1) Why is it difficult to investigate the conscious experience of perception using
monkeys?
a.Monkeys do not have conscious experiences.
b. We cannot infer a conscious experience from monkeys behavior.
c.Human visual regions do not correspond perfectly to monkey visual regions.
d. Visual illusions do not affect nonhuman animals.
2) Lesions to the hippocampus typically do not result in profound memory problems
unless the lesions also encompass the amygdala.
3) Vision is to the __________ as audition is to the __________.
a. medial geniculate nucleus ; lateral geniculate nucleus b. lateral geniculate nucleus ;
medial geniculate nucleus c. medial geniculate nucleus ; cochlear nucleus
d. cochlear nucleus ; medial geniculate nucleus
4) The emotional reactivity hypothesis suggests that humans may have undergone
self-domestication by selecting
a.for control over emotional reactivity.
b. against control over emotional reactivity.
c.for emotional reactivity.
d. for reactions to emotions.
5) Here are a hierarchical letter figure and a copy of this stimulus drawn by a person
with a unilateral brain injury. Where is the most probable location of this injury?
a. the right dorsolateral frontal lobe
b. the left temporoparietal cortex
c. the right fusiform gyrus
d. the right occipital lobe
6) The what versus where distinction is supported by single-cell recording studies
showing that neurons in the __________ lobes have receptive fields that are almost
always located in the fovea, where high-acuity vision takes place.
a. anterior occipital
b. inferior temporal
c. posterior parietal
d. superior temporal
7) Which area of the frontal lobe does NOT show increased activity in the cognitive
control of emotion?
a. left lateral prefrontal cortex
b. left dorsomedial prefrontal cortex
c. left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
d. left rostromedial prefrontal cortex
8) The Sally-Anne task is used to test whether someone
a.understands that people can have different mental states.
b.possesses unconscious biases against women.
c.follows social conventions for appropriate behavior.
d.can form new declarative memories accurately.
9) Which phrase best describes retributive justice?
a.A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
b. You cannot have your cake and eat it.
c.An eye for an eye.
d. We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
10) When her telephone rings, a patient who has been diagnosed with visual object
agnosia immediately picks up the receiver and answers it correctly. Why doesnt this
person show any signs of an object recognition deficit in this scenario?
a. The patient can still recognize extremely familiar objects, such as her own
belongings.
b. The patient is impaired only in the recognition of faces, not other classes of objects.
c. The patient can use the sound of the ringing telephone to cue its recognition.
d. The patient can recognize objects as long as they remain stationary.
11) Directing attention to a visual stimulus produces a positive ERP waveform called
the P1 waveform if participants are
a. overtly, rather than covertly, directing attention.
b. selectively attending to the stimulus based on its location rather than its color.
c. exogenously (externally) cued rather than endogenously (internally) cued to the
stimulus.
d. shown a different stimulus in each eye.
12) Your favorite cartoon character has been struck over the head and can no longer
remember his name or where he lives. This is an example of
a. anterograde aphasia.
b. retrograde aphasia.
c. anterograde amnesia.
d. retrograde amnesia.