, 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.
2. Neuropsychology uses information from many disciplines. Which discipline is
NOT one of those?
A) ethology
B) pharmacology
C) biophysics
D) mycology
3. Communication between cerebral hemispheres occurs via the:
A) somatic nerves.
B) lateral fissure.
C) arcuate fasciculus.
D) corpus callosum.
4. The folds or bumps characteristic of the cerebral cortex are called:
A) gyri.
B) sulci.
C) lobes.
D) nuclei.
5. The corpus callosum is the largest of the brain's:
A) subcortical nuclei.
B) commissures.
C) cortical lobes.
D) sensory nerves
6. The brain and spinal cord together make up the _____ nervous system.
A) autonomic
B) peripheral
C) central
D) somatic
7. Which of the following supported a cardiac hypothesis of behavior?
A) Plato
B) Galen
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,C) Aristotle
D) Hippocrates
8. Descartes was an articulate proponent of _____.
A) monism
B) dualism
C) the cardiac hypothesis
D) nonmaterialism
9. If a person believes that brain function is only the source of some behaviors, it is
accurate to refer to that person as a:
A) mentalist.
B) behaviorist.
C) materialist.
D) dualist.
10. With respect to the “mind–brain” problem, followers of Wallace and Darwin
would MOST likely consider themselves to be _____.
A) mentalists
B) materialists
C) dualists
D) agnostics
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
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.
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.
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, 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.
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) loss of the ability to speak
D) personality change
15. Early support for lateralization and localization of function came from
postmortem studies of:
A) humans who had recovered function following stroke.
B) decorticate dogs trained on memory tasks.
C) regional differences in cell density.
D) humans with language disorders.
16. 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
17. The hypothesis that the ability to speak depends on the left frontal lobe is an
example of:
A) antilocalizationism.
B) lateralization of function.
C) mentalism.
D) phrenology.
18. The cortical area MOST closely associated with speech comprehension is the
_____ lobe.
A) temporal
B) frontal
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