1) For situations in which no routine procedure can be used to generate an appropriate
response, which type of mechanism is used to select the best schema control unit for
translation into action?
a.the somatic marker hypothesis
b. utilization behavior
c.the supervisory attentional system
d. source encoding
2) What were the circumstances under which Phineas Gage sustained his brain injury?
a.a 20-foot fall during construction of the Eiffel Tower that resulted in coup-contra-coup
injury
b. a gunshot wound during the Battle of Gettysburg that penetrated his skull
c.an explosion while laying a Vermont railway that sent a tamping iron through his head
d. a shipwreck off the coast of Australia that deprived his brain of oxygen for 10
minutes
3) __________ is the idea that a stimulus does not have to be completely analyzed
before it can be either selected for further processing or rejected as irrelevant.
a. Sensory arousal
b. Dichotic perception
c. Early selection
d. Late selection
4) The view known as aggregate field theory, which stated that the whole brain
participates in behavior, is most associated with
a.Broca.
b. Hughlings Jackson.
c.Brodmann.
d. Flourens.
5) Hillyard and colleagues (1973) recorded event-related potentials (ERP) from
participants while they performed a dichotic listening task. When comparing the ERPs
collected when participants attended to a given signal to when they ignored this signal,
the researchers found that auditory ERPs
a. began later for attended versus unattended signals.
b. began earlier for attended versus unattended signals.
c. were larger for attended versus unattended signals.
d. were smaller for attended versus unattended signals.
6) Which brain structure is located in the medial temporal lobe and is of particular
importance in the formation of new long-term memories?
a. the hypothalamus
b. the colliculus
c. the hippocampus
d. the caudate
7) Which of the following resulted in the significant personality changes observed in
Phineas Gage?
a.Parkinsons disease
b. temporal lobe epilepsy
c.orbitofrontal damage
d. limbic damage
8) You have isolated a neuron in the occipital lobes that you believe is responsible for
processing information about color. What type of neurophysiological technique would
allow you to assess this hypothesis in a living animal?
a.single-cell recording
b. histology
c.electrical stimulation
d. Golgi stain
9) Implicit memory is to __________ as explicit memory is to __________.
a. priming ; episodic memory
b. conditioning ; priming
c. episodic memory ; semantic memory
d. procedural learning ; nondeclarative learning
10) When participants in a dichotic listening task with word stimuli are asked afterward
to report as many items as possible, they consistently produce the words that were
presented to the right ear much more frequently than the words that were presented to
the left ear. This phenomenon is called
a.binaural integration.
b. the word superiority effect.
c. the right-ear advantage.
d. the frequency hypothesis.
11) One reason that early research on specific human cognitive capacities and the brain
areas that are responsible for them developed rather slowly before the twentieth century
is that
a.most early investigators were limited to postmortem studies to localize lesions.
b. investigators did not know the brain was separated into two hemispheres until the
twentieth century.
c.most early investigators focused on studying the brainbehavior relationship in animals
rather than in humans.
d. there was little interest in this field until the twentieth century.
12) Paul Brocas first patient Leborgne was able to produce which of the following
words?
a. merci
b. tan
c. trois
d. Paris
13) What part of the brain does an angiogram allow you to visualize?
a.ventricles
b. meninges
c.cell bodies
d. arteries
14) Declarative or explicit memory is knowledge that
a. one can access consciously.
b. one cannot access consciously.
c. is a form of sensory memory.
d. is a form of short-term memory.
15) Dr. Joseph Bogen operated on patient W.J. in order to relieve which symptoms?
a.seizures
b. cold sweats
c. dizziness
d. memory loss
16) Neurons in two different regions of Brodmanns cytoarchitectonic map always
a.use different types of neurotransmitters to communicate.
b. differ in cell morphology and organization.
c.lie inside different lobes of the cerebral cortex.
d. are separated by fissures in the cortex.
17) Robertson and colleagues (1988) investigated possible asymmetries in the
processing of hierarchical figures by people who had suffered unilateral brain injuries.
They found that patients with injuries to the left hemisphere had difficulty in identifying
__________ right hemisphere had difficulty in identifying__________ elements, and
patients with injuries to the elements.
a.the global ; the local
b. the local ; the global
c.the local ; both local and global
d. both local and global ; the global
18) Injury to which brain structure results in a deficit in moving focused attention from
a particular location in the visual field to another?
a. the posterior parietal lobe
b. the pulvinar nucleus of the thalamus
c. the superior colliculus
d. the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus
19) Whereas the_____________will be most active during the encoding of a face
stimulus,the_________will be active during the delay period.
a.prefrontal gyrus ; fusiform gyrus
b.fusiform gyrus ; prefrontal cortex
c.anterior cingulate ; hippocampus
d.hippocampus ; anterior cingulate
20) You encounter an aphasic patient with language deficits resulting from brain injury.
You are also likely to also observe hemiparesis on the________ side of the body, which
would indicate that the___________ hemisphere is especially critical to language
function.
a.left ; left
b.left ; right
c.right ; left
d.right ; right