Psy 263 Final Exam 2: Illinois State
University Questions All Solved
Correct 2025 Edition.
Institutional Review Boards (IRB) - Answer determine whether or not a research proposal will
benefit others and/or will harm anyone.
a safe guard
American Psychological Association (APA) & American Psychiatric Association (APA) - Answer -
have ethical standards
-give the DSMs
-drug treatments
-composed of medical doctors
American Medical Association (AMA) - Answer biological and neurological causes with
psychological effects
Genetic Testing - Answer used for when someone has a gene that could help clinically with a
psychological disorder
Huntington Disease - Answer leads to dementia; caused by a single gene
Human Embryotic Stem Cell - Answer -cells that come from embryos (abortions)
-controversial
Justifications for Animals in Research - Answer 1. Understanding animal nervous systems &
behavior are interesting for their own sake
2. As less complex organisms with less complex patterns of behavior, animals are good models
of humans (animals are easier to understand than humans)
3. Certain experiments cannot be ethically performed on humans
4. Most understanding of human diseases and disorders, and most drug treatment for them,
result from research using animals
, 3. Assumes a hierarchy of values among animals (including humans)
National Institutes of Health - Answer - guide for the care and use of laboratory animals (and
other NIH publications)
- lists considerations people should have about what is and isn't ethical in animal research
Society of Neuroscience (and other professional organizations) - Answer -states that studies
have to be for a good purpose
American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) - Answer Vet has to be on site of a research
lab
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) - Answer - people have to submit a
protocol of what will happen to the animal in the experiment as well as how they will be cared
for
- IACUC has to approve protocol (safe guard)
Post-Mortem Exam - Answer An exam of the brain from people with altered or atypical
behavior (correlational neuroanatomy)
Broca's Aphasia - Answer - damage to left frontal lobe of cortex, broca's area, and/or
Wernicke's area (associated with speech disorders)
- causes telegraphic speech: "dog hid table ate bone"
Parkinson's disease - Answer - movement disorders: tremor, rigidity, and slow movement
- loss of neurons in substantia nigra (black substance) in brain
- Parkinson: physician who discovered the disorder
Anatomical Methods - Answer - X-ray, CAT scan, MRI: images of the brain
- Functional MRI (fMRI): examines blood flow/oxygen to brain areas
EEG - Answer "brain waves"
University Questions All Solved
Correct 2025 Edition.
Institutional Review Boards (IRB) - Answer determine whether or not a research proposal will
benefit others and/or will harm anyone.
a safe guard
American Psychological Association (APA) & American Psychiatric Association (APA) - Answer -
have ethical standards
-give the DSMs
-drug treatments
-composed of medical doctors
American Medical Association (AMA) - Answer biological and neurological causes with
psychological effects
Genetic Testing - Answer used for when someone has a gene that could help clinically with a
psychological disorder
Huntington Disease - Answer leads to dementia; caused by a single gene
Human Embryotic Stem Cell - Answer -cells that come from embryos (abortions)
-controversial
Justifications for Animals in Research - Answer 1. Understanding animal nervous systems &
behavior are interesting for their own sake
2. As less complex organisms with less complex patterns of behavior, animals are good models
of humans (animals are easier to understand than humans)
3. Certain experiments cannot be ethically performed on humans
4. Most understanding of human diseases and disorders, and most drug treatment for them,
result from research using animals
, 3. Assumes a hierarchy of values among animals (including humans)
National Institutes of Health - Answer - guide for the care and use of laboratory animals (and
other NIH publications)
- lists considerations people should have about what is and isn't ethical in animal research
Society of Neuroscience (and other professional organizations) - Answer -states that studies
have to be for a good purpose
American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) - Answer Vet has to be on site of a research
lab
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) - Answer - people have to submit a
protocol of what will happen to the animal in the experiment as well as how they will be cared
for
- IACUC has to approve protocol (safe guard)
Post-Mortem Exam - Answer An exam of the brain from people with altered or atypical
behavior (correlational neuroanatomy)
Broca's Aphasia - Answer - damage to left frontal lobe of cortex, broca's area, and/or
Wernicke's area (associated with speech disorders)
- causes telegraphic speech: "dog hid table ate bone"
Parkinson's disease - Answer - movement disorders: tremor, rigidity, and slow movement
- loss of neurons in substantia nigra (black substance) in brain
- Parkinson: physician who discovered the disorder
Anatomical Methods - Answer - X-ray, CAT scan, MRI: images of the brain
- Functional MRI (fMRI): examines blood flow/oxygen to brain areas
EEG - Answer "brain waves"
