If the lateral hypothalamus is destroyed a rat will:

Related Mcqs:

1. The hypothalamus has_______hunger center (s).

   A. no control over
   B. total control over
   C. the most direct control over
   D. one

2. The hypothalamus has_______hunger center(s).

   A. no control over
   B. total control over
   C. the most direct control over
   D. one

3. Watson trained Little Albert to fear a white rat. In his experiment the loud noise was a (n):

   A. Unconditioned response
   B. Conditioned stimulus
   C. Conditioned response
   D. Unconditioned stimulus

4. Phobias can be very debilitating and distressing phenomena. Which, if any, of the following statements are correct in relation to Watson and Rayner’s (1920) research into them?
   1:Watson and Rayner speculated that the complexity of emotional responsiveness in adults might be explained by the conditioning of children’s simple emotional reactions when they are exposed to new stimuli
   2:Watson and Rayner found evidence for emotional from a test trial in which the rat was accompanied by the noise
   3:The fear reaction in Albert could be produced by a loud noise
   4:None of the above

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 1 & 3
   C. 2 & 3
   D. 4

5. Watson and Rayner (1`920) conditioned “Little Albert’ to fear white rats by banging a hammer on a steel bar as the child played with a white rat. Later, it was discovered that Albert feared not only white rats but white stuffed toys and Santa’s beard as well. Albert’s fear of these other objects can be attributed to:

   A. the law effect
   B. stimulus generalization
   C. stimulus discrimination
   D. an overactive imagination

6. The illusion of the rat or the professor and the young lady or the old lady are both examples of what type of illusion?

   A. Constancy
   B. Simultaneous contrasts
   C. Perceptual inference
   D. Reversible figures

7. The receptors in hypothalamus that detect the stimulus of smell, taste and blood carbon dioxide concentration is:

   A. Photoreceptors
   B. Mechanoreceptors
   C. Chemoreceptors
   D. All of the above

8. The hormones produced in hypothalamus are stored in:

   A. Anterior pituitary lobe
   B. Posterior pituitary lobe
   C. Median pituitary lobe
   D. Hypophysis cerebri

9. The somatotropin releasing factor secreted from hypothalamus promotes which of the followings when growth ceases after adolescence:

   A. Protein synthesis
   B. Acromegaly
   C. Gigantism
   D. Cretinism

10. Release of corticotrophin releasing factor from hypothalamus is controlled by levels of_______in blood:

    A. Thyroxine
    B. Cortisone
    C. Prolactin
    D. Steroids