1) Wernicke is to__________as Broca is to__________ .
a. understanding speech ; speaking
b. speaking ; understanding speech
c. aggregate field theory ; topographic organization
d. aggregate field theory ; aggregate field theory
2) Which of the following is NOT a type of utilitarian justice?
a.restoration
b. deterrence
c.incapacitation
d. rehabilitation
3) A free rider in the Public Goods game will likely
a.do poorly.
b.do well.
c.help the group.
d.pay a contribution cost.
4) Which of the following is NOT a situation that you would expect to engage the
supervisory attentional system?
a.one that engages a specific schema control unit
b. one that requires planning or decision making
c.one that requires error detection
d. one that is difficult
5) Parkinsons disease results from cell death in the _________, which is a part of the
_________.
a. substantia nigra ; cerebellum
b. substantia nigra ; basal ganglia
c. striatum ; cerebellum
d. striatum ; basal ganglia
6) A patients symptoms include poor spoken and written comprehension but fluent and
reasonably grammatical speech output. Which part of this persons brain is most likely
damaged?
a.the anterior language areas in the right hemisphere
b. the posterior language areas in the right hemisphere
c.the anterior language areas in the left hemisphere
d. the posterior language areas in the left hemisphere
7) Following a focal brain injury, a patient shows great difficulty in discriminating tones
that differ in frequency. Which area of the cortex is most likely affected?
a.the superior temporal lobe
b. the inferior temporal lobe
c.the anterior parietal lobe
d. the posterior parietal lobe
8) Which of the following is NOT true of the amygdala?
a. It is highly interconnected with the forebrain.
b. It is involved in the encoding of memory.
c. It contains hormone receptors.
d. It contains peptide receptors.
9) In ERP studies of performance on the dichotic listening task, Hillyard and colleagues
(1973) found that attended signals are accompanied by a negative-polarity waveform
that is relatively large and peaks at approximately 180 milliseconds after stimulus
presentation. This waveform is called the auditory __________ potential.
a. N1
b. P3
c. ERF
d. sensory
10) The most caudal lobe of the cerebral cortex is the __________ lobe.
a.frontal
b. temporal
c.occipital
d. parietal
11) A patient with a frontal lobe lesion kneels and prays when watching another person
do the same thing in the middle of the cafeteria. This is an example of
a.deficits in planning complex behaviors.
b. perseveration in responding.
c.utilization behavior.
d. disruption of working memory.
12) Neuroimaging work has suggested that during the retrieval of a list of studied items,
the hippocampus is most active
a. for items that are correctly recollected as old items.
b. for items that are incorrectly recollected as old items.
c. for items that are correctly rejected as new items.
d. for items that are incorrectly rejected as new items.
13) In the nervous system, these cells provide structural support and insulation for
neurons.
a.glia
b. dendrites
c. mitochondria
d. Purkinje cells
14) Which of the following things would have been the most difficult for the famous
individual described by Carl Wernicke, compared to before his stroke?
a.understanding a speech
b. painting a picture
c.singing a song
d. riding a horse
15) When you are shown the written word neuroscience and you read it aloud, you are
translating___________information into__________information about this word
a. syntactic ; semantic
b. semantic ; orthographic
c.orthographic ; phonological
d. phonological ; syntactic
16) This type of early cell line is the precursor to the cells that will compose the
nervous system.
a. blastula
b. gastrula
c. endoderm
d. ectoderm