Chapter 2 Practice Quizzes

Cognitive Neuroscience
. Cases such as Gabrielle Giffords and Phineas Gage demonstrate that ________.

. Lashley posited that learning and memory depend on the total mass of brain tissue, rather than the properties of individual cells. This is referred to as the ________.

. ________ states that mind and brain are separate and interact with and influence each other, while ________ states that the mind and brain are two aspects of the same reality and flow in parallel.

. Although informative, the use of behavioural techniques (and most others) fail in ________.

. A woman was admitted to the emergency room after a stroke. She had great difficulty communicating with the doctors and was barely able to produce any intelligible speech. She likely has ________.

. Roger Sperry received the Nobel Prize in 1981 for his research on ________.

. A drawback from using positron emission tomography (PET) is ________.

. The difference between fMRI and MRI is ________.

. If two separate populations of cells are active at the same time, it is likely that some sort of connection (e.g., learning) will take place between the two activity producing events. This assumption is based on ________.

. The best approach to studying human cognition would be ________.

. Specific cognitive operations are assumed to take place in specific parts of the brain. Cognitive neuroscientists refer to these parts as ________.

. A technique that destroys part of the brain so that behavioural consequences can be observed is known as ________.

. The idea that any part of a brain area can do the job of any other part of that same brain area is known as ________.

. Descartes' idea that the mind and brain were separate but interacting is known as ________.

. ________ implies that consciousness can influence lower-level functions of the brain.

. Which technique would be most appropriate if you were interested in studying the time course of mental activity and related response processes?

. Connections in neural networks are assumed to be formed and strengthened based on ________.

. Which of the following would be considered a static brain imaging technique?

. If you subscribed to the idea that the mind and brain share the same reality, then what term would best describe your approach?

. Phrenologists such as Gall and Spurzheim would disagree most with which of the following statements?

. Although phrenology is no longer taken seriously, the underlying notion that specific brain areas can be associated with specific functions deserves attention.

. Animal models are useful because the enable researchers to test in a way that sometimes would not be possible in humans.

. A split brain patient has great difficulty understanding speech.

. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a PET-based neuroimaging technique.

. The implicit association task (IAT) accurately predicts whether someone will be racially biased or prejudiced.

. The brain account for about 5% of your body weight.

. A specific link between underlying brain mechanisms and behaviour can be obtained from behavioural studies.

. The inability to produce coherent speech while still being able to speak is most likely associated with Wernicke's area.

. Patients with blindsight claim to see objects but cannot locate the object is space.

. Modern brain imaging techniques are finding evidence to support the early idea of phrenology.

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