1) A toddler sees two members of their social group sharing. The toddler will likely
a.be surprised
b. be unsurprised
c.protest vocally
d.protest nonvocally
2) In Hagoorts language model, the memory component is mediated by the_________,
the unification component by the___________, and the control component by
the_________.
a. inferior frontal cortex ; temporal lobe ; lateral frontal cortex
b. inferior frontal cortex ; lateral frontal cortex ; temporal lobe
c. temporal lobe ; lateral frontal cortex ; inferior frontal cortex
d. temporal lobe ; inferior frontal gyrus ; lateral frontal cortex
3) In developing phrenology, Galls main failure was that
a.he did not seek disconfirming evidence.
b. he was not a scientist.
c.his method was correlational.
d. all of the above.
4) The observation that extinction is worse when identical, rather than different, stimuli
are simultaneously presented to the ipsilesional and contralesional sides of the visual
field indicates that
a. neglected stimuli do not undergo perceptual processing in the absence of focused
attention.
b. neglected stimuli undergo perceptual processing in the absence of focused attention.
c. neglected stimuli can capture attention involuntarily.
d. neglected stimuli are often confused with stimuli that are successfully attended.
5) Which of the following statements best describes the population vector associated
with a reaching movement from left to right?
a. The population vector shifts from right to left only while the arm is actually moving.
b. The population vector shifts from left to right only after the arm has moved and
stopped.
c. The population vector shifts from left to right only while the arm is actually moving.
d. The population vector shifts from left to right before the arm begins to move.
6) A nearly ERP component associated with morphosyntactic violations is the
a.LAN.
b.N400.
c. P600.
d.MMN. P600.
7) Which of the following is a catecholamine?
a. gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
b. glutamate
c.serotonin
d.norepinephrine
8) Sherrington (1947) surgically disconnected spinal motor neurons from cortical and
subcortical motor centers in laboratory animals. Which of the following statements is
true about the subsequent motor behavior of these animals?
a. The animals could still generate voluntary movements, but reflexive responses were
disrupted.
b. Reflexive responses were intact, but complex voluntary movements were disrupted.
c. The animals showed normal motor function as long as sensory inputs from the dorsal
root were also severed.
d. The animals became completely motionless and unresponsive to stimulation.
9) A current controversy regarding the usefulness of Brocas aphasia as a diagnostic
category focuses on the observation that
a.there is no strict correspondence between lesions of Brocas area and the symptoms
classically associated with Brocas aphasia.
b. Brocas aphasia is far too frequently diagnosed and may actually subsume other
subtypes of aphasia.
c.Brocas aphasia has been found to occur as a result of right hemisphere injury just as
often as left hemisphere injury.
d. Brocas aphasia is usually a secondary aphasia rather than a selective deficit.
10) In an experiment with patients, a group of researchers used nonlinguistic
hierarchical shape stimuli such as the example here. How did the results differ from
those obtained with hierarchical letter stimuli?
a.The results were the same regardless of whether letter stimuli or shape stimuli were
used.
b. Neither patient group showed any local impairments when shape stimuli were used
instead of letters.
c.Neither patient group showed any global impairments when shape stimuli were used
instead of letters.
d. Neither patient group showed global or local impairments when shape stimuli were
used instead of letters.
11) A patient reports that she is functionally blind after a focal brain injury, even though
her eyes and optic nerves are completely intact. Of the structures listed here, the most
probable location for the brain injury is the
a.inferior colliculus.
b. lateral geniculate nucleus.
c.superior temporal lobe.
d. postcentral gyrus.
12) The term__________ refers to the idea that a complex perceptual stimulus can be
described on multiple levels of detail.
a.dichotomania
b. hierarchical structure
c.generative assembling device
d. heterotopic mapping
13) Konishi’s model of spartial hearing in the barn owl posits that interaural time is
computed using , whereas interaural intensity differences are computed using
__________ .
a. relative rate of firing ; coincidence detectors
b. coincidence detectors ; relative rate of firing
c. unimodal processing ; multimodal integration
d. multimodal integration ; unimodal processing
14) You are watching a show on TV while speaking on your cell phone to a loved one.
A commercial with a couple fighting appears. Suddenly, the person says something on
the phone and you get irritated. The person on the other side of the line is perplexed by
your response. This is an example of
a.the interpreter.
b. left hemisphere brain activity.
c. rationalization.
d. all of the above.
15) Before entering the brain, each optic nerve splits into two branches so that
information from__________ half of each retina crosses to the opposite side of the
brain.
a. nasal (medial)
b. temporal (lateral)
c. left (dorsal)
d. right (ventral)
16) One finding demonstrated by the Posner spatial cuing task (1980) is that
a. the focus of attention can be moved separately from eye fixation.
b. valid cues cause a slowing in reaction time to detect targets.
c. invalid cues cause a speeding of reaction time to detect targets.
d. neutral cues produce the greatest change in reaction time.