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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.
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B) attention.
C) motor-skill acquisition. v
D) balance.
2. Neuropsychology uses information from many disciplines. Which discipline is
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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. v
B) lateral fissure.
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C) arcuate fasciculus.
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D) corpus callosum.
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4. The folds or bumps characteristic of the cerebral cortex are called:
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A) gyri.
B) sulci.
C) lobes.
D) nuclei.
5. The corpus callosum is the largest of the brain's:
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A) subcortical nuclei. v
B) commissures.
C) cortical lobes.
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D) sensory nerves v
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
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,C) Aristotle
D) Hippocrates
8. Descartes was an articulate proponent of v v v v v .
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
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vaccurate to refer to that person as a: v v v v v v v
A) mentalist.
B) behaviorist.
C) materialist.
D) dualist.
10. With respect to the “mind–brain” problem, followers of Wallace and Darwin
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would MOST likely 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.
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Charles Darwin was one; the other was
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A) William Osler v
B) Pierre Flourens v
C) Pierre Marie v
D) Alfred Wallace v
12. Materialism is the philosophical position that all behavior can be explained by
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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. v v v v v v v
C) motivated pursuit of material well-being. v v v v
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
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common 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
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neural level.
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C) functionally different structures in different species share common ancestral genes
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and mechanisms.
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D) brain–behavior relationships have remained largely unchanged during the course of
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evolution.
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14. Although the phrenologists were misguided in many respects, Gall actually did
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report, more or less accurately, the first case of
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damage.
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A) cortical blindness v
B) hysterical paralysis v
C) loss of the ability to speak
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D) personality change v
15. Early support for lateralization and localization of function came from
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postmortem studies of:
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A) humans who had recovered function following stroke.
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B) decorticate dogs trained on memory tasks. v v v v v
C) regional differences in cell density.
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D) humans with language disorders.
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16. Although all of the individuals listed made contributions to our knowledge of the
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lateralization of language functions in the brain,
v is generally credited
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with the MOST important findings.
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A) Dax
B) Bouillaud
C) Marie
D) Broca
17. The hypothesis that the ability to speak depends on the left frontal lobe is an
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example of:
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A) antilocalizationism.
B) lateralization of function. v v
C) mentalism.
D) phrenology.
18. The cortical area MOST closely associated with speech comprehension is the
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lobe.
A) temporal
B) frontal
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