions
Deep parts of the brain - correct answer Important for arousal
Topmost parts of the brain - correct answer Responsible for current experience
Nullfield Council on Bioethics (2005) - correct answer The 'anything goes' view
The 'on balance justification' view
The 'moral dilemma' view
The 'abolitionist' view
The 'anything goes' view - correct answer If humans see value in research involving
animals, then it requires no further ethical justification
The 'on balance justification' view - correct answer Research involving animals is
morally acceptable if the costs are outweighed by the benefits, but every reasonable step must be taken
to reduce the harm to animals
The 'moral dilemma' view - correct answer Most forms of research involving
animals pose moral dilemmas. Animal research is morally unacceptable, but so is avoiding research that
could be beneficial to humans or animals.
The 'abolitionist' view - correct answer There is no moral justification for any
harmful research on animals that is not to the benefit of the individual animal. Humans experiment on
animals not because it is right but because they can
Sheep in meat industry - correct answer 15.7 million
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