Practice Questions

1. Who coined the term
‘neuropsychology’ and conducted early animal experiments intended to localize a memory trace or ‘engram’?
a) Sperry b) Lashley c) Hebb d) Pinel e) Korsakoff

2. What term is commonly used as a synonym for biopsychology?
a) psychopsychology b) psychophysiology c) behavioral endocrinology d) behavioral neuroscience e) behavioural pharmacology

3. A cut in which of the following planes would separate the brain into a top
(dorsal) and bottom (ventral) part?
a) Coronal b) Frontal c) Horizontal d) Sagittal e) Midsagittal

4. Which type of glial cells cover the outer surfaces of blood vessels and form a physical matrix to hold neural circuits together?
a) astrocytes b) Schwann cells c) Oligodendrocytes d) Microglia e) Microsites

5. Comparison…
Gray matter is to white matter as: a) soma is to myelinated fiber b) dendrite is to soma c) golgi complex is to ribosome d) vesicle is to microtubule e) synapse is to bouton

6. Comparison…
In general, presynaptic is to postsynaptic as: a) axon is to dendrite b) dendrite is to axon c) terminal bouton is to dendritic spine d) dendritic spine is to terminal bouton e) none of the above f) both A and C

7. Cell bodies of multipolar motor neurons are located in the spinal
_____________ matter and project to the __________ via the ___________ root.
a) white; brain; dorsal b) gray; brain; ventral c) white; muscle; ventral d) gray; muscle; dorsal e) gray; muscle; ventral

8. Which brain structure has a dual affiliation with cortex and limbic system?
a) amygdala b) fornix c) massa intermedia d) globus pallidus e) putamen nucleus f) hippocampus

9. What is the series of connections between brain structures that form basal ganglia loops.
a) cortico-striato-pallidal-thalamocortical b) cortico-pallido-striatal-thalamocortical c) striato-cortical-pallido-thalamic d) striato-pallidal-cortico-thalamic e) nigro-striato-thalamo-cortical

10. Which structure is NOT part of the tegmentum?
a) superior colliculus b) red nucleus c) substantia nigra d) periaqueductal gray e) none of the above

11. Which of the following thalamic nuclei relays auditory information?
a) lateral geniculate nucleus b) medial geniculate nucleus c) ventral geniculate nucleus d) posterior geniculate nucleus e) dorsal nucleus

12. The _____________ fissure borders the temporal and frontal cortices.
a) medial b) lateral c) longitudinal d) central e) posterior

13. Combining divisions of neuroscience and biopsychology, the study of how the interaction between the nervous system and endocrine system influences behavior may be called
_____________ .
a) Psychoendocrinology b) Neuroendocrinology c) Biopsychoendocrinology d) Psychoneuroendocrinology

14. The study by Whitleson showed
Einstein’s brain had __________.
a) larger parietal lobes b) a confluence of fissures c) a knob in the motor cortex d) Both a and b e) All of the above

15. The year 1949 is notable because
_______________.
a) Hebb’s book was published b) Egas Moniz won the nobel prize c) Lashley localized an engram d) Both a and b e) All of the above

16. Cutting the brain like a salami (90 degrees to the long axis) gives a
_____________ section which does not show the _________axis.
a) Horizontal; anterior-posterior b) Sagittal; dorsal-ventral c) Coronal; anterior-posterior d) Cross-section; rostral-caudal e) Frontal; medial-lateral

17. Sensory information enters the spinal cord through the _____________ route and motor information projects from the _________ horn.
a) Dorsal, ventral b) Medial, lateral c) Dorsomedial, ventrolateral d) Anterior; posterior e) Rostral; caudal

18. Which structure is part of both the limbic system and basal ganglia.
a) hippocampus b) fornix c) amygdala d) septum e) Cingulate cortex

19. The deepest fissure is the
__________________.
a) longitudinal b) lateral c) Sylvian d) central e) posterior

20. _____________ uses different methods and approaches to make stronger scientific conclusions.
a) Scientific inference b) Law of parsimony c) Converging inference d) Converging operations e) Scientific operations

1) B
2) D
3) C
4) A
5) A
6) F
7) E
8) F
9) A
10) A
11) B
12) B
13) D
14) D
15) D
16) C
17) A
18) C
19) A
20) D