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1. Following damage to his frontal lobes, subject L. D. had lasting impairments in:
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A) visual perception. b-g




B) attention.

C) motor-skill acquisition. b-g




D) balance.



2. Neuropsychology uses information from many disciplines. Which discipline is NOT one of those?
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A) ethology

B) pharmacology

C) biophysics

D) mycology



3. Communication between cerebral hemispheres occurs via the:
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A) somatic nerves. b-g




B) lateral fissure. b-g




C) arcuate fasciculus. b-g




D) corpus callosum. b-g




4. The folds or bumps characteristic of the cerebral cortex are called:
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A) gyri.

B) sulci.

C) lobes.

D) nuclei.




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,5. The corpus callosum is the largest of the brain's:
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A) subcortical nuclei. b-g




B) commissures.

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D) sensory nerves b-g




6. The brain and spinal cord together make up the
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A) autonomic

B) peripheral

C) central

D) somatic



7. Which of the following supported a cardiac hypothesis of behavior?
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A) Plato

B) Galen

C) Aristotle

D) Hippocrates



8. Descartes was an articulate proponent of b-g b-g b-g b-g b-g .

A) monism

B) dualism

C) the cardiac hypothesis
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D) nonmaterialism



9. If a person believes that brain function is only the source of some behaviors, it is accurate to refer
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to that person as a:
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A) mentalist.

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, B) behaviorist.

C) materialist.

D) dualist.



10. With respect to the ―mind–brain‖ problem, followers of Wallace and Darwin would MOST likely
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consider themselves to be
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A) mentalists

B) materialists

C) dualists

D) agnostics



11. Two individuals developed similar theories of evolution at about the same time. Charles Darwin
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was one; the other was .
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A) William Osler b-g




B) Pierre Flourens b-g




C) Pierre Marie b-g




D) Alfred Wallace b-g




12. Materialism is the philosophical position that all behavior can be explained by the:
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A) workings of the physical nervous system and body alone.
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B) interaction of the physical brain and nonphysical soul. b-g b-g b-g b-g b-g b-g b-g




C) motivated pursuit of material well-being. b-g b-g b-g b-g




D) flow of cerebrospinal fluid between ventricles and muscles.
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13. Darwin's principle that all animals' nervous systems evolved from that of a common
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ancestor predicted that:
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A) all living things can in theory be traced back to the same ancient unknown ancestor.
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B) over time, nervous systems have come to have increasingly more in common at the neural level.
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