1) Keeles work with people with Parkinsons disease suggests that they may have
difficulties in which of the following cognitive operations?
a. discriminating scents
b. spatial memory
c. facial recognition
d. set shifting
2) The primary visual pathway is best described as
a.retina optic nerve hypothalamus superior colliculus occipital lobe.
b.retina cochlea optic chiasm thalamus occipital lobe.
c.retina optic nerve optic chiasm thalamus occipital lobe.
d.retina hippocampus thalamus superior colliculus occipital lobe.
3) Many biologists have not accepted
a.reductionism.
b.determinism.
c.multiple realizability.
d.consciousness.
4) Injury to all of the following brain areas EXCEPT__________ will result in a
scotoma.
a.MT
b. V1
c. LGN (lateral geniculate nucleus)
d. Brodmann area 17
5) Based on what you know about the neurophysiological and microanatomical
differences between the right and left hemispheres, choose the option here that correctly
lists the properties of cortical tissue samples taken from the left hemisphere.
a.relatively greater dendritic branching, relatively dense packing of cortical columns
b. relatively less dendritic branching, relatively dense packing of cortical columns
c.relatively greater dendritic branching, relatively loose packing of cortical columns
d. relatively less dendritic branching, relatively loose packing of cortical columns
6) People with damage to the orbitofrontal cortex tend to be__________of their social
mistakes in the moment,___________become embarrassed by them if they view a
video of themselves after the fact.
a.aware ; and they also
b. aware ; but they do not
c.unaware ; but they do
d. unaware ; and they do not
7) The information that you are currently thinking about, perceiving, or using to guide
responding is held in this type of memory store.
a.source memory
b. anterograde memory
c.working memory
d. implicit memory
8) Some theories of emotion employ a factor approach. In one conceptualization, the
first factor is __________, or how pleasant or unpleasant the stimulus is, and the second
factor is __________, or how intense the emotional response is.
a. arousal ; valence
b. valence ; arousal
c. excitation ; benignity
d. benignity ; excitation
9) The P1 ERP is associated most closely with the
a. direction of attention to the spatial location of a visually presented object.
b. pop-out of feature-based visual targets in visual search.
c. direction of attention to the specific ear through which a particular signal is
presented.
d. increased activity of cells in the primary and secondary auditory cortex.
10) Single-cell recording studies have indicated that the _________ may be especially
important in the control of internally guided motor sequences, whereas the _________
may be especially important in the control of externally guided motor sequences.
a. supplementary motor cortex ; premotor cortex
b. premotor cortex ; supplementary motor cortex
c. basal ganglia ; cerebellum
d. cerebellum ; basal ganglia
11) The self-referent effect refers to the phenomenon that
a.social judgments about oneself tend to be biased.
b.social judgments about oneself tend to be highly accurate.
c.information processed in relation to the self is distorted in memory.
d.information processed in relation to the self is enhanced in memory.
12) The concept of words in the same neighborhood is analogous to which of the
following in the semantic domain?
a.words that rhyme
b. words that are spelled similarly
c.words related in meaning
d. none of the above
13) Which of the following areas has a key role in implementing fair behaviors?
a.right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
b. left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
c.right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex
d. left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex
14) Information about which of the following senses does NOT pass through the
thalamus on the way to the cortex?
a.audition
b. olfaction
c. gustation
d. somatosensation
15) One of the experimental strengths of brain-lesion methods in animals, compared to
human neuropsychology, is that
a.animal work can be truly experimental, whereas with humans we are limited to
correlational inferences.
b. with animal work, we can be confident that the effect of a lesion eliminates the
contribution of a single structure.
c.humans, but not other animals, often develop compensatory strategies to minimize the
consequences of a lesion.
d. with animals, but not humans, we can create temporary lesions using transcranial
magnetic stimulation (TMS).
16) How are differences in individuals perception of the Ebbinghaus illusion reflected
in brain anatomy?
a.A larger illusion is found in people with a larger V1.
b. A smaller illusion is found in people with a larger V1.
c.A larger illusion is found in people with a larger V2/V3.
d. A smaller illusion is found in people with a larger V2/V3.
17) Which of the following statements best describes the immediate consequence of
neurotransmitter molecules binding to postsynaptic receptors?
a.Voltage-gated channels in the cell membrane open and permit ion flow through the
membrane.
b. The activity of the sodiumpotassium pumps increases.
c.Calcium absorption into the axon terminal cell is triggered.
d. Neurotransmitter-containing vesicles bind to the inside of the axon terminal
membrane.
18) The difference between gray matter and white matter is that gray matter refers to ,
whereas white matter refers to__________ .
a. protruding rounded surfaces ; fissures and invaginations
b. fissures and invaginations ; protruding rounded surfaces
c. cell bodies ; axons and glial cells
d. axons and glial cells ; cell bodies
19) A patient with progressive supranuclear palsy is suffering from gradual
deterioration of his superior colliculus. Which of the following statements best
describes the result of this disease?
a.The patient has intact acuity and shape perception, but he can no longer recognize
visual objects.
b. The patient demonstrates the phenomenon of blindsight.
c.The patient is cortically blind.
d. The patient is unable to initiate eye movements.
20) According to __________ theories of object recognition, when one sees an object
such as a bicycle, recognition depends on the ability to detect properties that do not
depend on specific viewing conditions.
a. view-invariant
b. viewer-centered
c. feature-analysis
d. perceptual-categorization