Question 1

Nonfluent aphasia, in which the victim is unable to speak fluently, is due to brain damage that includes:

Accepted Answer

A)   Broca's area.
B)   the postcentral gyrus of the parietal lobe.
C)   Wernicke's area.
D)   the corpus callosum.

Question 2

People born without a corpus callosum can perform many tasks in which split-brain patients fail.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

One way to test the hypothesis that people are biologically adapted to learn best during a critical period is to:

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A)   compare the vocabularies of children and adults.
B)   determine whether people learn a second language better than a first language.
C)   determine whether people learn a second language if they start at various ages.
D)   compare the grammar use of children and adults.

Question 4

Children are asked to feel two fabrics and to determine whether they are the same or different. This is more difficult for ____ children who have to feel the fabrics with ____.

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A)   younger; the same hand
B)   younger; different hands
C)   older; the same hand
D)   older; different hands

Question 5

If a split-brain patient sees the word "sky" in his left visual field and the word "scraper" in his right visual field, which picture will he draw with the left hand?

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A)   the sky only.
B)   the scraper only.
C)   a sky and a scraper, separately.
D)   a skyscraper.

Question 6

Describe some of the research conducted in nonhuman's dealing with language.

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Question 7

People with Williams syndrome develop language slowly at first, and their ____ continues to be odd, like that of someone who learned a second language late in life.

Accepted Answer

A)   prosody
B)   grammar
C)   semantics
D)   phonology

Question 8

Split-brain patients suffer:

Accepted Answer

A)   little or no impairment of overall intellectual performance.
B)   a lack of motor control.
C)   sensation deficits.
D)   memory deficits.

Question 9

A symptom of right-hemisphere parietal lobe damage is the tendency to ignore the:

Accepted Answer

A)   right side of the body
B)   dorsal areas of the body.
C)   left side of the body.
D)   ventral areas of the body.

Question 10

Someone who suffered damage to the visual cortex of the left hemisphere would probably have impaired vision in the:

Accepted Answer

A)   left eye.
B)   right eye.
C)   left visual field.
D)   right visual field.

Question 11

After damage to the right hemisphere, many people suffer what kind of loss?

Accepted Answer

A)   control of the muscles on the right side of the body
B)   hunger and thirst
C)   ability to remember the names of objects
D)   ability to recognize emotional facial expressions

Question 12

Which of the following is true regarding left-handed individuals?

Accepted Answer

A)   They are more likely to learn sign-language.
B)   They are less likely to be left-hemisphere dominant for speech production.
C)   They use both hemispheres equally well for speech production.
D)   They are more likely to stutter.

Question 13

The brain has ____ control of the trunk muscles.

Accepted Answer

A)   ipsilateral
B)   contralateral
C)   bilateral
D)   no

Question 14

Which of the following senses sends input only to the ipsilateral hemisphere?

Accepted Answer

A)   hearing
B)   vision
C)   smell
D)   touch

Question 15

On average, right-handers turned mostly to the left, and ____ turn mostly to the ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   left-handers, left
B)   right-handers, right
C)   right-handers, left
D)   left-handers, right

Question 16

Studies of nonhuman language abilities seem to indicate that human language may have evolved from a precursor that was probably:

Accepted Answer

A)   present only in human ancestors.
B)   a byproduct of total brain size.
C)   present in the ancient ancestor from which humans and bonobos evolved.
D)   a single gene mutation.

Question 17

Observations of Williams syndrome indicate that language is not simply a by-product of overall intelligence.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Epilepsy is caused by genes that alter:

Accepted Answer

A)   the arrangement of blood vessels in the brain.
B)   acetylcholine levels.
C)   GABA receptors.
D)   the shapes of astroglia cells.

Question 19

Broca's aphasia is most likely to affect use of the ____ class of words.

Accepted Answer

A)   open
B)   closed
C)   novel
D)   noun

Question 20

Generally speaking, drugs used to treat epilepsy work by:

Accepted Answer

A)   enhancing the effects of GABA.
B)   causing apoptosis.
C)   preventing the sodium-potassium pump from working.
D)   relaxing the cell membrane.

Exam 14: Cognitive Functions

Nonfluent aphasia, in which the victim is unable to speak fluently, is due to brain damage that includes:

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Someone who suffered damage to the visual cortex of the left hemisphere would probably have impaired vision in the:

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Describe some of the research conducted in nonhuman's dealing with language.

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Which of the following senses sends input only to the ipsilateral hemisphere?

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People born without a corpus callosum can perform many tasks in which split-brain patients fail.

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One way to test the hypothesis that people are biologically adapted to learn best during a critical period is to:

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Children are asked to feel two fabrics and to determine whether they are the same or different. This is more difficult for ____ children who have to feel the fabrics with ____.

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Epilepsy is caused by genes that alter:

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Split-brain patients suffer:

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After damage to the right hemisphere, many people suffer what kind of loss?

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If a split-brain patient sees the word "sky" in his left visual field and the word "scraper" in his right visual field, which picture will he draw with the left hand?

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Broca's aphasia is most likely to affect use of the ____ class of words.

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Studies of nonhuman language abilities seem to indicate that human language may have evolved from a precursor that was probably:

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On average, right-handers turned mostly to the left, and ____ turn mostly to the ____.

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The brain has ____ control of the trunk muscles.

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Observations of Williams syndrome indicate that language is not simply a by-product of overall intelligence.

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Generally speaking, drugs used to treat epilepsy work by:

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Which of the following is true regarding left-handed individuals?

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People with Williams syndrome develop language slowly at first, and their ____ continues to be odd, like that of someone who learned a second language late in life.

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A symptom of right-hemisphere parietal lobe damage is the tendency to ignore the:

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