1) A blockage of the posterior cerebral arteries that resulted in brain damage would
most likely cause a deficit in
a. vision.
b. motor function.
c. somatosensation.
d. speech.
2) Which term is used to describe an idiosyncratic union between or within sensory
modalities, such as experiencing the color red whenever seeing the letter A?
a.achromatopsia
b. akinetopsia
c.synesthesia
d. agnosia
3) The primary olfactory cortex is located at the junction of the__________
and__________ lobes.
a.frontal ; temporal
b. frontal ; parietal
c.temporal ; occipital
d. parietal ; occipital
4) Which nineteenth-century scientist suggested that the frontal lobe contributes to
language and speech production?
a.Flourens
b. Wernicke
c. Broca
d. Brodmann
5) Empiricism is the philosophical position that all knowledge
a.must be deduced and justified through reason.
b. originates from sensory experience.
c.must be experimentally tested.
d. is globally distributed in the cortex.
6) Which component of attention is associated with the pulvinar?
a. the ability to engage visual attention at a particular location in the visual field
b. the capacity to move the focus of visual attention from one location to another
c. the ability to disengage attention from a particular location in the visual field
d. the ability to locate a conjunction target that is embedded in a field of distracters
7) Stanley Klein and colleagues found that after rating a personality adjective for
self-descriptiveness, participants were_________ to recall a time in which they
exhibited the characteristic, suggesting that self-characteristics____________linked to
recall of specific past behaviors.
a.faster ; are
b. slower ; are not
c.equally fast ; are
d. equally fast ; are not
8) Under the multiple trace theory, the neocortex is to semantic memory as the
hippocampus is to
a. procedural memory.
b. relational memory.
c. semantic memory.
d. episodic memory.
9) Alexandra believes that the effects of attention on perception occur very quickly on a
fine temporal scale. Which of the following techniques should she use to investigate the
changes in perceptual processing that may accompany focused attention?
a. CT (computed tomography)
b. PET (positron emission tomography)
c. MEG (magnetoencephalography)
d. MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
10) A patient visits a neurologist and complains of memory problems like remembering
telephone numbers. After a few tests, the neurologist determines that there is a large
impairment in the digit span, but no impairment in remembering the past or in forming
new memories. Which brain area is the most likely to be impaired?
a. the left medial temporal lobe
b. the right medial temporal lobe
c. the left perisylvian cortex
d. the right perisylvian cortex
11) Galls method for investigating phrenology was flawed because
a.he used the wrong language to explain the characteristics he observed.
b. he did not tell Napoleon Bonaparte that he possessed noble characteristics.
c.he ought only to confirm, not disprove, the correlations he observed.
d. he used his own skull as the base model.
12) An experiment that requires participants to respond based on one goal, such as
naming digits, on some trials and another goal, such as naming letters, on other trials is
an example of a(n)__________
paradigm.
a.error-monitoring
b. task-switching
c.Stroop
d. contention-scheduling
13) The encoding of information to be stored involves two stages: __________, in
which inputs in sensory buffers and sensory analysis stages are registered, and then
__________, in which a stronger representation for storage is created.
a. consolidation ; storage
b. storage ; retrieval
c. retrieval ; acquisition
d. acquisition ; consolidation
14) Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is based on a measurement of
a.magnetic fields emanating from the surface of the brain.
b. the distribution of dye in the arteries and veins of the brain.
c.virtual lesions following intense magnetic stimulation of the brain.
d. ratios of oxygenated to deoxygenated hemoglobin in the brain.
15) An aphasic person who makes semantic paraphasia errors in her speech might say
__________ when she actually intends to say __________
a.kit ; cat
b. am ; is
c.cow ; horse
d. spin ; snip
16) Which of the following things would have been the most difficult for the famous
individual studied by Paul Broca, compared to before his stroke?
a. listening to a piano recital
b. appreciating a painting
c. reading a book aloud
d. playing a game of cards
17) Which of the following statements is true regarding the role of NMDA receptors in
mediating LTP in the brain?
a. NMDA receptors are critical to inducing LTP but not to maintaining LTP.
b. NMDA receptors block LTP in the brain unless magnesium ions are present.
c. NMDA receptors are depolarized by the binding of the neurotransmitter
acetylcholine.
d. NMDA receptors create LTP by transporting magnesium ions from outside the cell
into the cell.
18) Neuroeconomic studies have shown that humans
a.make decisions that maximize rewards and minimize losses.
b. make decisions that maximize rewards and minimize losses, unless they have
suffered damage to the amygdala.
c.do not always make decisions that maximize rewards and minimize losses.
d. do not always make decisions that maximize rewards and minimize losses, unless
they have suffered damage to the orbitofrontal cortex.