PSY 0510 Exam 1 Review Questions
and All Correct Answers.
temporal lobe; FFA - Answer An area in the _______ called the ___________ is specialized to
recognize faces.
Double dissociation - Answer A researcher finds that damage to Area A of the brain results in
the loss of Function A but not Function B. In another individual, damage to Area B results in the
loss of Function B but not Function A. These results are best described as a/an
Ablation - Answer A procedure in which a particular area of the brain is removed or
destroyed.
Discriminating between objects - Answer In Ungerleider and Mishkin's (1982) research,
monkeys who had had their temporal lobes removed had difficulty
"what" pathway - Answer The ventral pathway has also been labeled the _________
pathway.
Ocular dominance - Answer Neurons respond preferentially to the right eye or the left eye.
This phenomenon is referred to as
Prosopagnosia - Answer The difficulty recognizing familiar faces
Monkey's face - Answer An IT neuron in the monkey will fire briskly when presented a
picture of a
retinotopic map - Answer The ________ can be described as the electronic map of the retina
on the cortex.
The small area of the fovea accounts for a large area on the cortex - Answer The cortical
magnification factor occurs in humans because
Contrast - Answer The difference in intensity between the light bars and the dark bars is
called
and All Correct Answers.
temporal lobe; FFA - Answer An area in the _______ called the ___________ is specialized to
recognize faces.
Double dissociation - Answer A researcher finds that damage to Area A of the brain results in
the loss of Function A but not Function B. In another individual, damage to Area B results in the
loss of Function B but not Function A. These results are best described as a/an
Ablation - Answer A procedure in which a particular area of the brain is removed or
destroyed.
Discriminating between objects - Answer In Ungerleider and Mishkin's (1982) research,
monkeys who had had their temporal lobes removed had difficulty
"what" pathway - Answer The ventral pathway has also been labeled the _________
pathway.
Ocular dominance - Answer Neurons respond preferentially to the right eye or the left eye.
This phenomenon is referred to as
Prosopagnosia - Answer The difficulty recognizing familiar faces
Monkey's face - Answer An IT neuron in the monkey will fire briskly when presented a
picture of a
retinotopic map - Answer The ________ can be described as the electronic map of the retina
on the cortex.
The small area of the fovea accounts for a large area on the cortex - Answer The cortical
magnification factor occurs in humans because
Contrast - Answer The difference in intensity between the light bars and the dark bars is
called
