Psych 381 Final Exam Review UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
tremor that is pronounced during inactivity - CORRECT ANSWER The major behavioral symptom of Parkinson's
disease is...
make a weaker contribution than environment to the development of the disease - CORRECT
ANSWER Epidemiological studies on the etiology of multiple sclerosis indicate that genetic factors...
a cluster of cells that grows independently of the rest of the body - CORRECT ANSWER A tumor is...
Neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques - CORRECT ANSWER Alzheimer's disease is primarily characterized
by what neurological changes?
Generalized seizures involve abnormal activation across the entire brain while partial seizures involve abnormal
activation in only part of the brain - CORRECT ANSWER What is the difference between partial and generalized
seizures?
benign - CORRECT ANSWER Meningiomas are typically...
Seizures take on many forms and have many causes - CORRECT ANSWER Why is the task of diagnosing epilepsy
difficult?
cerebral ischemia - CORRECT ANSWER Strokes are sudden-onset cerebrovascular disorders that cause brain
damage. Strokes can be caused by...
glutamate - CORRECT ANSWER Ischemia-induced brain damage takes some time to develop. This is because the
cascade of events causing the damage involves the excessive release of the neurotransmitter _______.
Reduces the chances that a closed-head injury will become a (much more serious) open-head injury; Reduces the force on
the brain thus reducing the extent of the brain damage; Reduces the chances of death - CORRECT ANSWER What
does a helmet do in the event of a crash?
repetition priming test - CORRECT ANSWER One test commonly used to assess implicit memory in
neuropsychological patients is the...
bilateral medial temporal lobectomy - CORRECT ANSWER At the age of 27, HM underwent a...
has been most commonly studied in several different neural circuits in the hippocampus - CORRECT
ANSWER Long-term potentiation...
the incidence of his seizures was markedly reduced - CORRECT ANSWER HM's surgery was a success in that...
anterograde amnesia - CORRECT ANSWER HM's greatest postsurgical problem was his...
presynaptic and postsynaptic neurons - CORRECT ANSWER Co-occurrence has been shown to be critical for
LTP. Co-occurrence refers to the requirement for simultaneous activity in...
a mode of short-term storage to a mode of long-term storage - CORRECT ANSWER Memory consolidation is a
process by which memories are transferred from...
episodic - CORRECT ANSWER Explicit memories for the particular events or experiences of one's life are ______
memories.
an extreme anterograde amnesia for new information - CORRECT ANSWER Following his surgery, HM seemed
to experience...
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
tremor that is pronounced during inactivity - CORRECT ANSWER The major behavioral symptom of Parkinson's
disease is...
make a weaker contribution than environment to the development of the disease - CORRECT
ANSWER Epidemiological studies on the etiology of multiple sclerosis indicate that genetic factors...
a cluster of cells that grows independently of the rest of the body - CORRECT ANSWER A tumor is...
Neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques - CORRECT ANSWER Alzheimer's disease is primarily characterized
by what neurological changes?
Generalized seizures involve abnormal activation across the entire brain while partial seizures involve abnormal
activation in only part of the brain - CORRECT ANSWER What is the difference between partial and generalized
seizures?
benign - CORRECT ANSWER Meningiomas are typically...
Seizures take on many forms and have many causes - CORRECT ANSWER Why is the task of diagnosing epilepsy
difficult?
cerebral ischemia - CORRECT ANSWER Strokes are sudden-onset cerebrovascular disorders that cause brain
damage. Strokes can be caused by...
glutamate - CORRECT ANSWER Ischemia-induced brain damage takes some time to develop. This is because the
cascade of events causing the damage involves the excessive release of the neurotransmitter _______.
Reduces the chances that a closed-head injury will become a (much more serious) open-head injury; Reduces the force on
the brain thus reducing the extent of the brain damage; Reduces the chances of death - CORRECT ANSWER What
does a helmet do in the event of a crash?
repetition priming test - CORRECT ANSWER One test commonly used to assess implicit memory in
neuropsychological patients is the...
bilateral medial temporal lobectomy - CORRECT ANSWER At the age of 27, HM underwent a...
has been most commonly studied in several different neural circuits in the hippocampus - CORRECT
ANSWER Long-term potentiation...
the incidence of his seizures was markedly reduced - CORRECT ANSWER HM's surgery was a success in that...
anterograde amnesia - CORRECT ANSWER HM's greatest postsurgical problem was his...
presynaptic and postsynaptic neurons - CORRECT ANSWER Co-occurrence has been shown to be critical for
LTP. Co-occurrence refers to the requirement for simultaneous activity in...
a mode of short-term storage to a mode of long-term storage - CORRECT ANSWER Memory consolidation is a
process by which memories are transferred from...
episodic - CORRECT ANSWER Explicit memories for the particular events or experiences of one's life are ______
memories.
an extreme anterograde amnesia for new information - CORRECT ANSWER Following his surgery, HM seemed
to experience...
