Neuropsychology exam 1
The relation between psychology and neuropsychology - correct answer Psychology seeks to describe,
explain, modify and predict human and animal behavior. Neuropsychology, a subspecialty of psychology,
is the study of how complex properties of the brain all behavior to occur.
The job of a neuropsychologist is - correct answer To study the relationships between brain function and
behavior
Trephination - correct answer An ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a
circular section of the skull, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior.
Hippocrates - correct answer Greek physician honored as the founder of modern medicine. Believed the
brain controls all senses and movements. First to recognize that paralysis occurs on the side of the body
opposite to the side of head injury
Plato - correct answer Suggested the soul has 3 parts: Appetite, reason and temper
Aristotle - correct answer Cardiac hypothesis proposing that the heart as the sea of such emotions as
love and anger
Rene Descartes - correct answer Dualism=mind, body relationship. Theorized that mental processes
reside in the small anatomic feature, the pineal gland.
Gall - correct answer Phrenology (science of bumps on the head)
Paul Broca - correct answer Announced to the medical community that motor speech was specifically
located in the posterior, inferior region of the left frontal lobe
Carl Wernicke - correct answer Announced that the understanding of speech was located in the superior,
posterior aspects of the temporal lobe
Karl Lashley - correct answer Formulated his famous principle of mass action
, Neuropsychology exam 1
Mass action - correct answer The extent of behavioral impairments is directly proportional to the mass
of the removed tissue
Hughlings Jackson - correct answer Suggested that given his observations, behavior results from
interactions among all areas of the brain.
Alexander Luria - correct answer Formulated the concept of functional systems, which represent the
pattern of interaction among the various areas of the brain necessary to complete a behavior.
Ward Halstead - correct answer Founded the first neuropsychology laboratory in the U.S. at the
University of Chicago.
Halstead-Reitan neuropsychology battery - correct answer Can give empirical support to assessing brain
damage.
Dendrites - correct answer Feathery extensions that branch from the neuron into the immediate
neighborhood of the cell body.
Axon - correct answer The part of the neuron that extends from the cell body, functions similarly in all
creatures. Main function is to transmit electrochemical information from the cell body to the synapse
through microtubules along its length.
Terminal buttons - correct answer Near the end of the axon, branches of slightly enlarged knob-like ends
that help send signals from one neuron to another through a synaptic cleft.
Synapse - correct answer The place where electrical nerve impulses cause the release of a
neurotransmitter.
EEG - correct answer Electroencephalograph- where researchers can study and analyze the brain through
electrical means.
Multipolar neurons - correct answer With many dendrites and one axon
The relation between psychology and neuropsychology - correct answer Psychology seeks to describe,
explain, modify and predict human and animal behavior. Neuropsychology, a subspecialty of psychology,
is the study of how complex properties of the brain all behavior to occur.
The job of a neuropsychologist is - correct answer To study the relationships between brain function and
behavior
Trephination - correct answer An ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a
circular section of the skull, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior.
Hippocrates - correct answer Greek physician honored as the founder of modern medicine. Believed the
brain controls all senses and movements. First to recognize that paralysis occurs on the side of the body
opposite to the side of head injury
Plato - correct answer Suggested the soul has 3 parts: Appetite, reason and temper
Aristotle - correct answer Cardiac hypothesis proposing that the heart as the sea of such emotions as
love and anger
Rene Descartes - correct answer Dualism=mind, body relationship. Theorized that mental processes
reside in the small anatomic feature, the pineal gland.
Gall - correct answer Phrenology (science of bumps on the head)
Paul Broca - correct answer Announced to the medical community that motor speech was specifically
located in the posterior, inferior region of the left frontal lobe
Carl Wernicke - correct answer Announced that the understanding of speech was located in the superior,
posterior aspects of the temporal lobe
Karl Lashley - correct answer Formulated his famous principle of mass action
, Neuropsychology exam 1
Mass action - correct answer The extent of behavioral impairments is directly proportional to the mass
of the removed tissue
Hughlings Jackson - correct answer Suggested that given his observations, behavior results from
interactions among all areas of the brain.
Alexander Luria - correct answer Formulated the concept of functional systems, which represent the
pattern of interaction among the various areas of the brain necessary to complete a behavior.
Ward Halstead - correct answer Founded the first neuropsychology laboratory in the U.S. at the
University of Chicago.
Halstead-Reitan neuropsychology battery - correct answer Can give empirical support to assessing brain
damage.
Dendrites - correct answer Feathery extensions that branch from the neuron into the immediate
neighborhood of the cell body.
Axon - correct answer The part of the neuron that extends from the cell body, functions similarly in all
creatures. Main function is to transmit electrochemical information from the cell body to the synapse
through microtubules along its length.
Terminal buttons - correct answer Near the end of the axon, branches of slightly enlarged knob-like ends
that help send signals from one neuron to another through a synaptic cleft.
Synapse - correct answer The place where electrical nerve impulses cause the release of a
neurotransmitter.
EEG - correct answer Electroencephalograph- where researchers can study and analyze the brain through
electrical means.
Multipolar neurons - correct answer With many dendrites and one axon
