What is the process by which a single neuron relays messages to other neurons called?
Correct answer D. Synaptic transmission
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Psychology MCQs
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What does the thyroid gland control?
Correct answer A. Metabolism
What is the fatty layer that insulates the axon of some neurons called?
Correct answer A. Myelin sheath
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The skeletal nervous system is part of which nervous system?
Correct answer A. Peripheral
What is the role of dendrites?
Correct answer B. To receive incoming signals
Which part of the nervous system carries messages from the spinal cord to the heart muscle?
Correct answer A. Autonomic nervous system
Which is the longest part of a neuron?
Correct answer A. Axon
Which part of the nervous system controls breathing and digestion?
Correct answer A. Autonomic
Damage to Broca’s area mainly causes difficulty with what?
Correct answer D. Speaking fluently
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Specialised cells of the nervous system carry?
Correct answer A. Messages
Which part of the nervous system triggers a faster heart rate?
Correct answer B. Sympathetic nervous system
What is the role of a sensory neuron?
Correct answer D. To carry information to the central nervous system
Which group of psychologists made extensive studies of child behaviour?
Correct answer B. Arnold, Erikson and Piaget
Innate behaviour patterns develop primarily as a function of what?
Correct answer C. Maturation
When does Erikson’s stage of trust versus mistrust take place?
Correct answer B. Infancy
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How many stages of cognitive development did Piaget describe?
Correct answer D. Four
According to Erikson, what is the central crisis of adolescence?
Correct answer B. Identity vs confusion
Piaget argued that the earliest forms of thought are what?
Correct answer A. Early action schemes
According to developmental research, which emotion is the earliest to appear in newborns?
Correct answer A. Excitement
According to Piaget, what characterises the sensorimotor stage?
Correct answer D. Primary and secondary circular reactions