A. They are the primary cause of innate taste aversion
B. They greatly affect the incentive value of various foods
C. They determine a person’s set point for various foods
D. They have a homeostatic influence on amount of food consumed
Related Mcqs:
- The eating of non-nutritive substances is the definition of which eating disorder?
A. bulimia
B. pica
C. anorexia
D. obesity - The brain structure that plays a critical role in ‘motivated’ behaviors such as eating and sexual activity is the ___________?
A. cerebral cortex
B. amygdala
C. corpus collosum
D. hypothalamus - According to Freud, the Oedipal and Electra conflicts and when a child takes on the values and behaviors the same sex parent in a process called:
A. fixation
B. imitation
C. observation
D. identification - The functions of some peripheral factors in the control of eating can be demonstrated by the sham feeding preparation. But which of the following is NOT true? In the sham feeding preparation:
A. The animal tastes smells and eats the food normally
B. The stomach becomes full
C. It becomes clear that the taste and smell of food provide the immediate reward for food-motivated behavior
D. It becomes clear that oropharyngeal make us feel satiated - An awareness of extensive cultural differences in attitudes and values is most helpful for avoiding ____________?
A. replication
B. random sampling
C. the hindsight bias
D. the false consensus effect - Which brain structure plays a major role in eating behavior?
A. Hypothalamus
B. Hippocampus
C. Frontal lobe
D. Carpus Callosum - Taste aversions are a type of classical conditioning, and if there is a long delay between the CS and US, conditioning is usually prevented. The fact that people and animals can be develop taste aversions even though sickness occurs long after eating indicates that:
A. taste aversions are really more like operant conditioning
B. taste aversions can be unlearned as well
C. there is a biological tendency to associate sickness with any food eaten earlier
D. there is less aversion associated with the actual sickness than with whatever caused the sickness in the first place - Which area of brain are closely connected to hunger, eating and satiation?
A. medulla oblongata
B. hippocampus
C. hypothalamus
D. thalamus - After experiencing inescapable brutalities as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, Mr. Sternberg became apathetic, stopped eating, and gave up all efforts to physically survive the ordeal. Mr. Sternberg’s reaction most clearly illustrates:
A. learned helplessness
B. an internal locus of control
C. an inferiority complex
D. the self-reference phenomenon - Which THREE of the following are true regarding habituation and dishabituation?
1:Habituation involves a gradual reduction in the magnitude of the response to repeated presentation of the response of a stimulus
2:In dishabituation, the response returns when a salient extraneous stimulus is presented just before a trial with the habituated stimulus
3:Habituation is caused by sensory-motor fatigue
4:Habituation occurs as a consequence of the repeated presentation of a single eventA. 1,2 & 3
B. 2,3 & 4
C. 1,2 & 4
D. 4
