A. limbic activating system
B. cerebral activating system
C. reticular activating system
D. thalamic activating system
Related Mcqs:
- In my experiment I am going to investigate how sleep affects anxiety. The number of hours of sleep the subjects have been called the _________________variable.
A. control
B. experiential
C. dependent
D. independent - The capacity of the brain area to take over the function of another damaged brain area is known as brain _______________?
A. regeneration
B. accommodation
C. aphasia
D. plasticity - The capacity of one brain area to take over the functions of another damaged brain area is known as brain:
A. tomography
B. hemispherectomy
C. phrenology
D. plasticity - A brain tumor in the hippocampus of the brain would impair a person’s ability to learn new things while leaving their old memories intact. This condition is known as _________________?
A. retroactive inhibition
B. anterograde amnesia
C. proactive inhibition
D. retrograde amnesia - Which of the following in conjunction with somatropin bring growth and act directly on brain cells causing them to differentiate?
A. Thyroxine
B. Tri-iodothyronine (T3)
C. Calcitonin
D. Both a & b - The finding that people who sleep after learning a list of nonsense syllables forget less than people who stay awake provides evidence that forgetting may involve _________________?
A. encoding failure
B. repression
C. implicit memory loss
D. interference - Zeeshan was involved in a bad car accident three weeks ago in which his best friend died at the scene. Ever since the accident, Zeeshan has not been able to sleep, thinks about the accident all the time and refuses to ride in a car. Zeeshan is most likely suffering from:
A. Depression
B. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
C. Acute Stress Disorder
D. PTSD - An experiment is performed to test the effects of sleep deprivation on rote memory. In this experiment, the dependent variable in the:
A. number of hours subjects go without sleep
B. rote memory scores
C. number of subjects deprived of sleep in the experimental group
D. correlation between hours of sleep and fatigue - Certain neurons in one of the following parts of midbrain appear to influence transitions between sleep and wakefulness and the rate and pattern of breathing:
A. Medulla
B. Pons
C. Cerebellum
D. All of these - Professor Saxton was skeptical about the accuracy of recently reported research on sleep deprivation. Which process would best enable her to assess the reliability of these findings?
A. the case study
B. naturalistic observation
C. random sampling
D. replication
