Behavioural and Allied Sciences MCQ

Behavioural and Allied Sciences MCQ

1. Wave ______________ is to pitch as wave ______________ is to loudness.

1. length, frequency
2. peak, trough
3. frequency, amplitude
4. pressure, distinctiveness

2. Damage to your olfactory membrane would most likely impair your ability to

1. smell
2. feel pain
3. hear
4. see

3. When detecting colour, hue depends on ______________ while brightness depends on ______________

1. height, length
2. length, height
3. intensity, consistency
4. consistency, intensity

 

4. That fact that you may notice a disgusting smell when you first walk into the room but stop noticing if you stay in the room for a while illustrates

1. synaesthesia
2. selective attention
3. sensory attention
4. sensory adaptation

 

5. Where in the brain is the medial geniculate nucleus found:

1. midbrain
2. pons
3. thalamus
4. brainstem

 

6. Which of these are actively involved to see in darkness:

1. cones
2. rods
3. hair cells
4. cochlear nuclei

 

7. The auditory nerve first reaches ______________ before reaching inferior colliculus.

1. superior colliculus
2. medial geniculate nucleus
3. ventral cochlear nucleus
4. lateral geniculate nucleus

 

8. What is the precursor of steroid hormone:

1. Protein
2. Cholesterol
3. Carbohydrate
4. Lipid

 

9. All the following are true of posterior pituitary hormones except

1. they include direct and tropic hormones
2. they are released from the posterior pituitary
3. nerve signal from the hypothalamus stimulates their release
4. they include antidiuretic hormone and oxytocin

 

10. Which of the following hormones would bind to receptors located on the inside of the cell:

1. testosterone
2. LH
3. prolactin
4. growth hormone