1) A patient has great difficulty in maintaining his posture, walking, and coordinating
his movements. His brain injuries probably involve the
a.cerebellum.
b. corpus callosum.
c.superior colliculus.
d. third ventricle.
2) Franz and colleagues (1996) asked a patient who had had his corpus callosum
surgically severed to draw figures like the ones here, each simultaneously with a
different hand.
Compared to neurologically intact control participants, they found that this patient
a. was better at producing movements simultaneously with both hands, even when they
differed in direction.
b. was selectively impaired when simultaneously producing movements with each hand
when they differed in direction.
c. performed poorly and was especially impaired when the figures closely resembled
each other.
d. was better at producing movements simultaneously with both hands only when they
differed in direction.
3) The cell body of a neuron contains the same machinery found in most cells,
including a nucleus, ribosomes, and mitochondria.
4) The term associative agnosia is reserved for patients who
a. have perceptual impairments due to problems with the ventral stream.
b. cannot recognize objects despite having normal perceptual representations.
c. have perceptual impairments due to problems with the dorsal stream.
d. cannot recognize objects due to compromised perceptual representations.
5) Due to a defect in one type of photoreceptor, Susan has poor vision at night, when
light levels are relatively low. Which type of photoreceptor is defective?
a.ganglion cell
b. cone
c. rod
d. cornea
6) Functional connectivity is a measure of functional relatedness between different
a.stimuli.
b. brain regions.
c. neurons.
d. methods.
7) A patient who has difficulty matching pictures of the same object taken from
different vantage points may be showing which dysfunction?
a. anomia
b. alexia
c. apperceptive agnosia
d. associative agnosia
8) When a disturbed ball at the top of a hill could move in any direction,the system is
said to be
a.symmetry breaking.
b.asymmetry breaking.
c.asymmetry producing.
d.symmetry producing.
9) The term__________ is used to describe the situation in which group 1 is impaired
on task X and
unimpaired on task Y and group 2 is impaired on task Y and unimpaired on task X. In
contrast, the
term __________ is used when group 1 is impaired on task X and unimpaired on task Y
and group 2 is
unimpaired on both tasks X and Y.
a. single dissociation ; double dissociation
b. double dissociation ; single dissociation
c. double dissociation ; triple dissociation
d. triple dissociation ; double dissociation
10) The P600, also known as the SPS, is an ERP component that is sensitive to the
violation of expectations based mostly on
a.the physical appearance of words.
b. the pronunciation of words
c.semantics.
d. syntax.
11) The two general subtypes of apraxia are
a. ideomotor and ideational.
b. ideational and associative.
c. associative and apperceptive.
d. apperceptive and ideomotor.
12) When individuals encode information that relates to themselves, which of following
regions is particularly likely to be active?
a. occipital lobe
b. amygdala
c. retrosplenial cortex
d. parahippocampal cortex
13) Split-brain research is associated with which of the following?
a.lobotomy
b. callosotomy
c.hemispherectomy
d. craniectomy