1) Which of the following is an advantage of MEG (magnetoencephalography) over
EEG (electroencephalography)?
a.With MEG, current flow can be detected in any orientation.
b. With MEG, the inverse problem can be avoided.
c.With MEG, magnetic fields are not distorted by the skull.
d. With MEG, the temporal resolution is much better.
2) The Sternberg paradigm illustrates that when a set of letters held in short-term
memory is tested with a recognition task, the time needed to respond to a probe item is
a.unrelated to the number of items in the memory set and is unrelated to whether the
probe item was part of the original list.
b. unrelated to the number of items in the memory set but is affected by whether the
probe item was part of the original list.
c.related by a linear function to the number of items in the memory set, the slope of
which is the same regardless of whether the probe item was part of the original list.
d. related by a linear function to the number of items in the memory set, the slope of
which is steeper when the probe item was not part of the original list.
3) Patient H.M. had severe retrograde amnesia.
4) George Miller and other investigators found that humans can hold about __________
items in short-term memory at a time.
a. three
b. five
c. seven
d. nine
5) Which of the following results would be expected for an individual experiencing the
most common form of synesthesia?
a.Their visual cortices have been shown to be sensitive to tactile discrimination.
b. They show interference effects when asked to identify the colors of letters if the
colors are inconsistent with their synesthetic experiences.
c.Their somatosensory cortices have been shown to be sensitive to visual information.
d. They show interference effects when asked to identify sung letters if the pitches are
inconsistent with their synesthetic experiences.
6) Communication between the two hemispheres of the brain occurs mainly through the
a. basal ganglia.
b. cingulate gyrus.
c. corpus callosum.
d. limbic system.
7) What are homotopic brain areas?
a.regions of the cortex that are organized according to spatial maps of the environment
b. areas in corresponding locations in the two cerebral hemispheres
c.areas in the brain that are organized according to spatial and auditory frequency
d. regions of the cortex found within the same cerebral hemisphere
8) Thorndikes law of effect
a.stated that much knowledge is innately specified due to natural selection.
b. was written to oppose Darwins theory of natural selection.
c.stated that a behavior that is followed by a reward is likely to occur again.
d. was written to oppose the behaviorists.
9) A patient who has a focal brain injury to the human analog of area MT would
demonstrate all of the following for visually presented stimuli EXCEPT
a.accurate shape discrimination.
b. accurate velocity discrimination.
c.accurate hue discrimination.
d. accurate object recognition.
10) Which of the following statements concerning types of memory in the modal model
of memory is FALSE?
a. At any moment, there is more information in sensory memory than in short-term
memory.
b. Some contents of sensory memory are selected via attention and next processed in
longterm memory.
c. Sensory memory has a briefer duration than short-term memory.
d. Long-term memory has a longer duration than sensory memory.
11) After modeling the quick habituation found in the olfactory system, Sobels fMRI
research suggested that
a.the primary olfactory cortex is related to sniffing, and the orbitofrontal cortex is
related to smell.
b. the orbitofrontal cortex is related to sniffing, and the primary olfactory cortex is
related to smell.
c.the orbitofrontal cortex is related to sniffing and smell, whereas the primary olfactory
cortex is related to smell but not sniffing.
d. the primary olfactory cortex is related to sniffing and smell, whereas the orbitofrontal
cortex is related to smell but not sniffing.
12) KlverBucy syndrome is associated with damage to which brain structure or region?
a. the hippocampus
b. the perirhinal cortex
c. the amygdala
d. the parahippocampal cortex
13) When Bisiach and Luzzatti (1978) asked patients with the neglect syndrome to
describe their own mental images of the Italian city in which they lived, the researchers
found that
a. these patients demonstrated a deficit in moving attention from one location in their
mental images to another.
b. patients had great difficulty in generating mental images in general.
c. there was no evidence of neglect for internally generated mental images.
d. the patients also neglected the contralesional side of their own mental images.
14) Pohl (1973) conducted a study of the what and where pathways in brain-lesioned
monkeys using two different tasks: a landmark discrimination task, which required a
visuospatial judgment, and an object discrimination task, which required object
recognition. He found that monkeys with temporal lobe lesions became severely
impaired in learning the __________ task but not the __________ task. Monkeys with
posterior parietal lesions showed the __________ pattern of performance.
a. object discrimination ; landmark discrimination ; same
b. landmark discrimination ; object discrimination ; same
c. object discrimination ; landmark discrimination ; opposite
d. landmark discrimination ; object discrimination ; opposite
15) As a first approximation, individuals with damage to the left inferior frontal lobe
tend to have more
difficulty with__________,whereas individuals with damage to the left posterior
temporal lobe tend to have more difficulty with__________ .
a. fine motor control ; the sense of touch
b. the sense of touch ; fine motor control
c. the production of language ; the perception of language
d. the perception of language ; the production of language
16) Which of the following people would be most likely to receive the split-brain
procedure?
a. a person with amnesia
b. a person with schizophrenia
c. a person with aphasia
d. a person with epilepsy
17) People with Brocas aphasia may have subtle deficits in their ability to comprehend
language based on its grammatical structure. This symptom is called
a.aphemia.
b. alexia.
c.agrammatism.
d. semantic dementia.
18) To create an effective encoding model of the brains visual activity, what properties
should be used to model V1 voxel activity?
a. semantic properties
b. receptive field properties
c. face properties
d. place properties