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1. Following damage to his frontal lobes, subject L. D. had lasting impairments in:




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A) visual perception.




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B) attention.

C) motor-skill acquisition.




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D) balance.




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2. Neuropsychology uses information from many disciplines. Which discipline is NOT one of those?




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A) ethology

B) pharmacology




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C) biophysics

D) mycology



3. Communication between cerebral hemispheres occurs via the:

A) somatic nerves.

B) lateral fissure.

C) arcuate fasciculus.

D) corpus callosum.



4. The folds or bumps characteristic of the cerebral cortex are called:

A) gyri.

B) sulci.

C) lobes.

D) nuclei.




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5. The corpus callosum is the largest of the brain's:




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A) subcortical nuclei.




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B) commissures.




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C) cortical lobes.

D) sensory nerves




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6. The brain and spinal cord together make up the nervous system.




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A) autonomic

B) peripheral




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C) central




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D) somatic



7. Which of the following supported a cardiac hypothesis of behavior?

A) Plato

B) Galen

C) Aristotle

D) Hippocrates



8. Descartes was an articulate proponent of .

A) monism

B) dualism

C) the cardiac hypothesis

D) nonmaterialism



9. If a person believes that brain function is only the source of some behaviors, it is accurate to refer to
that person as a:

A) mentalist.

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B) behaviorist.




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C) materialist.




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D) dualist.




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10. With respect to the ―mind–brain‖ problem, followers of Wallace and Darwin would MOST likely




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consider themselves to be .




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A) mentalists




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B) materialists

C) dualists




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D) agnostics




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11. Two individuals developed similar theories of evolution at about the same time. Charles Darwin was
one; the other was .

A) William Osler

B) Pierre Flourens

C) Pierre Marie

D) Alfred Wallace



12. Materialism is the philosophical position that all behavior can be explained by the:

A) workings of the physical nervous system and body alone.

B) interaction of the physical brain and nonphysical soul.

C) motivated pursuit of material well-being.

D) flow of cerebrospinal fluid between ventricles and muscles.



13. Darwin's principle that all animals' nervous systems evolved from that of a common ancestor
predicted that:

A) all living things can in theory be traced back to the same ancient unknown ancestor.

B) over time, nervous systems have come to have increasingly more in common at the neural level.

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C) functionally different structures in different species share common ancestral genes and
mechanisms.




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D) brain–behavior relationships have remained largely unchanged during the course of evolution.




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14. Although the phrenologists were misguided in many respects, Gall actually did report, more or less
accurately, the first case of following left frontal damage.




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A) cortical blindness




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B) hysterical paralysis




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C) loss of the ability to speak




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D) personality change




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15. Early support for lateralization and localization of function came from postmortem studies of:

A) humans who had recovered function following stroke.

B) decorticate dogs trained on memory tasks.

C) regional differences in cell density.

D) humans with language disorders.



16. Although all of the individuals listed made contributions to our knowledge of the lateralization of
language functions in the brain, is generally credited with the MOST important findings.

A) Dax

B) Bouillaud

C) Marie

D) Broca



17. The hypothesis that the ability to speak depends on the left frontal lobe is an example of:

A) antilocalizationism.

B) lateralization of function.

C) mentalism.

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