Biology

Behavioral Psychology and Physiology

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Behavioral psychology and physiology explore cognitive processes, attention, memory, and learning mechanisms like conditioning. These concepts are frequently tested in general science and psychology sections of various competitive exams. Prepare thoroughly using these practice questions covering key behavioral theories and physiological functions.

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Behavioral Psychology and Physiology Questions

Multiple choice

Two systems in the human body involved in coordination and control are

  1. filing system and irrigation system

  2. nervous system and endocrine (hormone system)

  3. digestive system and circulatory system

  4. foot system and eye system
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The nervous system and the endocrine system are the two primary systems responsible for coordinating and controlling body functions.

Multiple choice

The stimulus-response model explains

  1. How growth is coordinated

  2. Why we have ten fingers and ten toes

  3. How homeostasis is maintained

  4. How the endocrine system works
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The stimulus-response model is a framework used to describe how organisms detect changes in their environment and react to maintain internal stability, which is the definition of homeostasis.

Multiple choice

An example of Physiological data is...

  1. Mental Muscle Strength

  2. Cultural norm "expectancy" perception

  3. Visual Activity

  4. Letters or numerals
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Physiological data relates to the physical functions of a living organism. Visual activity (or visual acuity) is a physiological measurement of the eye's ability to see detail.

Multiple choice

Which one below is not a gross motor skill?

  1. crawling

  2. painting

  3. running

  4. walking
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Gross motor skills involve large muscle groups used for activities like running, jumping, and walking. Painting requires fine motor control of the fingers and hands, making it a fine motor skill.

Multiple choice

Who developed the different parenting styles?

  1. Maslow

  2. Harry Harlow

  3. Carl Rogers

  4. Diana Baumrind
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Diana Baumrind is the psychologist best known for identifying the three main parenting styles: authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive. Maslow, Harlow, and Rogers are associated with different psychological theories.

Multiple choice

Brain damage cause tom to lose his ability to play music but his other skills still function normally. This is based on?

  1. Gardner’s multiple intelligences

  2. Spearman general intelligence

  3. WAIS-IV

  4. Psychotherapy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences posits that there are several independent types of intelligence. The loss of one specific skill while others remain intact supports the idea that these intelligences are modular.

Multiple choice

What is the ease of reaching on place to another called

  1. Distance

  2. Spacial interaction

  3. Accessibility

  4. Connectivity
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Accessibility refers to the ease with which one location can be reached from another, often influenced by transportation networks and physical geography.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is not a form of expansion diffusion

  1. Contagious Diffusion

  2. Hierarchical Diffusion

  3. Relocation Diffusion

  4. Stimulus Diffusion
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Expansion diffusion involves the spread of an idea through a population where the number of people influenced grows. Relocation diffusion is distinct because it involves the actual physical movement of people who carry the idea with them.

Multiple choice innate and learned behaviour option a: neurobiology and behaviour biology

Drinking alcohol

  1. Stimulates muscle activity

  2. Speeds up impulse transfer

  3. Impairs coordination of different body parts

  4. Makes the driver extra careful
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
Drinking is the addiction of alcohol which has many serious effects on body. Cerebellum of brain gets affected which causes loss of muscle coordination due to which speech becomes incoherent. Inflammation of axons occur which leads to neuritis. Alcohol acts as depressant of all body functions and all senses become dull. It removes learned behaviour and due to this, a person after drinking beaves in a uncivilised manner. 
So, the correct answer is 'Impairs coordination of different body parts'.
Multiple choice innate and learned behaviour option a: neurobiology and behaviour biology

Alcohol

  1. Increases reaction time

  2. Decreases reaction time

  3. Does not affect reaction but diminished decision making

  4. Both B and C
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
Reaction time is the time taken to give response to a stimulus. Alcohol increases reaction time i.e. the body takes more time to respond to a stimulus. It affects the ability of body to react in response to a stimulus. Alcohol affects brain due to which the region of brain associated with processing of nerve signals is affected. Signals travel in brain from one neuron to other neuron. Alcohol increases the time in which a signal crosses the gap between two neurons i.e. synapse. Hence, the ability of body to interpret, perceive and responding to stimulus is greatly affected.
So, the correct answer is 'Increases reaction time'.
Multiple choice innate and learned behaviour option a: neurobiology and behaviour biology

Which one is affected after drinking?

  1. Coordination of body parts

  2. Reaction time

  3. Power of accommodation

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
Alcohol has many effects on body:
  • It affects cerebellum in brain which results in loss of muscle coordination. Due to this coordination of body parts is lost like speech becomes coherent and the person can't even walk properly.
  • Alcohol increases reaction time. It is the time taken by body to respond to a stimulus. As a result of alcohol consumption, body takes more time to respond to a stimulus.
  • Alcohol effects the power of accommodation of eye which is the ability of eye to focus on objects at different distances for clear visibility. For this reason, alcoholic persons are advised not to drive because their eyes can't focus on objects and this increases the chances of accident. 
Hence, all the options are correct.
So, the correct answer is 'All of the above'.