1) Functional MRI studies of ethical dilemmas suggest that_________decisions recruit
working memory processes, whereas________decisions recruit emotional and social
cognitive processes.
a. personal ; impersonal
b. impersonal ; personal
c.moral ; ethical b. impersonal ; personal
d. ethical ; moral
2) Which of the following is NOT true of infants speech recognition abilities?
a. At birth infants can distinguish between any phoneme.
b. The babbling of infants becomes more and more like the native language as they age.
c.At 9 months infants are unable to recognize foreign language phonemes.
d. Early babbling has phonemes from all the languages in the world.
3) Which of the following functions is NOT mediated primarily by the hypothalamus?
a. endocrine system regulation
b. maintenance of homeostatic states in the body
c. relay of sensory information from the body to the cortex
d. hormone control
4) Which brain region is the most susceptible to coup-contra-coup injury?
a.the occipital cortex
b. the parietal cortex
c.the temporal cortex
d. the orbitofrontal cortex
5) In the auditory system, the basilar membrane is located within the
a. cochlea.
b. eardrum.
c. pinna.
d. middle ear.
6) Which of the following is typically true of people with bilateral damage to the
amygdala?
a. They do not produce a full range of facial expressions.
b. They are like controls in their implicit and explicit reactions to race.
c. They are unable to recognize emotional prosody.
d. All of the above.
7) Which of the following individuals was NOT associated with a major histological
discovery in neuroscience?
a.Edward L. Thorndike
b. Korbinian Brodmann
c. Camillo Golgi
d. Jan Evangelista Purkinje
8) Which of the following statements does NOT explain why some patients are visually
agnosic for living (animate) things versus nonliving (inanimate) things?
a. Knowledge about different categories of objects may be represented in different parts
of the brain.
b. Inanimate objects may activate kinesthetic representations that animate objects do
not.
c. Animate objects may share more visual features than inanimate objects.
d. There are more familiar animate objects in the environment than inanimate objects.
9) Why is it that a split-brain patient might not notice that anything is wrong?
a.The left hemisphere interpreter does not know that information from the right
hemisphere is missing
b. The right hemisphere interpreter does not know that information from the right
hemisphere is missing.
c.The left hemisphere does not have consciousness.
d. The right hemisphere does not have consciousness.
10) Which of the following neuroimaging techniques involves manipulating the
orientation of hydrogen atoms?
a. MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
b. PET (positron emission tomography)
c. MEG (magnetoencephalography)
d. ERP (event-related potential)
11) Generally, in anatomical studies of object recognition deficits, __________
posterior lesions are associated with __________ agnosia.
a. left hemisphere ; apperceptive
b. left hemisphere ; associative
c. right hemisphere ; apperceptive
d. right hemisphere ; associative
12) Examination of cerebral organization in the left and right hemispheres indicates that
a.there are obvious anatomical differences between the hemispheres but no obvious
functional differences.
b. there are obvious functional differences between the hemispheres but no obvious
anatomical differences.
c.the two hemispheres are more different from one another in function than they are
similar.
d. the two hemispheres are more similar to one another in function than they are
different.
13) Which of the following is NOT an area of cortex in the medial temporal lobe that
interacts with the hippocampus in the formation of new long-term memories?
a. cingulate
b. entorhinal
c. parahippocampal
d. perirhinal
14) When presented with lateralized localglobal stimuli to control, participants
generally
a.identify local targets more quickly by the right hemisphere than the left hemisphere.
b. identify global targets more quickly by the right hemisphere than the left hemisphere.
c.identify local targets more quickly when a stimulus was presented in the left visual
field rather than the right visual field.
d. identify both global and local targets more quickly when stimuli were presented in
the right visual field rather than the left visual field.
15) Which of the following visual object properties best illustrates the concept of a
visually invariant property?
a. the context in which an object appears
b. shading on an objects surface
c. the major and minor axes of an object
d. the spatial orientation of an object
16) The thick outer membrane that encloses the brain within the skull is the
a. gray matter.
b. white matter.
c. myelin sheath.
d. dura mater.
17) One of the two pathways of the amygdala is known as the low road. This pathway
can be characterized as __________ and involves a __________.
a. slow and analytical ; direct signal from the thalamus to the amygdala
b. slow and analytical ; projection to the cortex
c. quick and dirty ; direct signal from the thalamus to the amygdala
d. quick and dirty ; projection to the cortex
18) The observation that participants are actually slower to detect targets that appear at
recent previously attended locations is called
a. attentional fatigue.
b. exogenous cuing.
c. inhibition of return.
d. pop-out search.
19) Which of the following factors does NOT restrict our ability to decode information
from the brain?
a. the spatial resolution of our equipment
b. the duration of the thought to be decoded
c. the accuracy of the model for how the brain encodes information
d. the BOLD signal being small for single events