EPPP BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR PRACTICE EXAM
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Gonadal Axis - ✔✔- mechanisms involved in development of
secondary sex characteristics
✔✔Hypothalamus - ✔✔- forebrain
- tries to maintain homeostasis
- hunger, thirst, sex, sleep, body temperature, movement, and emotional reactions
- translates emotions into physical responses
- damage can cause uncontrollable laughter or intense rage and aggression
✔✔Kluver-Bucy Syndrome - ✔✔- amygdala
- reduced fear and aggression, increased docility, oral behaviors, hyper sexuality,
inability to recognize significance or meaning of events or objects
✔✔Left Hemisphere - ✔✔- written/spoken language
- logical thinking: mathematics, abstraction, and reasoning
✔✔Limbic System - ✔✔- forebrain
- memory and primarily mediation of emotion
- includes amygdala, hippocampus, and cingulate cortex
✔✔Long Term Potentiation - ✔✔- changes in number and shape of cells dendrites
- formation of new synaptic connections
- increase in glutamate that results in long term memories
✔✔Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) - ✔✔- evaluation of the soft tissues and spinal
column that provides information on the structure and function of the brain
- uses magnetic fields and radio waves to provide cross-sectional images of brain
- also generates 3-D images of brain
- Takes a series of images at different levels of the brain using a magnetic field to create
a 3-D brain image; more precise than CT & Does Not use x-rays
✔✔Medulla - ✔✔- flow of information between spinal cord and brain
- regulates vital functions
- breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure
- so damage usually results in death
- coordinates swallowing, coughing, sneezing
✔✔Menopause - ✔✔- usually occurs in late 40s or early 50s
- decreased estrogen levels produce a variety of emotional and physical symptoms
✔✔Midbrain - ✔✔- includes colliculi, substantia nigra, and reticular formation
- all information that travels between brain and spinal cord goes through here
, ✔✔Motor Cortex - ✔✔- voluntary motor activity
✔✔Myelin Sheath - ✔✔- speeds up conduction of nerve pulses
✔✔Nervous System - ✔✔- includes Peripheral NS and Central NS
✔✔Neurogenesis - ✔✔- the recreation of neurons
✔✔Neurons - ✔✔- specialized nerve cells involved in mental processes and behavior
that produce and transmit information by electrical and chemical signaling
✔✔Neurotransmitters - ✔✔- chemical substances that transmit signals from one neuron
to another
✔✔Norepinephrine: Functions - ✔✔- mood, attention, dreaming, learning, and certain
autonomic functions
✔✔Occipital Lobe - ✔✔- primary visual reception area
- visual perception, recognition, and memory
✔✔Ovaries - ✔✔- secrete estrogen and progesterone
✔✔Paraplegia - ✔✔- thoracic damage
- loss of function in legs
✔✔Parasympathetic Nervous System - ✔✔- rest and relax
- conservation of energy and active digestion
- meditation, hypnosis, biofeedback etc can cause more voluntary relaxation
✔✔Parietal Lobe - ✔✔- processing of sensory input (pressure, temperature, and pain)
- damage can result in inability to recognize parts of body (neglect) or self
✔✔Peripheral Nervous System - ✔✔- relays messages between CNS and sensory
organs, muscles, and glands
- includes Somatic and Autonomic Nervous Systems
✔✔Pons - ✔✔- connects two halves of cerebellum
- integrates movements in right and left side of body
✔✔Positron-Emission Tomography (PET) - ✔✔- neuroimaging technique that provides
information about brain activity
- injected with radioactive substance that is tracked in brain cells to monitor cerebral
blood flow, glucose metabolism, oxygen consumption
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Gonadal Axis - ✔✔- mechanisms involved in development of
secondary sex characteristics
✔✔Hypothalamus - ✔✔- forebrain
- tries to maintain homeostasis
- hunger, thirst, sex, sleep, body temperature, movement, and emotional reactions
- translates emotions into physical responses
- damage can cause uncontrollable laughter or intense rage and aggression
✔✔Kluver-Bucy Syndrome - ✔✔- amygdala
- reduced fear and aggression, increased docility, oral behaviors, hyper sexuality,
inability to recognize significance or meaning of events or objects
✔✔Left Hemisphere - ✔✔- written/spoken language
- logical thinking: mathematics, abstraction, and reasoning
✔✔Limbic System - ✔✔- forebrain
- memory and primarily mediation of emotion
- includes amygdala, hippocampus, and cingulate cortex
✔✔Long Term Potentiation - ✔✔- changes in number and shape of cells dendrites
- formation of new synaptic connections
- increase in glutamate that results in long term memories
✔✔Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) - ✔✔- evaluation of the soft tissues and spinal
column that provides information on the structure and function of the brain
- uses magnetic fields and radio waves to provide cross-sectional images of brain
- also generates 3-D images of brain
- Takes a series of images at different levels of the brain using a magnetic field to create
a 3-D brain image; more precise than CT & Does Not use x-rays
✔✔Medulla - ✔✔- flow of information between spinal cord and brain
- regulates vital functions
- breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure
- so damage usually results in death
- coordinates swallowing, coughing, sneezing
✔✔Menopause - ✔✔- usually occurs in late 40s or early 50s
- decreased estrogen levels produce a variety of emotional and physical symptoms
✔✔Midbrain - ✔✔- includes colliculi, substantia nigra, and reticular formation
- all information that travels between brain and spinal cord goes through here
, ✔✔Motor Cortex - ✔✔- voluntary motor activity
✔✔Myelin Sheath - ✔✔- speeds up conduction of nerve pulses
✔✔Nervous System - ✔✔- includes Peripheral NS and Central NS
✔✔Neurogenesis - ✔✔- the recreation of neurons
✔✔Neurons - ✔✔- specialized nerve cells involved in mental processes and behavior
that produce and transmit information by electrical and chemical signaling
✔✔Neurotransmitters - ✔✔- chemical substances that transmit signals from one neuron
to another
✔✔Norepinephrine: Functions - ✔✔- mood, attention, dreaming, learning, and certain
autonomic functions
✔✔Occipital Lobe - ✔✔- primary visual reception area
- visual perception, recognition, and memory
✔✔Ovaries - ✔✔- secrete estrogen and progesterone
✔✔Paraplegia - ✔✔- thoracic damage
- loss of function in legs
✔✔Parasympathetic Nervous System - ✔✔- rest and relax
- conservation of energy and active digestion
- meditation, hypnosis, biofeedback etc can cause more voluntary relaxation
✔✔Parietal Lobe - ✔✔- processing of sensory input (pressure, temperature, and pain)
- damage can result in inability to recognize parts of body (neglect) or self
✔✔Peripheral Nervous System - ✔✔- relays messages between CNS and sensory
organs, muscles, and glands
- includes Somatic and Autonomic Nervous Systems
✔✔Pons - ✔✔- connects two halves of cerebellum
- integrates movements in right and left side of body
✔✔Positron-Emission Tomography (PET) - ✔✔- neuroimaging technique that provides
information about brain activity
- injected with radioactive substance that is tracked in brain cells to monitor cerebral
blood flow, glucose metabolism, oxygen consumption
