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