Biological Basis of Psychology-Brain (CBSE-NET (UGC) Psychology (Paper-II & Paper-III)): Questions 39 - 43 of 197
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Question number: 39
» Biological Basis of Psychology » Brain
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The process known as ________ represents an individual’s ability to focus awareness on certain contents of consciousness while ignoring others.
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| a. | sensation |
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| b. | awareness |
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| c. | attention |
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| d. | perception |
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Question number: 40
» Biological Basis of Psychology » Brain
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What does adaptive sleep theory suggests?
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| a. | Sleep is necessary to combat insomnia and drowsiness. |
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| b. | Sleep evolved because it prevented early humans and animals from wasting energy and exposing themselves to dangers of nocturnal predators. |
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| c. | External environments are constantly competing with individual sleep rhythms. Sleep is necessary to compete with the external clock. |
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| d. | For our internal clocks to have synchrony with the external world, thereby decreasing fatigue, disorientation, and lack of concentration, sleep is necessary. |
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Question number: 41
» Biological Basis of Psychology » Brain
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Which brain section controls bodily sensations such as touch, pressure, and temperature?
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| Choice (4) | Response | |
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| a. | Parietal lobe |
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| b. | Occipital lobe |
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| c. | Temporal lobe |
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| d. | Frontal lobe |
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Question number: 42
» Biological Basis of Psychology » Brain
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The most obvious difference between the human brain and the brain of a carp would be in the
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| Choice (4) | Response | |
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| a. | cerebral cortex. |
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| b. | cerebellum. |
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| c. | cerebrum. |
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| d. | thalamus. |
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Question number: 43
» Biological Basis of Psychology » Brain
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Which of the following explains driving a car along a familiar route while listening to the radio or thinking of something else?
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| Choice (4) | Response | |
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| a. | Automatic process |
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| b. | Somatic process |
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| c. | Controlled process |
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| d. | Parasympathetic process |
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