1) A jury is shown a defendants brain scan showing abnormal frontal lobe activity.
What can a person on the jury legitimately conclude from this evidence alone?
a.the defendant has diminished responsibility
b. the defendant has brain damage
c.both a and b
d. nothing because this may not have produced a particular thought or behavior
2) A rats performance on the Morris water maze, a test of spatial ability and memory,
will be affected in what way by a lesion to the amygdala?
a. The rat will be impaired in learning all aspects of the water maze.
b. The rat will not be impaired in a basic water maze task, but it will fail to show the
stronger retention that would otherwise be expected if the task includes a physical
stressor.
c. The rat will be impaired in the basic aspects of the water maze task, but it will still
show an improvement in retention if the task includes a physical stressor.
d. The rat will be unimpaired in learning the water maze task because the amygdala is
important only for the expression of previously learned conditioned responses.
3) is the science of simulating natural cognitive processes on computers.
a. Mental chronometry
b. Neuropsychology
c. Artificial intelligence
d. Cognitive psychology
4) Studies of the production of facial expressions suggest that although__________ can
generate spontaneous facial expressions, __________ can generate voluntary facial
expressions.
a.only the left hemisphere ; both hemispheres
b. only the right hemisphere ; both hemispheres
c.both hemispheres ; only the left hemisphere
d. both hemispheres ; only the right hemisphere
5) According to Levelt’s (1989) model of speech production, two main processing
stages are involved in generating a meaningful utterance. In the___________stage, the
speaker determines what he or she intends to express to the listener; in
the____________stage, word choices and the grammatical role that each word will play
are determined.
a.microplanning ; macroplanning
b. macroplanning ; lemma
c.microplanning ; lemma
d. macroplanning ; microplanning
6) Which of the following is NOT one of the basic tastes?
a.Acid
b. Bitter
c.Sweet
d. Umami
7) When a picture of a hammer is placed in front of Patient H, she is unable to identify
it. How can you determine if her difficulty is in recognizing the object or in simply
remembering its name?
a. Ask her to demonstrate its use rather than identifying it.
b. Ask her to close her eyes before attempting to name it.
c. Ask her to copy the picture of the object instead of naming it.
d. Ask her to trace the outline of the object instead of naming it.
8) The primary gustatory cortex is located in the
a. thalamus and hypothalamus.
b. hippocampus and amygdala.
c. pons and medulla.
d. insula and operculum.
9) The mechanism through which the amygdala modulates hippocampus-based learning
may be related to the observation that
a. arousing stimuli decay less quickly than nonarousing stimuli do.
b. arousing stimuli decay more quickly than nonarousing stimuli do.
c. arousing stimuli are more likely to create interference effects.
d. arousing stimuli are less likely to create interference effects.
10) In a round of the Ultimatum Game, player 1 decides to split $20 by keeping $16
and offering $4 to player 2. Player 2 is most likely to
a.free ride.
b. accept the offer.
c.reject the offer.
d. accept part of the offer.
11) You receive a text message that reads What time do you want to have lunch
tomorrow night? Which word would lead to an N400 for you?
a.time
b. you
c.tomorrow
d. night
12) In the task-switching experiment between a digit task and a letter task, a digit or
letter response was indicated by a word or by a color. Which of these conditions was
particularly problematic when switching between digits and letters for frontal lobe
patients?
a.letters indicated by words
b. digits indicated by colors
c.digits indicated by words
d. none of the above
13) The ability to direct attention independently of gaze or eye fixation is called
a. overt attention.
b. covert attention.
c. the attentional spotlight.
d. visual search.
14) A person with apperceptive visual agnosia has difficulty in recognizing drawings of
familiar objects, such as an apple. If she were asked to imagine an apple rather than to
inspect a picture of an apple, you would expect to find that
a. she can generate visual images normally because agnosia does not affect internally
generated information.
b. she has great difficulty in generating visual images as well as visual perception
because the two skills share common brain regions.
c. she can generate visual images correctly and easily, but she cannot recognize them
because of a memory deficit.
d. she has great difficulty with generating images of faces but not other kinds of objects.