1) Yvette wants to figure out whether cells in two different layers of the occipital lobe
have different functions. What would she have done if she had been a scientist in the
early twentieth century?
a.look at a CAT scan
b. observe the tracts that connect each layer
c.look at patients with damage to those cells
d. look at the layers under a microscope
2) The Stroop effect demonstrates that when viewing
a.colors, we are successful at suppressing color representations when they are irrelevant
to the task.
b.words, we are successful at suppressing word representations when they are irrelevant
to the task.
c.colors, we cannot help but activate color representations even when they are irrelevant
to the task.
d.words, we cannot help but activate word representations even when they are
irrelevant to the task.
3) In an experiment by William Kelley and colleagues, participants judged personality
adjectives in relation to either themselves or the US president. The results suggested
that memory for words
processedinrelationtotheselfwas____________ than that for words processed in relation
to the US president, and that the former condition resulted in greater neural activity in
the________ cortex.
a. better ; dorsolateral prefrontal
b. worse ; dorsolateral prefrontal
c.better ; medial prefrontal
d. worse ; medial prefrontal
4) Which of the following results best supports the notion that the amygdala modulates
the consolidation of hippocampus-based memories?
a. Hippocampus-based learning occurs only if the learner is not experiencing stress or
arousal.
b. Modulation of hippocampus-based learning occurs only if the learner is stressed or
aroused.
c. Modulation of hippocampus-based learning by arousal occurs only if the arousal is
initiated prior to learning.
d. Modulation of hippocampus-based learning by arousal occurs after the initial
encoding of the task, during retention.
5) A researcher wishes to investigate the visual processing of bodies in the human brain
using TMS. Where should he or she stimulate?
a. on the border of the occipital and temporal lobes
b. on the border of the occipital and parietal lobes
c. on the border of the temporal and parietal lobes
d. on the border of the parietal and frontal lobes
6) Joan is a patient who had a stroke in her right parietal lobe and has extinction as a
result of her injury. When placed in a driving simulator she would be most likely to
miss which stimulus when stopped at a virtual crosswalk and staring straight ahead?
(Note: For this question, assume drivers sit on the left side of the car.)
a. a pedestrian on the driver side
b. a pedestrian on the passenger side
c. a pedestrian on the driver side when a second pedestrian is on the passenger side at
the same time
d. a pedestrian on the passenger side when a second pedestrian is on the driver side at
the same time
7) It appears that the medial temporal lobes and the diencephalon are important in
consolidating explicit long-term memories but are not themselves the storage sites for
this knowledge because
a. most skills and habits acquired before injury to these structures will remain intact.
b. only priming and conditioning show signs of impairment following damage to these
structures.
c. only nonassociative learning and priming show signs of impairment following
damage to these structures.
d. most episodic and semantic memories acquired before injury to these structures will
remain intact.
8) Neuroimaging studies of the left and right hemispheres in memory function indicate
that
a. memory structures in the brain are similar in function in the left and right
hemispheres.
b. encoding and retrieval processes in long-term memory may be lateralized to different
hemispheres.
c. implicit memory function is localized primarily to the left hemisphere, whereas
explicit memory is localized to the right hemisphere.
d. working memory information is processed primarily in the left hemisphere.
9) Employing subliminal perception by quickly flashing an angry face before an image
of someone could a.improve the participants attitude about the person.
b. not change the participants attitude about the person.
c.worsen the participants attitude about the person.
d. remove the participants attitude about the person.
10) What did Ami Klin find when autistic people watched the film Whos Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?
a.They failed to understand the sarcasm in the dialogue.
b. They began to refer to an imaginary child like the characters in the movie.
c.They did not pay attention to the faces and eyes of the characters.
d. They mimicked the lines spoken by Martha but not George.
11) The excitatory command to contract the biceps muscle of the arm is normally
accompanied by an inhibitory command to relax the antagonist triceps muscle. If this
inhibitory signal failed to occur,
a. the passive stretching of the triceps would trigger a stretch reflex that would return
the arm to its original position.
b. the contraction of the biceps would be irreversible, and the limb would remain frozen
in the resulting position.
c. the contraction of the biceps would cause tearing of fibers in the triceps and severe
muscle damage.
d. the fibers that make up the triceps muscle would shorten and thicken during the
resulting passive stretch.
12) The greatest advantage of incorporating computer modeling into the study of a
cognitive phenomenon is that
a.this approach best demonstrates the limitations of information processing in natural
cognition.
b. computers can analyze a larger amount of data than can real brains.
c.it is no longer necessary to test humans to understand cognition.
d. this technique can generate explicit, testable theories of natural cognition.
13) The amygdala consists of several subnuclei. During fear conditioning, information
converges on the __________ of the amygdala and from there projects to the
__________.
a. lateral nucleus ; central nucleus
b. central nucleus ; lateral nucleus
c. lateral geniculate nucleus ; medial geniculate nucleus
d. medial geniculate nucleus ; lateral geniculate nucleus