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

C) motor-skill acquisition. n8




D) balance.



2. Neuropsychology uses information from many disciplines. Which discipline isNOT one of those?
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A) ethology

B) pharmacology

C) biophysics

D) mycology



3. Communication between cerebral hemispheres occurs via the: n8 n8 n8 n8 n8 n8




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B) lateral fissure. n8




C) arcuate fasciculus. n8




D) corpus callosum. n8




4. Thefolds or bumps characteristic of the cerebral cortex are called:
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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. n8




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

C) Aristotle

D) Hippocrates



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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 accurate to refer to that
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person as a:
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A) mentalist.

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, B) behaviorist.

C) materialist.

D) dualist.



10. Withrespecttothe―mind–brain‖problem,followersofWallaceandDarwinwouldMOSTlikely
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consider themselves to be
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A) mentalists

B) materialists

C) dualists

D) agnostics



11. Twoindividuals developed similar theories of evolution at about the same time. Charles Darwin was one;
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the other was
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D) Alfred Wallace n8




12. Materialism is the philosophical positionthat all behavior can be explained by the:
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A) workings of the physical nervous system and body alone. n8 n8 n8 n8 n8 n8 n8 n8




B) interaction of the physical brain and nonphysical soul. n8 n8 n8 n8 n8 n8 n8




C) motivated pursuit of material well-being. n8 n8 n8 n8




D) flow of cerebrospinal fluidbetween ventricles and muscles.
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13. Darwin's principle that all animals' nervous systems evolved from that of a common ancestor
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predicted that:
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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 neural level.
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