1) Which of the following is NOT characteristic of the interpreter system?
a.It is cortically based.
b. It works largely outside of awareness.
c.It creates a running narrative.
d. It processes emotion.
2) In a fear-conditioning experiment, you find a person who shows a normal skin
conductance response to a conditioned stimulus (such as a blue square) but who does
not consciously remember the pairing of the conditioned stimulus with the
unconditioned stimulus (such as a shock). This person may have damage to the
a. amygdala.
b. hippocampus.
c. anterior cingulate.
d. basal ganglia.
3) According to the modal model of memory, information that is currently held within
short-term memory originates from
a. sensory memory.
b. working memory.
c. both sensory and working memory.
d. neither sensory nor working memory.
4) What is the main reason that there has been more success teaching nonhuman
primates to use sign language than spoken language?
a.Hand signals are easier than vocalizations.
b. Vocalizations are better controlled in humans.
c.Control of manual gestures is better in nonhuman primates.
d. All of the above.
5) The temporal lobe likely bears this name because
a.it is the brains center for temporal processing.
b.its functions are particularly susceptible to the effects of aging.
c.it lies beneath the area of the scalp where hair grays with age.
d.its neurons fire more quickly than neurons in other brain regions.
6) One property of the central executive mechanism proposed by Baddeley and Hitch is
that
a. it controls the phonological loop but not the visuospatial sketch pad.
b. it is not linked to a single modality.
c. it operates primarily over visual information.
d. it operates primarily over auditory information.
7) In attention experiments, cues that correctly predict the location of the target are
called __________, whereas cues that predict other locations are called __________.
a. endogenous ; exogenous
b. benefits ; costs
c. valid ; invalid
d. overt ; covert
8) Which neuroimaging technique involves injecting an isotope of oxygen into the
bloodstream and using it to measure regional cerebral blood flow?
a.fMRI
b. PET
c. CT
d. EEG
9) Which of the following phenomena is the most consciously mediated?
a. inhibition of return
b. reflexive attention
c. exogenous cuing
d. endogenous cuing
10) A knockout mouse
a. has damage to a particular neural structure due to a physical lesion.
b. has a transient functional lesion because of administration of neurotransmitter
antagonists.
c. is part of a special genetic strain that lacks or no longer expresses certain genes.
d. is bred to perform poorly on maze-solving tasks.
11) Which structure is responsible for extended consciousness?
a.thalamus
b. brainstem
c.cerebral cortex
d. cerebellum
12) You decide that you want to measure blood flow of the brain. Which of the
following methods could you use?
a.listen to the blood flow across veins
b. look at red blood cells under a microscope
c.measure the amount of iron in the blood
d. none of the above
13) Computer axial tomography is to MRI as__________ is to .
a.x-ray ; radio frequencies
b. structure ; function
c.blood oxygenation ; x-ray
d. radiation ; dipoles
14) Many drugs produce their effects by facilitating or interfering with
neurotransmitters at synapses.
Which of the following drugs would most likely increase the effect of serotonin?
a. a drug that binds to directly coupled serotonin receptors but does not change
membrane permeability
b. a drug that prevents the activity of an enzyme that breaks down serotonin molecules
in the synaptic cleft
c. a drug that blocks the effect of Ca2+ ions
d. a drug that blocks the effect of a conditional neurotransmitter that normally facilitates
the effect of serotonin