1) The primary visual cortex, or V1, is located in
a. the striate cortex.
b. Brodmann area 17.
c.the calcarine fissure.
d.all of the above.
2) Which of the following terms refers to the idea of a continuous mass of tissue that
shares a common cytoplasm?
a.synapse
b. syncytium
c. striatum
d. claustrum
3) The ease with which a cell membrane will permit ions to cross it is referred to as
a. the concentration gradient.
b. permeability.
c. the action potential.
d. conductivity.
4) You meet a Capgras syndrome patient who insists their spouse is an imposter. Why
do they think this?
a.They recognize their spouse but feel no emotion toward them.
b. They feel emotion to their spouse but do not recognize them.
c.Their face identification module is providing false information.
d. Their face identification module is not providing any information.
5) Which of the following is true regarding the amygdala and indirect evaluations of
racial bias?
a. White participants who show greater amygdala activity during the presentation of
black faces tend to have stronger racial bias as measured by an implicit behavioral task.
b. People with bilateral amygdala damage do not show evidence of a racial bias on
implicit behavioral tasks.
c. Choices a and b are both correct.
d. Neither a nor b is correct.
6) Mirror cells are neurons in the _________ cortex that respond when an animal
produces a particular movement and when the animal _________.
a. parietal ; perceives another animal producing the same movement
b. parietal ; produces the mirror image of the same movement
c. premotor ; perceives another animal producing the same movement
d. premotor ; produces the mirror image of the same movement
7) Baron-Cohen has proposed that people with __________ have impaired
theory-of-mind abilities, coining the term mindblindness.
a.aphasia
b. agnosia
c.agraphia
d. autism
8) What can you infer about the responsiveness of two neurons in the visual cortex that
lie next to each other in V1?
a.Both cells share a common receptive field.
b. The cells are sensitive to precisely the same stimulus characteristics.
c.The receptive fields of these cells are also next to each other.
d. Both cells have identical baseline activity rates.
9) Patients with extinction are unable to detect a visual stimulus presented on the
contralesional side of space if
a. the stimulus is presented alone in the visual field.
b. this stimulus is presented at the same time as a stimulus on the ipsilesional side of the
visual field.
c. there is no cue that precedes the stimulus.
d. the stimulus is presented with another at a more lateral position in the contralesional
visual field.
10) Optic ataxia is an inability to
a. name familiar objects.
b. read, acquired as an adult.
c. recognize familiar visual objects.
d. use visual information to guide movements.
11) John spots a snake in the forest. He immediately runs away from it and then notes
that he is scared as he is running. Which of the following theories would suggest that
his feeling of fear is dependent on parallel systems for emotional responses and their
conscious identification?
a. cognitive interpretation theory
b. constructivist theories
c. evolutionary theories
d. LeDouxs high road and low road theory
12) __________ specifically refers to the variations in the pitch of a speakers voice that
convey emotion and emphasis in speech.
a.Phonology
b. Prosody
c.Speech segmentation
d. Orthography
13) Raine (2002) has argued that_______factors play a role in determining whether
someone exhibits violent behavior
a.genetic
b. environmental
c.both genetic and environmental
d.neither genetic nor environmental
14) Wild dogs developed the characteristics of domestic dogs as fear in hibition
a.increased.
b.decreased.
c.was completely removed.
d.was genetically engineered.
15) Rationalism is the philosophical position that knowledge
a.originates from sensory experience.
b. must be experimentally tested.
c.must be deduced and justified through reason.
d. is globally distributed in the cortex.