Test Bank for Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology 8th Edition By Bryan Kolb, Ian Whishaw All Chapter Complete 100% Newest 2025 Edition

, 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.
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D) balance.


2. Neuropsychology uses information from many disciplines. Which discipline is
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NOT one of those?
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A) ethology
B) pharmacology
C) biophysics
D) mycology


3. Communication between cerebral hemispheres occurs via the: ri ri ri ri ri ri


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B) lateral fissure.
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C) arcuate fasciculus.
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D) corpus callosum.
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4. The folds or bumps characteristic of the cerebral cortex are called:
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A) gyri.
B) sulci.
C) lobes.
D) nuclei.


5. The corpus callosum is the largest of the brain's:
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A) subcortical nuclei. ri


B) commissures.
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6. The brain and spinal cord together make up the
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A) autonomic
B) peripheral
C) central
D) somatic


7. Which of the following supported a cardiac hypothesis of behavior?
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A) Plato
B) Galen



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,C) Aristotle
D) Hippocrates


8. Descartes was an articulate proponent of ri ri ri ri ri .
A) monism
B) dualism
C) the cardiac hypothesis
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D) nonmaterialism


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


A) mentalist.
B) behaviorist.
C) materialist.
D) dualist.


10. With respect to the ―mind– ri ri ri ri


brain‖ problem, followers of Wallace and Darwin would MOST likely consid
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er themselves to be
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A) mentalists
B) materialists
C) dualists
D) agnostics


11. Two individuals developed similar theories of evolution at about the same time. C
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A) William Osler ri


B) Pierre Flourens ri


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


he:
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D) flow of cerebrospinal fluid between ventricles and muscles.
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13. Darwin's principle that all animals' nervous systems evolved from that of a c
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ommon ancestor predicted that: ri ri ri


A) all living things can in theory be traced back to the same ancient unknown ancestor.
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, B) over time, nervous systems have come to have increasingly more in common at the n
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eural level. ri


C) functionally different structures in different species share common ancestral genes a
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nd mechanisms.
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D) brain–
behavior relationships have remained largely unchanged during the course of evoluti
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on.


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


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C) loss of the ability to speak
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15. Early support for lateralization and localization of function came from p
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ostmortem studies of: ri ri


A) humans who had recovered function following stroke.
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D) humans with language disorders. ri ri ri




16. Although all of the individuals listed made contributions to our knowledge of the la
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teralization of language functions in the brain, is generally credited with th
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e MOST important findings.
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A) Dax
B) Bouillaud
C) Marie
D) Broca


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


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C) mentalism.
D) phrenology.


18. The cortical area MOST closely associated with speech comprehension is the
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lobe.
A) temporal
B) frontal
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