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1. Following damage to his frontal lobes, subject L.D. had lasting impairments in:
a. visual perception.
b. attention.
c. motor-skill acquisition.
d. balance.
ANSWER: b
2. Neuropsychology uses information from many disciplines. Which discipline is NOT one of those?
a. ethology
b. pharmacology
c. biophysics
d. mycology
ANSWER: d
3. Communication between cerebral hemispheres occurs via the:
a. somatic nerves.
b. lateral fissure.
c. arcuate fasciculus.
d. corpus callosum.
ANSWER: d
4. Which brain structures create boundaries within the lobes of the brain?
a. gyri and sulci
b. sulci and fissures
c. lobes
d. forebrain and spinal cord
ANSWER: a
5. The corpus callosum is the largest of the brain's:
a. subcortical nuclei.
b. commissures.
c. cortical lobes.
d. sensory nerves.
ANSWER: b
6. The brain and spinal cord together make up the _____ nervous system.
a. autonomic
b. peripheral
c. central
d. somatic
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ANSWER: c
7. Which individual prompted such phrases as “put your heart into it” and “wore his heart on his sleeve” in
regards to the relationship between the heart and behavior?
a. Plato
b. Galen
c. Aristotle
d. Hippocrates
ANSWER: c
8. Descartes was an articulate proponent of:
a. monism.
b. dualism.
c. the cardiac hypothesis.
d. nonmaterialism.
ANSWER: b
9. If a person believes that brain function is the source of only some behaviors, it is accurate to refer to that
person as a:
a. mentalist.
b. behaviorist.
c. materialist.
d. dualist.
ANSWER: d
10. With respect to the “mind–body” problem, followers of Wallace and Darwin would MOST likely consider
themselves to be:
a. mentalists.
b. materialists.
c. dualists.
d. agnostics.
ANSWER: b
11. Two individuals developed similar theories of evolution at about the same time. Charles Darwin was one;
the other was:
a. William Osler.
b. Pierre Flourens.
c. Pierre Marie.
d. Alfred Wallace.
ANSWER: d
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12. Materialism is the philosophical position that all behavior can be explained by the:
a. workings of the physical nervous system and body alone.
b. interaction of the physical brain and nonphysical soul.
c. motivated pursuit of material well-being.
d. flow of cerebrospinal fluid between ventricles and muscles.
ANSWER: a
13. Darwin's principle that all animals' nervous systems evolved from that of a common ancestor predicted that:
a. all living things can in theory be traced back to the same ancient unknown ancestor.
b. over time, nervous systems have come to have increasingly more in common at the neural level.
c. functionally different structures in different species share common ancestral genes and mechanisms.
d. brain–behavior relationships have remained largely unchanged during the course of evolution.
ANSWER: d
14. Although the phrenologists were misguided in many respects, Gall actually did report, more or less
accurately, the first case of _____ following left frontal damage.
a. cortical blindness
b. hysterical paralysis
c. the loss of the ability to speak
d. personality change
ANSWER: c
15. Although all of the individuals listed made contributions to our knowledge of the lateralization of language
functions in the brain, _____ is generally credited with the MOST important findings.
a. Dax
b. Bouillaud
c. Marie
d. Broca
ANSWER: d
16. The cortical area MOST closely associated with speech comprehension is the _____ lobe.
a. temporal
b. frontal
c. occipital
d. parietal
ANSWER: a
17. Apraxia is the inability to:
a. learn a new motor skill.
b. produce articulate speech.
c. make sequences of movements.
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d. combine sensory stimuli into a coherent perception.
ANSWER: c
18. The currently used medical diagnosis persistent vegetative state MOST closely reflects the nervous
system's:
a. hierarchical organization.
b. conduction aphasia.
c. localization of function.
d. Hebb synapse.
ANSWER: a
19. A person who cannot understand how the brain ties together past perceptions and actions in a unified
memory is pondering:
a. apraxia.
b. the binding problem.
c. aphasia.
d. neuron theory.
ANSWER: b
20. The scientist who discovers how a unitary perception is made from multiple streams of sensory information
will have solved the:
a. mind–body problem.
b. binding problem.
c. problem of other minds.
d. laterality conundrum.
ANSWER: b
21. Sherrington's studies of the reflex arc in dogs led him to conclude that:
a. there are gaps between individual communicating neurons.
b. communicating neurons are directly connected with one another.
c. all neural communication is electrical in nature.
d. reflexes are coordinated by the pineal body, even in dogs.
ANSWER: a
22. The scientific discipline BEST associated with the development of intelligence tests is:
a. neurology.
b. psychosurgery.
c. psychometrics.
d. neuropsychology.
ANSWER: c
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1. Following damage to his frontal lobes, subject L.D. had lasting impairments in:
a. visual perception.
b. attention.
c. motor-skill acquisition.
d. balance.
ANSWER: b
2. Neuropsychology uses information from many disciplines. Which discipline is NOT one of those?
a. ethology
b. pharmacology
c. biophysics
d. mycology
ANSWER: d
3. Communication between cerebral hemispheres occurs via the:
a. somatic nerves.
b. lateral fissure.
c. arcuate fasciculus.
d. corpus callosum.
ANSWER: d
4. Which brain structures create boundaries within the lobes of the brain?
a. gyri and sulci
b. sulci and fissures
c. lobes
d. forebrain and spinal cord
ANSWER: a
5. The corpus callosum is the largest of the brain's:
a. subcortical nuclei.
b. commissures.
c. cortical lobes.
d. sensory nerves.
ANSWER: b
6. The brain and spinal cord together make up the _____ nervous system.
a. autonomic
b. peripheral
c. central
d. somatic
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ANSWER: c
7. Which individual prompted such phrases as “put your heart into it” and “wore his heart on his sleeve” in
regards to the relationship between the heart and behavior?
a. Plato
b. Galen
c. Aristotle
d. Hippocrates
ANSWER: c
8. Descartes was an articulate proponent of:
a. monism.
b. dualism.
c. the cardiac hypothesis.
d. nonmaterialism.
ANSWER: b
9. If a person believes that brain function is the source of only some behaviors, it is accurate to refer to that
person as a:
a. mentalist.
b. behaviorist.
c. materialist.
d. dualist.
ANSWER: d
10. With respect to the “mind–body” problem, followers of Wallace and Darwin would MOST likely consider
themselves to be:
a. mentalists.
b. materialists.
c. dualists.
d. agnostics.
ANSWER: b
11. Two individuals developed similar theories of evolution at about the same time. Charles Darwin was one;
the other was:
a. William Osler.
b. Pierre Flourens.
c. Pierre Marie.
d. Alfred Wallace.
ANSWER: d
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12. Materialism is the philosophical position that all behavior can be explained by the:
a. workings of the physical nervous system and body alone.
b. interaction of the physical brain and nonphysical soul.
c. motivated pursuit of material well-being.
d. flow of cerebrospinal fluid between ventricles and muscles.
ANSWER: a
13. Darwin's principle that all animals' nervous systems evolved from that of a common ancestor predicted that:
a. all living things can in theory be traced back to the same ancient unknown ancestor.
b. over time, nervous systems have come to have increasingly more in common at the neural level.
c. functionally different structures in different species share common ancestral genes and mechanisms.
d. brain–behavior relationships have remained largely unchanged during the course of evolution.
ANSWER: d
14. Although the phrenologists were misguided in many respects, Gall actually did report, more or less
accurately, the first case of _____ following left frontal damage.
a. cortical blindness
b. hysterical paralysis
c. the loss of the ability to speak
d. personality change
ANSWER: c
15. Although all of the individuals listed made contributions to our knowledge of the lateralization of language
functions in the brain, _____ is generally credited with the MOST important findings.
a. Dax
b. Bouillaud
c. Marie
d. Broca
ANSWER: d
16. The cortical area MOST closely associated with speech comprehension is the _____ lobe.
a. temporal
b. frontal
c. occipital
d. parietal
ANSWER: a
17. Apraxia is the inability to:
a. learn a new motor skill.
b. produce articulate speech.
c. make sequences of movements.
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d. combine sensory stimuli into a coherent perception.
ANSWER: c
18. The currently used medical diagnosis persistent vegetative state MOST closely reflects the nervous
system's:
a. hierarchical organization.
b. conduction aphasia.
c. localization of function.
d. Hebb synapse.
ANSWER: a
19. A person who cannot understand how the brain ties together past perceptions and actions in a unified
memory is pondering:
a. apraxia.
b. the binding problem.
c. aphasia.
d. neuron theory.
ANSWER: b
20. The scientist who discovers how a unitary perception is made from multiple streams of sensory information
will have solved the:
a. mind–body problem.
b. binding problem.
c. problem of other minds.
d. laterality conundrum.
ANSWER: b
21. Sherrington's studies of the reflex arc in dogs led him to conclude that:
a. there are gaps between individual communicating neurons.
b. communicating neurons are directly connected with one another.
c. all neural communication is electrical in nature.
d. reflexes are coordinated by the pineal body, even in dogs.
ANSWER: a
22. The scientific discipline BEST associated with the development of intelligence tests is:
a. neurology.
b. psychosurgery.
c. psychometrics.
d. neuropsychology.
ANSWER: c
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