COGSCI 115 FINAL EXAM BANK 2024/2025 | ACCURATE REAL
EXAM DETAILED QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
AND A STUDY GUIDE | EXPERT VERIFIED FOR
GUARANTEED PASS | LATEST UPDATE
Mnemonic: "Mindful Changes: Meditation and Brain Health!"
Mindful
Changes
Meditation
Brain
Health
Summary:
Research by Davidson indicates that both long-term and short-term meditation practice can alter
brain activity in regions associated with attention, emotion regulation, and compassion. Benefits
include increased cortical thickness, density of gray matter, and high levels of gamma waves,
which are linked to enhanced attention, memory, and abstract reasoning abilities.
Question: What is the purpose of mirror therapy in rehabilitation?
(a) To increase pain in the affected limb
(b) To provide visual feedback and enhance motor recovery
(c) To focus solely on cognitive tasks
(d) To ignore the affected limb - CORRECT ANSWER Answer: (b) To provide visual feedback
and enhance motor recovery
Mnemonic: "Mirror Moves: Healing Through Reflection!"
Mirror
Moves
Healing
Reflection
Summary:
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,Mirror therapy is used in stroke rehabilitation and to relieve phantom limb pain. By providing a
reflection of the intact hand, patients receive artificial visual feedback that their "resurrected"
limb is moving easily when they move their good hand. This therapy increases neural activity in
the prefrontal and posterior cingulate cortex (linked to executive function and attention) as well
as the primary motor area.
Question: What effect does mental imagery have on the motor cortex in athletes?
(a) It decreases the size of the motor cortex
(b) It activates similar neural networks as physical execution
(c) It has no effect on neural networks
(d) It only activates visual processing areas - CORRECT ANSWER Answer: (b) It activates
similar neural networks as physical execution
Mnemonic: "Imagined Action: Motor Cortex Expansion!"
Imagined
Action
Motor
Cortex
Expansion
Summary:
When athletes engage in mental imagery, focusing on executing precise sequences of
movements, the regions of the motor cortex that control the required muscles expand. Simply
imagining a physical experience activates many of the same neural networks that are engaged
during the actual experience. For someone who has learned a skill, such as ballet dancing, even
watching the activity will activate the brain's internal simulation of it.
Question: How do infants typically respond to mothers with depression?
(a) They exhibit increased curiosity and engagement
(b) They mirror their mothers' moods and show less curiosity
(c) They completely ignore their mothers
(d) They become more active and exploratory - CORRECT ANSWER Answer: (b) They mirror
their mothers' moods and show less curiosity
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,Mnemonic: "Mirroring Moods: Infants Reflecting Mothers!"
Mirroring
Moods
Infants
Reflecting
Summary:
Infants can "catch" their mothers' depressed moods. For example, three-month-old babies of
mothers with depression mirrored their mothers' moods during play, exhibiting more anger and
sadness and less spontaneous curiosity than control infants.
If a mother consistently under-reacted to her baby's activity levels, the baby learned to be
passive. Babies of depressed mothers show reduced activity in the left frontal area, but if the
mother's depression improves, the children's EEGs may return to normal by age three.
Question: What was the outcome of training mothers in sensitive responding to difficult infants?
(a) Decreased secure attachment rates
(b) Increased rates of secure attachment
(c) No change in attachment outcomes
(d) All infants became avoidant - CORRECT ANSWER Answer: (b) Increased rates of secure
attachment
Mnemonic: "Nurturing Training: Secure Attachments Through Care!"
Nurturing
Training
Secure
Attachments
Care
Summary:
A study showed that when mothers of temperamentally difficult infants received training in
sensitive responding, 68% of infants in the experimental condition were rated as securely
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, attached by age one. In contrast, only 28% of infants in the control condition achieved secure
attachment, highlighting the importance of nurturing behaviors in promoting healthy attachment.
Question: What effect does exposure to daily violence have on children's neurological
development?
(a) Improved frontal functioning
(b) Impairments in frontal functioning
(c) No effect on neurological development
(d) Enhanced memory capabilities - CORRECT ANSWER Answer: (b) Impairments in frontal
functioning
Mnemonic: "Stress and the Brain: Impacts of Violence Exposure!"
Stress
Brain
Impacts
Violence
Exposure
Summary:
A study by Nadine Burke Harris explored the effects of extreme stress on neurological
development. Children exposed to daily violence developed impairments in frontal functioning
over time. The fight or flight response suppresses the frontal lobes, ingraining those neural
pathways through chronic activation.
Fortunately, children who had secure relationships with emotionally stable caregivers were
protected from these harmful neurological effects, even amidst traumatic experiences.
Question: What was a key finding regarding BPD participants during attachment assessments?
(a) They showed no brain activation
(b) Enhanced amygdala activation but no frontal activation
(c) Only controls showed amygdala activation
(d) Both groups showed equal frontal and amygdala activation - CORRECT ANSWER nswer:
(b) Enhanced amygdala activation but no frontal activation
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EXAM DETAILED QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
AND A STUDY GUIDE | EXPERT VERIFIED FOR
GUARANTEED PASS | LATEST UPDATE
Mnemonic: "Mindful Changes: Meditation and Brain Health!"
Mindful
Changes
Meditation
Brain
Health
Summary:
Research by Davidson indicates that both long-term and short-term meditation practice can alter
brain activity in regions associated with attention, emotion regulation, and compassion. Benefits
include increased cortical thickness, density of gray matter, and high levels of gamma waves,
which are linked to enhanced attention, memory, and abstract reasoning abilities.
Question: What is the purpose of mirror therapy in rehabilitation?
(a) To increase pain in the affected limb
(b) To provide visual feedback and enhance motor recovery
(c) To focus solely on cognitive tasks
(d) To ignore the affected limb - CORRECT ANSWER Answer: (b) To provide visual feedback
and enhance motor recovery
Mnemonic: "Mirror Moves: Healing Through Reflection!"
Mirror
Moves
Healing
Reflection
Summary:
1|Page
,Mirror therapy is used in stroke rehabilitation and to relieve phantom limb pain. By providing a
reflection of the intact hand, patients receive artificial visual feedback that their "resurrected"
limb is moving easily when they move their good hand. This therapy increases neural activity in
the prefrontal and posterior cingulate cortex (linked to executive function and attention) as well
as the primary motor area.
Question: What effect does mental imagery have on the motor cortex in athletes?
(a) It decreases the size of the motor cortex
(b) It activates similar neural networks as physical execution
(c) It has no effect on neural networks
(d) It only activates visual processing areas - CORRECT ANSWER Answer: (b) It activates
similar neural networks as physical execution
Mnemonic: "Imagined Action: Motor Cortex Expansion!"
Imagined
Action
Motor
Cortex
Expansion
Summary:
When athletes engage in mental imagery, focusing on executing precise sequences of
movements, the regions of the motor cortex that control the required muscles expand. Simply
imagining a physical experience activates many of the same neural networks that are engaged
during the actual experience. For someone who has learned a skill, such as ballet dancing, even
watching the activity will activate the brain's internal simulation of it.
Question: How do infants typically respond to mothers with depression?
(a) They exhibit increased curiosity and engagement
(b) They mirror their mothers' moods and show less curiosity
(c) They completely ignore their mothers
(d) They become more active and exploratory - CORRECT ANSWER Answer: (b) They mirror
their mothers' moods and show less curiosity
2|Page
,Mnemonic: "Mirroring Moods: Infants Reflecting Mothers!"
Mirroring
Moods
Infants
Reflecting
Summary:
Infants can "catch" their mothers' depressed moods. For example, three-month-old babies of
mothers with depression mirrored their mothers' moods during play, exhibiting more anger and
sadness and less spontaneous curiosity than control infants.
If a mother consistently under-reacted to her baby's activity levels, the baby learned to be
passive. Babies of depressed mothers show reduced activity in the left frontal area, but if the
mother's depression improves, the children's EEGs may return to normal by age three.
Question: What was the outcome of training mothers in sensitive responding to difficult infants?
(a) Decreased secure attachment rates
(b) Increased rates of secure attachment
(c) No change in attachment outcomes
(d) All infants became avoidant - CORRECT ANSWER Answer: (b) Increased rates of secure
attachment
Mnemonic: "Nurturing Training: Secure Attachments Through Care!"
Nurturing
Training
Secure
Attachments
Care
Summary:
A study showed that when mothers of temperamentally difficult infants received training in
sensitive responding, 68% of infants in the experimental condition were rated as securely
3|Page
, attached by age one. In contrast, only 28% of infants in the control condition achieved secure
attachment, highlighting the importance of nurturing behaviors in promoting healthy attachment.
Question: What effect does exposure to daily violence have on children's neurological
development?
(a) Improved frontal functioning
(b) Impairments in frontal functioning
(c) No effect on neurological development
(d) Enhanced memory capabilities - CORRECT ANSWER Answer: (b) Impairments in frontal
functioning
Mnemonic: "Stress and the Brain: Impacts of Violence Exposure!"
Stress
Brain
Impacts
Violence
Exposure
Summary:
A study by Nadine Burke Harris explored the effects of extreme stress on neurological
development. Children exposed to daily violence developed impairments in frontal functioning
over time. The fight or flight response suppresses the frontal lobes, ingraining those neural
pathways through chronic activation.
Fortunately, children who had secure relationships with emotionally stable caregivers were
protected from these harmful neurological effects, even amidst traumatic experiences.
Question: What was a key finding regarding BPD participants during attachment assessments?
(a) They showed no brain activation
(b) Enhanced amygdala activation but no frontal activation
(c) Only controls showed amygdala activation
(d) Both groups showed equal frontal and amygdala activation - CORRECT ANSWER nswer:
(b) Enhanced amygdala activation but no frontal activation
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