Cognitive Neuroscience Final Exam
Practice Questions & correct answers.
Participants are shown items that have a 75% chance of being a circle, and a 25% chance of being a
square. On each trial, they need to guess which shape will appear. Which participants would perform
the best on this task?
a) intact human
b) intact animals
c) patient with damage to the right hemisphere
d) all perform similarly ANS -b
True/False: The two hemispheres are more similar from one another in function than they are different
ANS -true
An anatomical difference between the cerebral hemispheres that may be related to language
lateralization is the enlargement of the __________in the left hemisphere. ANS -planum temporale
Visual information that is briefly presented to the ________visual field is processed first by the left half
of each retina and then by the ________hemisphere of the brain. ANS -right
left
Studies of the production of facial expressions suggest that although ________hemisphere(s) can
generate spontaneous facial expressions, _____________hemisphere(s) can generate voluntary facial
expressions ANS -both
left
The left side of the retina on the left eye is the _____________(temporal or nasal?) retina? ANS
-temporal
Based on her symptoms and damage, what type of agnosia do you think DF had?
a) apperceptive
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, b) associative
c) integrative
d) propopagnosia ANS -a
How many types f receptors are there in the olfactory epithelium?
a) two
b) four
c) five
d) more than five ANS -d
During a particularly boring lecture, you carefully note the time on a clock that is mounted on the
sidewall of the classroom while keeping your eyes fixated on the professor's face. This is an example
of___________ ANS -covert attention
There is generally a temporal gradient that occurs when a memory for past events is lost as a result of
amnesia. For someone displaying the typical temporal gradient after a stroke, which of the following
would he be most likely to remember?
a) Wedding from 4 years ago
b) Child being born 2 years ago
c) When he painfully stubbed his toe 3 days before the stroke
d) What he got for x-mas 4 months ago ANS -a
Which accurately describes a difference in the stages we go through to understand spoken vs. written
language?
a) Toward the end of the process, we need to select the correct entry from our mental lexicon for
written language only
b) For spoken, we need to first decode the auditory signal, while for written we first need to identify the
different orthographic units
c) Toward the end of the process, we need to select the correct entry from our mental lexicon for
spoken language only
d) For spoken we need to first decode the auditory signal, while for written we first need to convert
written words to auditory signal ANS -b
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Practice Questions & correct answers.
Participants are shown items that have a 75% chance of being a circle, and a 25% chance of being a
square. On each trial, they need to guess which shape will appear. Which participants would perform
the best on this task?
a) intact human
b) intact animals
c) patient with damage to the right hemisphere
d) all perform similarly ANS -b
True/False: The two hemispheres are more similar from one another in function than they are different
ANS -true
An anatomical difference between the cerebral hemispheres that may be related to language
lateralization is the enlargement of the __________in the left hemisphere. ANS -planum temporale
Visual information that is briefly presented to the ________visual field is processed first by the left half
of each retina and then by the ________hemisphere of the brain. ANS -right
left
Studies of the production of facial expressions suggest that although ________hemisphere(s) can
generate spontaneous facial expressions, _____________hemisphere(s) can generate voluntary facial
expressions ANS -both
left
The left side of the retina on the left eye is the _____________(temporal or nasal?) retina? ANS
-temporal
Based on her symptoms and damage, what type of agnosia do you think DF had?
a) apperceptive
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, b) associative
c) integrative
d) propopagnosia ANS -a
How many types f receptors are there in the olfactory epithelium?
a) two
b) four
c) five
d) more than five ANS -d
During a particularly boring lecture, you carefully note the time on a clock that is mounted on the
sidewall of the classroom while keeping your eyes fixated on the professor's face. This is an example
of___________ ANS -covert attention
There is generally a temporal gradient that occurs when a memory for past events is lost as a result of
amnesia. For someone displaying the typical temporal gradient after a stroke, which of the following
would he be most likely to remember?
a) Wedding from 4 years ago
b) Child being born 2 years ago
c) When he painfully stubbed his toe 3 days before the stroke
d) What he got for x-mas 4 months ago ANS -a
Which accurately describes a difference in the stages we go through to understand spoken vs. written
language?
a) Toward the end of the process, we need to select the correct entry from our mental lexicon for
written language only
b) For spoken, we need to first decode the auditory signal, while for written we first need to identify the
different orthographic units
c) Toward the end of the process, we need to select the correct entry from our mental lexicon for
spoken language only
d) For spoken we need to first decode the auditory signal, while for written we first need to convert
written words to auditory signal ANS -b
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