1) Patients with damage to the medial temporal lobe and hippocampus typically do not
have difficulty performing short-term memory tasks such as the digit span.
2) The dorsal visual pathway is associated with the parietal lobe.
3) Listening to a sentence like He spreads the warm bread with socks will evoke a P600
brain potential.
4) The term selective permeability refers to the fact that a cell membrane will allow
some ions to pass through more readily than others.
5) Attention can be directed to both spatial and nonspatial features of target visual
stimuli.
6) Extrastriate cortical regions specialized for the processing of color, form, and motion
are modulated by visual attention to these stimulus features.
7) Research suggests that self-description judgments rely on recall of specific
autobiographical episodes.
8) Sulci are the protruding rounded surfaces of the cortex, and gyri are the fissures and
invaginations between the sulci.
9) Synesthesia is a deficit in the ability to recognize faces that cannot be directly
attributed to deterioration in intellectual function.
10) Information processed in relation to the self is better remembered than that which is
processed in relation to others.
11) The key function of the inferior temporal lobe is to evaluate response conflict.
12) Following a case of encephalitis, a person has developed lesions in his anterior
temporal lobes, but his medial temporal structures are intact. Which of the following is
most likely to be true of this person?
a. The person has isolated anterograde amnesia.
b. The person has isolated retrograde amnesia.
c. The person has Korsakoffs syndrome.
d. The person has a specific deficit of implicit memory.
13) The insula is involved in which of the following?
a. happiness
b. disgust
c. love
d. none of the above
14) Information about the left hand is processed
a.in the left hemisphere for both the primary and secondary somatosensory cortices.
b. in the right hemisphere for both the primary and secondary somatosensory cortices.
c.in the left hemisphere for the primary somatosensory cortex and bilaterally for the
secondary somatosensory cortex.
d. in the right hemisphere for the primary somatosensory cortex and bilaterally for the
secondary somatosensory cortex.
15) Wernicke was an early researcher who suggested that the __________contributes to
language comprehension.
a.right frontotemporal area
b. left frontotemporal area
c.right temporoparietal area
d. left temporoparietal area
16) When you first learn how to execute the complex motor sequence that comprises a
slam dunk in basketball, a circuit including the _________ is active. After much
practice, once you have learned the sequence well, a second circuit involving the
_________ is active.
a. parietal cortex ; lateral premotor area
b. lateral premotor area ; supplementary motor area
c. supplementary motor area ; parietal cortex
d. basal ganglia ; parietal cortex
17) How many types of receptors are there in the olfactory epithelium?
a.two
b. four
c.five
d. Olfaction
18) The symptoms of all of the following neurological language syndromes suggest the
disruption of an organized semantic network in which word meanings are stored,
EXCEPT
a.Wernickes aphasia.
b. deep dyslexia
c.progressive semantic dementia.
d. conduction aphasia.
19) If a split-brain patient with the typical pattern of language dominance is shown an
XOAect briefly in her left visual field, she will be able to indicate what she saw
successfully if she is asked to
a.speak its name.
b. point to the object using her left hand.
c.point to the object using her right hand.
d. verbally describe, rather than name, the object.
20) Neurons in the spinal cord that can mediate sequences of motor actions even in the
absence of external sensory feedback signals are called
a. proximal effectors.
b. central pattern generators.
c. alpha motor neurons.
d. ventral root neurons.
21) Resecting or removing regions of cortex and cutting the corpus callosum are
techniques that are usually used to
a.alleviate severe chronic epilepsy.
b. reduce the symptoms of depression.
c.increase the functioning of dopaminergic cells in people with Parkinsons disease.
d. relieve imbalances in neurotransmitter levels that can lead to Alzheimers disease.
22) Your friend is looking for you and sees your face on someone elses body. This is
most likely due to an error in which attentional system?
a. the ventral system
b. the dorsal system
c. Neither a nor b
d. Both a and b
23) The German neurologist Wernicke found that injury to which region of the brain
resulted in poor language comprehension and nonsensical but relatively fluent speech?
a.the left arcuate fasciculus
b. the left posterior and superior temporal lobe
c.the right inferior frontal lobe
d. the right medial temporal lobe
24) Willis is to __________ as__________ is to Broca.
a.Flourens ; Spurzheim.
b. Spurzheim ; Flourens.
c.Gall ; Dax.
d. Dax ; Gall.
25) Studies of cortical organization in blind people have shown that, compared to
sighted people,
a.blind people show increased activity in the occipital cortex when sweeping their
fingers over rough surfaces and when given tactile discrimination tasks.
b. blind people show increased activity in the occipital cortex when given tactile
discrimination tasks but not when sweeping their fingers over rough surfaces.
c.blind people show decreased activity in the occipital cortex when sweeping their
fingers over rough surfaces and when given tactile discrimination tasks.
d. blind people show decreased activity in the occipital cortex when given tactile
discrimination tasks but not when sweeping their fingers over rough surfaces.
26) Your brother sees that you are talking to a friend through a Bluetooth piece in your
left ear while the news is playing out in a room. What is he likely to observe after you
hang up?
a. You do not remember anything.
b. You can accurately report the news for the day.
c. You can remember the details of your friends conversation.
d. You are equally accurate at reporting what happened in the world today and what
your friend spoke to you about.
27) Which of the following is true of the prefrontal cortex, schizophrenia, and
depression?
a.Both schizophrenia and depression are associated with hypermetabolism in the
prefrontal cortex.
b. Both schizophrenia and depression are associated with hypometabolism in the
prefrontal cortex.
c.Whereas schizophrenia is associated with hypermetabolism in the prefrontal cortex,
depression is associated with hypometabolism in the prefrontal cortex.
d. Whereas schizophrenia is associated with hypometabolism in the prefrontal cortex,
depression is associated with hypermetabolism in the prefrontal cortex.
28) __________ refers to the processing of incoming information to be stored.
a. Retrieval
b. Recall
c. Encoding
d. Explicit memory
29) Which area of the body has the greatest amount of representation in the human
primary somatosensory cortex?
a.hands
b. feet
c.gums
d. trunk
30) The 3H-thymidine labeling method is especially useful in determining when
particular cells in the nervous system emerge because
a.only cells that are fully myelinated at the time of injection are radioactively labeled.
b. only glial cells absorb the marker and are radioactively labeled.
c.only cells that are fully mature at the time of injection are radioactively labeled.
d. only cells that are undergoing cell division at the time of injection are radioactively
labeled.