Question 1

Dr. Vancil can tell when her patients have lost consciousness because they experience _____.

Accepted Answer

A)   decreased connectivity between the cerebral cortex and subcortical areas such as the thalamus, hypothalamus, and basal ganglia.
B)   increased overall activity of the cortex but decreased subcortical areas
C)   loss of synchrony and connectivity between cortical areas but intact subcortical areas
D)   loss of synchrony and connectivity between subcortical areas but intact cortical areas A

Question 2

In most people, the right hemisphere is dominant for speech.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

A person with Broca's aphasia ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   has lost total knowledge of grammar
B)   has lost total knowledge of use of verbs
C)   recognizes that something is wrong with grammatically incorrect sentences
D)   insists that his or her utterances are grammatically correct and that other people are wrong

Question 4

Lekisha feels that everything that exists is material. Her belief would be described as identity position.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

The best description of oxytocin may be that it ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   stimulates the brain's reward centers
B)   increases attention to important social cues
C)   acts much like endogenous opiates
D)   really is the "love hormone" B

Question 6

Shameka has frontotemporal dementia and shows little interest in how others perceive her. She would most likely _____.

Accepted Answer

A)   neglect personal hygiene
B)   live in isolation
C)   avoid crowded places like a store
D)   overreact to an embarrassing situation

Question 7

What is the apparent relationship between language abilities and other intellectual abilities?

Accepted Answer

A)   Impairments in either results in impairments in the other.
B)   It is possible to have good language and poor intelligence, but not the reverse.
C)   It is possible to have good intelligence and poor language, but not the reverse.
D)   Either can be impaired independently of the other.

Question 8

A person with spatial neglect is more likely to notice an object placed in the left hand if ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   they cross their left hand over to the right side of their body
B)   they cross their right hand over to the left side of their body
C)   they look to the right
D)   you touch their right hand

Question 9

The nonhuman species that has made the most spectacular progress toward learning to communicate by an approximation of human language is the ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   common chimpanzee
B)   bonobo chimpanzee
C)   gorilla
D)   dolphin

Question 10

The training of Kanzi differed from the earlier language studies using other chimpanzees in that Kanzi ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   observed his mother being trained while he was an infant
B)   was given food reinforcements for associating arbitrary symbols with meanings
C)   was given only verbal praise
D)   was raised from birth in a human family, in total isolation from other animals A

Question 11

Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker proposed that humans have a ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   language synthesizer
B)   language stimulus apparatus
C)   language acquisition device
D)   grammatical articulation device

Question 12

Wernicke's aphasia is also known as ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   production aphasia
B)   fluent aphasia
C)   spoken aphasia
D)   nonfluent aphasia

Question 13

Dyseidetic dyslexics have the most difficulty with ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   recognizing whole words
B)   hearing words
C)   guessing word meaning based on context
D)   sounding out words

Question 14

Provide a detailed description of spatial neglect.

Accepted Answer

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Question 15

The frontal orienting fields are located in the _____.

Accepted Answer

A)   motor cortex.
B)   prefrontal cortex.
C)   posterior parietal cortex.
D)   ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

Question 16

Normally, a split-brain patient should be able to name an object flashed to the left visual field.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Wernicke discovered that damage to the ____ cortex produced language impairment.

Accepted Answer

A)   right temporal
B)   left temporal
C)   right frontal
D)   left frontal

Question 18

A split-brain patient sees something in her left visual field, and must reach behind a screen and select the object from a group of objects. She will select the object correctly with ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   the left hand
B)   the right hand
C)   either hand
D)   neither hand

Question 19

Dyslexia is more common among languages that ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   are phonetically based
B)   have many odd spellings
C)   are tonal in nature
D)   use masculine and feminine nouns

Question 20

Someone suffering from Wernicke's aphasia has difficulty ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   articulating speech
B)   reading aloud
C)   understanding speech
D)   using prepositions and conjunctions

Exam 13: Cognitive Functions

Dr. Vancil can tell when her patients have lost consciousness because they experience _____.

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In most people, the right hemisphere is dominant for speech.

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A person with Broca's aphasia ____.

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Lekisha feels that everything that exists is material. Her belief would be described as identity position.

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The best description of oxytocin may be that it ____.

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Shameka has frontotemporal dementia and shows little interest in how others perceive her. She would most likely _____.

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What is the apparent relationship between language abilities and other intellectual abilities?

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A person with spatial neglect is more likely to notice an object placed in the left hand if ____.

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The nonhuman species that has made the most spectacular progress toward learning to communicate by an approximation of human language is the ____.

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The training of Kanzi differed from the earlier language studies using other chimpanzees in that Kanzi ____.

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Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker proposed that humans have a ____.

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Wernicke's aphasia is also known as ____.

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Dyseidetic dyslexics have the most difficulty with ____.

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Provide a detailed description of spatial neglect.

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The frontal orienting fields are located in the _____.

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Normally, a split-brain patient should be able to name an object flashed to the left visual field.

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Wernicke discovered that damage to the ____ cortex produced language impairment.

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A split-brain patient sees something in her left visual field, and must reach behind a screen and select the object from a group of objects. She will select the object correctly with ____.

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Dyslexia is more common among languages that ____.

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Someone suffering from Wernicke's aphasia has difficulty ____.

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