PSB 4240 Exam 1 | Questions with 100% Correct Answers
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PSB 4240 Exam 1 | Questions with 100% Correct Answers Following damage to his frontal lobes, subject L. D. had lasting impairments in: Attention Neuropsychology uses information from many disciplines. Which discipline is NOT one of those? Mycology Communication between cerebral hemispheres occur...
Following damage to his frontal lobes, subject L. D. had lasting impairments in:
Attention
Neuropsychology uses information from many disciplines. Which discipline is NOT one
of those?
Mycology
Communication between cerebral hemispheres occurs via the:
corpus callosum
The folds or bumps characteristic of the cerebral cortex are called:
Gyri
The corpus callosum is the largest of the brain's:
Commissures
The brain and spinal cord together make up the _____ nervous system.
Central
Which of the following supported a cardiac hypothesis of behavior?
Aristole
Descartes was an articulate proponent of _____.
Dualism
If a person believes that brain function is only the source of some behaviors, it is
accurate to refer to that person as a:
Dualist
With respect to the "mind-brain" problem, followers of Wallace and Darwin would MOST
likely consider themselves to be _____.
Materialists
Two individuals developed similar theories of evolution at about the same time. Charles
Darwin was one; the other was _____.
Alfred Wallace
Materialism is the philosophical position that all behavior can be explained by the:
workings of the physical nervous system and body alone
,Darwin's principle that all animals' nervous systems evolved from that of a common
ancestor predicted that:
brain-behavior relationships have remained largely unchanged during the course of
evolution
Although the phrenologists were misguided in many respects, Gall actually did report,
more or less accurately, the first case of _____ following left frontal damage.
loss of the ability to speak
Early support for lateralization and localization of function came from postmortem
studies of:
human with language disorders
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.
Broca
The hypothesis that the ability to speak depends on the left frontal lobe is an example
of:
lateralization of function
The cortical area MOST closely associated with speech comprehension is the _____
lobe.
Temporal
Apraxia is the inability to:
make sequences of movements
The currently used medical diagnosis "persistent vegetative state" MOST closely
reflects the nervous system's:
hierarchical organization
A person who cannot understand how the brain ties together past perceptions and
actions in a unified memory is pondering:
the binding problem
The scientist who discovers how a unitary perception is made from multiple streams of
sensory information will have solved the:
binding problem
Sherrington's studies of the reflex arc in dogs led him to conclude that:
there are gaps between individual communicating neurons
The scientific discipline BEST associated with the development of intelligence tests is:
neurology
, Which subdivision of the peripheral nervous system is responsible for the transmission
of sensory signals from the body to the contralateral side of the brain?
the somatic
The brain is organized so that the _____ mediates cognitive functions, the _____ is
responsible for regulatory functions like eating and sleeping, and the _____ is
responsible for communication with the motor system.
forebrain, brainstem, spinal cord
Who thought that mental processes came from the heart, not the brain?
Aristole
If someone believes in a material brain that interacts with a nonmaterial mind, that
person would be BEST called a _____.
Dualist
According to Descartes, which human brain structure was the locus of the mind?
the pineal body
In terms of the similarity of their ideas about nature, who is Alfred Wallace BEST paired
with?
Charles Darwin
Gall and Spurzheim were the first to propose the general theory that _____.
different parts of the brain had different functions
Today, when neuroscientists use the term "mind," most are using it as shorthand for:
the collective functions of the brain
A cranioscopy was used for which purpose?
to measure the bumps and depressions of the skull
From studying several cases of brain damage, who proposed that speech was located
in the third convolution of the left frontal lobe?
Paul broca
So-called fluent aphasia, associated with damage to the left temporal lobe, was first
accurately described and located by _____.
Carl Wernicke
By studying individuals with damage to particular brain regions, memory researchers
have found that different aspects of memories seem to be stored in different parts of the
brain. As yet, however, the researchers have not determined how these elements are
combined into an integrated memory of an event or stimulus. This is referred to as the
_____ problem.
binding
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