8th Edition by Bryan Kolb& Ian Whishaw
Questions & Answers
All Answers at the Back of Each Chapter
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, Chapter 1
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.
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,5. The lcorpus lcallosum lis lthe llargest lof lthe lbrains:
A) subcortical lnuclei.
B) commissures.
C) cortical llobes.
D) sensory lnerves
6. The lbrain land lspinal lcord ltogether lmake lup lthe lnervous lsystem.
A) autonomic
B) peripheral
C) central
D) somatic
7. Which lof lthe lfollowing lsupported la lcardiac lhypothesis lof lbehavior?
A) Plato
B) Galen
C) Aristotle
D) Hippocrates
8. Descartes lwas lan larticulate lproponent lof .
A) monism
B) dualism
C) the lcardiac lhypothesis
D) nonmaterialism
9. If la lperson lbelieves lthat lbrain lfunction lis lonly lthe lsource lof lsome lbehaviors, lit lis laccurate lto lrefer lto
lthat lperson las la:
A) mentalist.
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, B) behaviorist.
C) materialist.
D) dualist.
10. With lrespect lto lthe l―mind–brain‖ lproblem, lfollowers lof lWallace land lDarwin lwould lMOST llikely
consider lthemselves lto lbe .
A) mentalists
B) materialists
C) dualists
D) agnostics
11. Two lindividuals ldeveloped lsimilar ltheories lof levolution lat labout lthe lsame ltime. lCharles lDarwin lwas
lone; lthe lother lwas .
A) William lOsler
B) Pierre lFlourens
C) Pierre lMarie
D) Alfred lWallace
12. Materialism lis lthe lphilosophical lposition lthat lall lbehavior lcan lbe lexplained lby lthe:
A) workings lof lthe lphysical lnervous lsystem land lbody lalone.
B) interaction lof lthe lphysical lbrain land lnonphysical lsoul.
C) motivated lpursuit lof lmaterial lwell-being.
D) flow lof lcerebrospinal lfluid lbetween lventricles land lmuscles.
13. Darwin's lprinciple lthat lall lanimals' lnervous lsystems levolved lfrom lthat lof la lcommon lancestor
lpredicted lthat:
A) all lliving lthings lcan lin ltheory lbe ltraced lback lto lthe lsame lancient lunknown lancestor.
B) over ltime, lnervous lsystems lhave lcome lto lhave lincreasingly lmore lin lcommon lat lthe lneural llevel.
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