Some multiple-choice points of focus for Exam #1

Chpt 2
1. What factors affect gene expression?
2. Distinguish between phenotype & genotype and between recessive and
dominant genes
3. What are major principles of natural selection at work in evolution
4. Give examples of these principles as evidenced in current species
5. Distinguish between personal survival and species survival
6. Give examples of the relatedness of all species
7. What are possible advantages of there being variability in a species gene
pool?
8. Three basic needs that must be met for survival and the mechanisms and
processes that this requires, according to Coons. What is the involvement of
positive and negative feedback?
9. Consult the Study Guides list of multiple-choice questions for Chapter 2

Chpr 12
1. Homeostasis--what is it, whats it function, by what mechanisms is it
maintained and how does it express itself in terms of automatic physiological
responses and in terms of conscious urges expressed behaviorally?
2. Various roles of the hypothalamus in helping maintain homeostasis.
Demonstrations of these roles
3. The involvement of food intake in energy regulation
4. Interactions between internal and external factors in influencing food
intake
5. Satiety (the termination of a meal)--factors involved
6. Regulation of body weight
7. Obesity--causes and problems in attempts at overcoming it
8. The stages of sleep and the signs associated with each (from Chpt 6)
9. Functions of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
10. Voodoo death: autonomic and opponent-process factors thought to be
involved
11. Adaptive value of territories and of dominance hierarchies
12. Aggression displays and appeasement gestures--adaptive value?
13. Functions of courtship rituals?
14. Factors governing the selection of a sexual mate in males and females
15. Determinants of and differences in sexual behavior between humans and
many other mammals
16. Degree of dimorphisms and their relationship to kinds of mating systems
17. Testicles and mating systems
18. Releasing stimuli in infants that encourage care-taking in parents
19. Pro and con the role of drive reduction in reward
20. Wanting versus liking
21. The dopamine hypothesis of reward and neural systems involved
Chpt 3

1. The ways of investigating the brain

2. Main divisions of the brain
3. Major subdivisions of these main divisions
4. Functions served by these divisions and subdivisions
5. Major regions of the cerebral cortex and their functions
6. Projections regions and association regions of the cortex
7. Sensory and motor homunculi and the pattern of projections to and from
these regions
8. The various neurological disorders resulting from damage to the major
regions and their parts
9. Differences in the functions of the two cerebral hemispheres
10. The split-brain operation and effects resulting from it
11. The involvement of each part of the neuron in the various aspects of
message transmission diagrammed in the handout
12. Characteristics of the all-or-none law and the processes contributing to it.
Intensity coding, giving that law.
13. The action potential, its function, how its initiated, how it spreads, what
goes on in terms of ion gates and ion flow
14. The graded potential and its generation at the synapse
15. Inferring the synapse--synaptic delay
16. Excitation and inhibition: how generated
17. Temporal and spatial summation
18. Various types of neurotransmitters and their agonists and antagonists
19. Withdrawal reflex and the involvement of excitation and inhibition