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.
C) motor-skill acquisition. ji


D) balance.


2. Neuropsychology uses information from many disciplines. Which discipline is N ji ji ji ji ji ji ji ji ji


OT one of those?
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A) ethology
B) pharmacology
C) biophysics
D) mycology


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


A) somatic nerves. ji


B) lateral fissure.
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C) arcuate fasciculus. ji


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. ji


B) commissures.
C) cortical lobes. ji


D) sensory nerves ji




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 ji ji ji ji ji .
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: ji ji ji ji ji ji ji


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


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


brain‖ problem, followers of Wallace and Darwin would MOST likely conside
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r 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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harles Darwin was one; the other was ji . ji ji ji ji ji ji


A) William Osler ji


B) Pierre Flourens ji


C) Pierre Marie ji


D) Alfred Wallace ji




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


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


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


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


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: ji ji ji


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 ne
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ural level. ji


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 evolutio
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n.


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


mage.
A) cortical blindness ji


B) hysterical paralysis ji


C) loss of the ability to speak
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D) personality change ji




15. Early support for lateralization and localization of function came from p
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ostmortem studies of: ji ji


A) humans who had recovered function following stroke.
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B) decorticate dogs trained on memory tasks. ji ji ji ji ji


C) regional differences in cell density. ji ji ji ji


D) humans with language disorders. ji ji ji




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 the
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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 ex
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ample of: ji


A) antilocalizationism.
B) lateralization of function. ji ji


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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