Chapter: ONE
8e
1) Following damage to his frontal lobes, subject L. D. Had lasting
impairments in:
a) Visual perception.
b) Attention.
c) Motor-skill acquisition.
d) Balance.
2) Neuropsychology uses information from many disciplines. Which
discipline is NOT one of those?
a) Ethology
b) Pharmacology
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.
5) The corpus callosum is the largest of the brain's:
a) Subcortical nuclei.
b) Commissures.
c) Cortical lobes.
d) Sensory nerves
6) The brain and spinal cord
together make up the nervous system.
a) Autonomic
b) Peripheral
c) Central
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.
b) Behaviorist.
c) Materialist.
d) Dualist.
10) With respect to the —mind–brain‖ problem, followers
of Wallace and Darwin would MOST likely consider themselves to be .
a) Mentalists
b) Materialists
c) Dualists
d) Agnostics
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.
, c) Functionally different structures in different species share common
ancestral genes and mechanisms.
d) Brain–behavior relationships have remained largely unchanged during
the course of evolution.
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.
a) Cortical blindness
b) Hysterical paralysis
c) Loss of the ability to speak
d) Personality change
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.
, d) Phrenology.
18) The cortical area MOST closely associated with speech
comprehension is the lobe.
a) Temporal
b) Frontal
c) Occipital
d) Parietal
19) Apraxia is the inability to:
a) Learn a new motor skill.
b) Produce articulate speech.
c) Make sequences of movements.
d) Combine sensory stimuli into a coherent perception.
20) The currently used medical diagnosis —persistent vegetative state‖
MOST closely reflects the nervous system's:
a) Hierarchical organization.
b) Conduction aphasia.
c) Localization of function.
d) Hebb synapse.
21) A person who cannot understand how the brain ties together past
perceptions and actions in a unified memory is pondering:
a) Apraxia.
b) The binding problem.
c) Aphasia.
d) The neuron theory.
8e
1) Following damage to his frontal lobes, subject L. D. Had lasting
impairments in:
a) Visual perception.
b) Attention.
c) Motor-skill acquisition.
d) Balance.
2) Neuropsychology uses information from many disciplines. Which
discipline is NOT one of those?
a) Ethology
b) Pharmacology
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.
5) The corpus callosum is the largest of the brain's:
a) Subcortical nuclei.
b) Commissures.
c) Cortical lobes.
d) Sensory nerves
6) The brain and spinal cord
together make up the nervous system.
a) Autonomic
b) Peripheral
c) Central
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.
b) Behaviorist.
c) Materialist.
d) Dualist.
10) With respect to the —mind–brain‖ problem, followers
of Wallace and Darwin would MOST likely consider themselves to be .
a) Mentalists
b) Materialists
c) Dualists
d) Agnostics
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.
, c) Functionally different structures in different species share common
ancestral genes and mechanisms.
d) Brain–behavior relationships have remained largely unchanged during
the course of evolution.
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.
a) Cortical blindness
b) Hysterical paralysis
c) Loss of the ability to speak
d) Personality change
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.
, d) Phrenology.
18) The cortical area MOST closely associated with speech
comprehension is the lobe.
a) Temporal
b) Frontal
c) Occipital
d) Parietal
19) Apraxia is the inability to:
a) Learn a new motor skill.
b) Produce articulate speech.
c) Make sequences of movements.
d) Combine sensory stimuli into a coherent perception.
20) The currently used medical diagnosis —persistent vegetative state‖
MOST closely reflects the nervous system's:
a) Hierarchical organization.
b) Conduction aphasia.
c) Localization of function.
d) Hebb synapse.
21) A person who cannot understand how the brain ties together past
perceptions and actions in a unified memory is pondering:
a) Apraxia.
b) The binding problem.
c) Aphasia.
d) The neuron theory.
