1. Most of the information passing
from one hemisphere to the
other does so by passing through
the __________.
A) cerebellum
B) inferior colliculus
C) corpus callosum
D) massa intermedia
2. The specialization of
function between the two
hemispheres is
known as __________.
A) lateralization
B) encephalization
C) polarization
D) somatization
3. The left hemisphere of the human
brain is connected to the
retinas of the eyes in such a way
that it sees the
A) left visual field.
B) right visual field.
C) left visual field of the left
eye and right visual field
of the right eye.
D) right visual field of the left
eye and left visual field
of the right eye.
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4. Severing the corpus callosum to
treat severe epilepsy
A) is preferable to the use of
drugs, since there are fewer
side effects.
B) also produces severe
intellectual and emotional
impairments.
C) was outlawed in 1968.
D) has been more effective than was
anticipated.
5. In order for a split-brain
patient to name something, he
or she must see it in the
A) left eye.
B) right eye.
C) left visual field.
D) right visual field.
6. Which of the following
self-contradictions occurs in people
who have had their corpus callosum
cut?
A) saying they are not hungry while
eating.
B) saying they do not know the answer
while pointing it out with the left
hand.
C) being awake on one side of the body
and asleep on the other.
D) suddenly changing from one
personality to another,
complete with different names.
7. For most people, which is
true about language abilities
in the right hemisphere?
A) they exceed those of the
left
B) they are equal to those of
the left
C) they are present, but not as
good as those of the left
D) they are nonexistent
8. Right-hemisphere damage causes
particularly great impairment
on tasks that require people to
A) imagine visual and spatial
information.
B) respond to weak visual stimuli,
just above the threshold
of detection.
C) name the objects they see.
D) coordinate movements of the
right hand with objects seen
in the right visual field.
9. The notion of cognitive styles, where
one person relies more on one
hemisphere and another person relies
more on the other,
A) is clearly supported by brain research
on hemispheric differences.
B) is more likely to be true in right
handed individuals.
C) is usually not true until early
adulthood.
D) is based partially on sound scientific
data, but is also based on an
assumption that is probably false.
10. Someone with Broca's
aphasia is least likely to
use which kind of word?
A) prepositions and
conjunctions
B) adjectives and adverbs
C) nouns
D) verbs
11. Someone suffering from
Wernicke's aphasia has
trouble in
A) articulating speech.
B) reading aloud.
C) understanding speech.
D) using prepositions and
conjunctions
12. What did Lashley mean by
the term "engram"?
A) a drug that facilitates
learning
B) the physical representation
of learning
C) a pathway between a sensory
area of the brain and a
motor area
D) an automatic response to a
sensory stimulus
13. Following damage to the
hippocampus and neighboring areas,
the patient H.M. has had a severe
impairment of
A) remembering events from long
before the operation.
B) remembering and repeating
something that just happened.
C) forming new memories and
recalling them later.
D) learning new motor skills.
14. Anterograde amnesia means
__________; retrograde amnesia
means __________.
A) temporary loss of memory ...
permanent loss of memory
B) loss of short-term memory ...
loss of long-term memory.
C) inability to form new memories
... loss of memory for
old events
D) loss of memory for old events
... inability to form new
memories
15. One peculiarity of the memory of the
neurological patient H.M. is that he
A) retains new skills but does not
remember having learned them.
B) forms new long-term memories but not
short-term
memories.
C) thinks he remembers certain events but
recalls the exact opposite of what
really happened.
D) remembers people's names but not which
name goes with which person.
16. What effect would you expect
in an animal that had bilateral
removal of the amygdala?
A) Loss of implicit memory
B) Loss of explicit memory
C) Loss of emotional memory
D) Loss of short term memory
17. In the context of memory, the
term consolidation refers to
A) the conversion of short term to
long-term memory.
B) rehearsl in short-term memory.
C) disruption of the formation of
long-term memory.
D) disruption of the formation of
short-term memory.
18. Korsakoff’s syndrome
can result in severe memory
deficits. Which of the
following is the cause of
Korsakoff’s syndrome?
A) Alcohol consumption
B) Bad diet
C) Aging
D) Genetics
19. Which of the following is true
of the cortical analysis of
music?
A) More analysis of music occurs on
the left hemisphere.
B) More analysis of music occurs on
the right hemisphere.
C) Music is equally represented on
both hemispheres.
D) Broca’s area is critical for the
analysis of music.
20. Thorndike’s puzzle boxes
are an early example of what
kind of learning?
A) Classical (Pavlovian)
conditioning
B) Avoidance conditioning
C) Operant (Skinnerian)
conditioning
D)Hebbian conditioning
• 21.The differences in the function of the
two cerebral hemispheres is sometimes
referred to as the study of
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a. split brains.
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b. commissurotomy.
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c. the great cerebral commissure.
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d. bilateral specialization.
e. lateralization of function.
22. Alzheimer's disease is characterized by
a. dementia.
b. amyloid plaques.
c. neural degeneration.
d. neurofibrillary tangles.
e. all of the above
23. Amyloid is an abnormal protein
found at autopsy in the brains of
patients with
a. Parkinson's disease.
b. Korsakoff's syndrome.
c. Alzheimer's disease.
d. Huntington's disease.
24. The discovery of the lateralization of
aphasia and apraxia led to the
a. concept of a dominant left
hemisphere.
b. concept of a dominant right
hemisphere.
c. development of commissurotomy.
d. study of split-brain patients.
25. Which of the following investigators,
along with Sperry, played a major role in
testing the original series of human
split-brain subjects?
a. Kimura
b. Gazzaniga
c. Milner
d. Petersen
26. Areas of the brain that interpret the
meaning of a word are said to be
performing a _____ analysis.
a. phonological
b. semantic
c. grammatical
d. phonemic
27. Consolidation is a hypothetical
process by which memories are
transferred from
a. mass action to equipotentiality.
b. equipotentiality to mass action.
c. a mode of short-term storage to a
mode of long-term storage.
d. the unconscious to the conscious.
e. a mode of long-term storage to a
mode of short-term storage.
28. According to Hebb's influential 1949
theory, short-term memories are stored
by
a. reverberatory neural activity.
b. the engram.
c. mass action.
d. synaptic facilitation.
29. H.M.'s greatest postsurgical problem
is his
a. anterograde amnesia.
b. retrograde amnesia.
c. deficit in short-term memory.
d. deficit on the digit-span test
30.In a nutshell, H.M.'s main problem
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seems to be that he
a. has no long-term memories.
b. can form no new long-term memories.
c. can form no new explicit (declarative)
long-term memories.
d. has a devastating retrograde amnesia
for remote events.