ls15 final ucla phelan questions with verified answers
Ans✓✓✓ men higher mental women object
********what is heartburn? how do antacids cure it? Ans✓✓✓ burning the
tissue. short term treatment of antacids
1 calorie Ans✓✓✓ energy required to raise 1g of water by 1 deg centigrade
1. ingestion Ans✓✓✓ 1. teeth tear
2. salivary mucous & a-amalyse
3. tongue secretes lipase
4. fofod goes down esophagus into stomach
1. what is the nature of happiness? Ans✓✓✓ a paradox: finding $20 would make
me happier but rich people are not happier than poor people
2. digestion Ans✓✓✓ 1. sphincter closes, prevents regurgitation
2. stomach churns, secretes: HCl (hydrochloric acid), proteases (denature
proteins)
2. why are we built this way? Ans✓✓✓ important lessons:
1. natural selection can cause organisms to become better adapted to the
environment
2. genes causing indviduals to be more reproductively successful than individuals
carrying alt versions of the gene increase their market share
3. your success relative to other individuals is all that matters
,3. what is the connection to emotions? Ans✓✓✓ - emotions: they cause us to
alter our behavior in ways beneficial to our genes
4. what are the consequences of having this happiness system? Ans✓✓✓ - what
happens in your brain when someone does something nice for you? dopamine
release is lower when other people are selfish, similar to pain response (reward
centers de activated)
1. emotions, including happiness, don't last a long as we think they will.
- we adjust quickly to good fortune.
- not a consequence, but a motivator to get there
- ex: lottery winners, anyone achieving their goals
- we recover from catastrophes
- happiness rebounds
- ex: accident victims
2. happiness occurs in response to our relative situation (compared w/ our
expectations for it)
- progress & improvement matter most
- ex: to do lists, colonoscopy
- expectations play a big role
- ex: give gifts, especially when they're not required or expected; Siberian labor
camp
A or T, G or C Ans✓✓✓ match up
a vertebrated neuron Ans✓✓✓ soma, nucleus, dendrites
,absorption Ans✓✓✓ 1. pancreas secretes: lipases (fats), amylases (carbs), trypsin
(proteins)
2. small intestine microvilli secrete: peptidases, disaccharidases
3. liver secretes bile - detergent that breaks up clusters of fats (because fats aren't
water soluble)
4. absorption occurs throughout
activity Ans✓✓✓ with increasing activity:
metabolism (oxygen consumption) inc
adderall Ans✓✓✓ increases release of: adrenaline, dopamine
blocks reuptake of: adrenaline, dopamine, serotonin
inhibits: monoamine oxidase (in synaptic cleft that breaks down dopamine and
serotonin)
advice for emotions Ans✓✓✓ - take your goals less seriously (achieving things
won't make you happy forever)
- take more chances (pain and humiliation won't hurt for as long as we think it
will)
advice for relativity Ans✓✓✓ - structure meetings and other interactions to end
on a positive note
alien relative to EEA, which is Ans✓✓✓ environment of evolutionary
adaptedness
, (small groups * unpredictable food supply)
amino acids Ans✓✓✓ building blocks of proteins
an interesting and unfortunate coincidence Ans✓✓✓ - cocaine binds to re-
uptake receptors. blocks them.
- dopamine remains in synapse
- pleasure is intensified
(no reuptake is occurring, so it fires again)
the message [FILL IN]
are vitamins miracle pills? (can they double your health?) Ans✓✓✓ in the us,
almost no adults suffer from any vitamin and mineral deficiency diseases. and so
they gain no benefit from supplemental vitamins.
as a country gets richer, Ans✓✓✓ they reduce consumption of complex carbs,
increase sugar consumption, and increase fat consumption
axon Ans✓✓✓ extension of neuron
basal metabolic rate Ans✓✓✓ a standard for comparing metabolism
the energy needed to maintain life, without any activity, stress, growth,
thermoregulation, or digestion
typically measured as L O2/hr or kcal/day
Ans✓✓✓ men higher mental women object
********what is heartburn? how do antacids cure it? Ans✓✓✓ burning the
tissue. short term treatment of antacids
1 calorie Ans✓✓✓ energy required to raise 1g of water by 1 deg centigrade
1. ingestion Ans✓✓✓ 1. teeth tear
2. salivary mucous & a-amalyse
3. tongue secretes lipase
4. fofod goes down esophagus into stomach
1. what is the nature of happiness? Ans✓✓✓ a paradox: finding $20 would make
me happier but rich people are not happier than poor people
2. digestion Ans✓✓✓ 1. sphincter closes, prevents regurgitation
2. stomach churns, secretes: HCl (hydrochloric acid), proteases (denature
proteins)
2. why are we built this way? Ans✓✓✓ important lessons:
1. natural selection can cause organisms to become better adapted to the
environment
2. genes causing indviduals to be more reproductively successful than individuals
carrying alt versions of the gene increase their market share
3. your success relative to other individuals is all that matters
,3. what is the connection to emotions? Ans✓✓✓ - emotions: they cause us to
alter our behavior in ways beneficial to our genes
4. what are the consequences of having this happiness system? Ans✓✓✓ - what
happens in your brain when someone does something nice for you? dopamine
release is lower when other people are selfish, similar to pain response (reward
centers de activated)
1. emotions, including happiness, don't last a long as we think they will.
- we adjust quickly to good fortune.
- not a consequence, but a motivator to get there
- ex: lottery winners, anyone achieving their goals
- we recover from catastrophes
- happiness rebounds
- ex: accident victims
2. happiness occurs in response to our relative situation (compared w/ our
expectations for it)
- progress & improvement matter most
- ex: to do lists, colonoscopy
- expectations play a big role
- ex: give gifts, especially when they're not required or expected; Siberian labor
camp
A or T, G or C Ans✓✓✓ match up
a vertebrated neuron Ans✓✓✓ soma, nucleus, dendrites
,absorption Ans✓✓✓ 1. pancreas secretes: lipases (fats), amylases (carbs), trypsin
(proteins)
2. small intestine microvilli secrete: peptidases, disaccharidases
3. liver secretes bile - detergent that breaks up clusters of fats (because fats aren't
water soluble)
4. absorption occurs throughout
activity Ans✓✓✓ with increasing activity:
metabolism (oxygen consumption) inc
adderall Ans✓✓✓ increases release of: adrenaline, dopamine
blocks reuptake of: adrenaline, dopamine, serotonin
inhibits: monoamine oxidase (in synaptic cleft that breaks down dopamine and
serotonin)
advice for emotions Ans✓✓✓ - take your goals less seriously (achieving things
won't make you happy forever)
- take more chances (pain and humiliation won't hurt for as long as we think it
will)
advice for relativity Ans✓✓✓ - structure meetings and other interactions to end
on a positive note
alien relative to EEA, which is Ans✓✓✓ environment of evolutionary
adaptedness
, (small groups * unpredictable food supply)
amino acids Ans✓✓✓ building blocks of proteins
an interesting and unfortunate coincidence Ans✓✓✓ - cocaine binds to re-
uptake receptors. blocks them.
- dopamine remains in synapse
- pleasure is intensified
(no reuptake is occurring, so it fires again)
the message [FILL IN]
are vitamins miracle pills? (can they double your health?) Ans✓✓✓ in the us,
almost no adults suffer from any vitamin and mineral deficiency diseases. and so
they gain no benefit from supplemental vitamins.
as a country gets richer, Ans✓✓✓ they reduce consumption of complex carbs,
increase sugar consumption, and increase fat consumption
axon Ans✓✓✓ extension of neuron
basal metabolic rate Ans✓✓✓ a standard for comparing metabolism
the energy needed to maintain life, without any activity, stress, growth,
thermoregulation, or digestion
typically measured as L O2/hr or kcal/day
