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Neuropsych Exam 2 practice test #1
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  • 1. These cells have the largest population of cortical neurons
A) None of the above
B) Stellate
C) Glia
D) Pyramidal
E) Aspiny
  • 2. Which of the following is NOT true?
A) The right hemisphere is larger and heavier.
B) The slope of the lateral is gentler on the left hemisphere.
C) There is more gray matter in the right hemisphere.
D) The left side of the thalamus is dominant for language functions
E) The left hemisphere extends farther posteriorly.
  • 3. A split brain patient is presented with a picture of a spoon in the left visual field. When asked what they see, the patient would respond with
A) "I see nothing". Although object recognition is intact in the left hemisphere, speech initiation is not because mechanisms of the right hemisphere can not be accessed.
B) "I see nothing". Although object recognition is intact in the right hemisphere, speech initiation is not because mechanisms of the left hemisphere can not be accessed.
C) "Spoon" because object recognition and speech intiaition is intact in the right hemisphere.
D) "Spoon" because because object recognition and speech intiaition is intact in the left hemisphere,.
  • 4. Studies of dichotic listening tasks suggest that the left ear has an advantage for _______________ and the right ear has an advantage for _________________.
A) verbal stimuli with a tonal quality; music
B) music; verbal stimuli with a tonal quality
C) music and stimuli with a tonal quality; verbal stimuli
D) verbal stimuli and music; stimuli with a tonal quality
E) verbal stimuli; music and stimuli with a tonal quality.
  • 5. People who write with _______________ show more variation in asymmetry and greater hemispheric interaction.
A) the left hand
B) both hands
C) none of the above
D) the right hand
  • 6. Which of the following is NOT true?
A) All of the above are true.
B) The majority of right-handers have lateralized speech.
C) There is little known about the cerebral organization in those with right hemisphere speech.
D) There is a larger incidence of left-handedness among mentally defective children & children with neurological disorders.
  • 7. In regard to spatial analysis, what is true about sex differences?
A) Women are superior at mental rotation
B) Men are superior at spatial memory.
C) None of the above.
D) Women are superior at geographical knowledge.
E) Men are superior at mental rotation.
  • 8. Which of the following may be true in regard to the genetic theories of handedness?
A) If there is a dominant gene for speech in the left hemisphere, there is an increased likelihood of right handedness.
B) If there is a recessive gene for speech in the left hemisphere, there is an increased likelihood of left handedness.
C) If there is a dominant gene for speech in the left hemisphere, there is an increased likelihood of left handedness.
D) If there is a recessive gene for speech in the left hemisphere, there is an increased likelihood of right handedness.
  • 9. The anterior zone of the parietal lobe plays a role in
A) processing controlled motor responses
B) none of the above
C) integrating somatosensory information for movement
D) integrating visual information
E) processing somatic sensations and perceptions
  • 10. Anosodiaphoria is
A) an absence of normal reactions to pain
B) an inability to localize and name body parts
C) the inability to identify an object without visual input
D) an indifference to illness
E) none of the above
  • 11. Which of the following is not a symptom of Balint's syndrome, a disorder associated with bilateral parietal lesions?
A) Patients can only pay attention to one thing at a time
B) Patients can not identify movement in the environment
C) Patients can move eyes but can't fixate on specific visual stimuli
D) Patients can not make visually guided movements
  • 12. _________________ is a command apparatus for the operation of the limbs, hands, and eyes within immediate extrapersonal space.
A) The cerebellum
B) The posterior parietal cortex
C) The basal ganglia
D) The premotor cortex
E) The occipitofrontal cortex
  • 13. The posterior parietal cortex plays a role in
A) object recognition and pattern categorization
B) viewer-centered system and visuomotor guidance
C) somatic sensations and perceptions
D) none of the above
E) balance and biological motion perception
  • 14. _____________________ is commonly found in patients who have specifically had a Right hemisphere stroke with parietal dysfunction.
A) Asymbolia for pain
B) Astereognosis
C) Anosognosia
D) Anosodiaphoria
E) Autopagnosia
  • 15. Patients with this condition often have injuries to the right posterior cingulate cortex and seem to have no sense of direction.
A) Heading disorientation
B) Anterograde disorientation
C) Topographic agnosia
D) Egocentric disorientation
E) None of the above
  • 16. The inability to learn new representations of environmental information is called
A) anterograde disorientation.
B) heading disorientation.
C) egocentric disorientation.
D) topographic amnesia.
E) topographic agnosia.
  • 17. Which is not a common characteristic of both place cells and head-direction cells?
A) Both are influenced by environmental cues.
B) Both activate when the enironment is rotated.
C) Both continue activity in the dark.
D) Both are active when changing directions
  • 18. A cognitive map is a the brain's represetnation of the environment, and is involved with spatial behavior. A cognitive map is located in the
A) basal ganglia
B) cerebellum
C) hippocampus
D) putamen
E) amygdala
  • 19. ________ are similar to a compass needle and fire as long as the head is facing a certain direction
A) Grid cells
B) Place cells
C) All of the above
D) Head direction cells
  • 20. Place cells prefer
A) vestibular cues
B) gustatory cues
C) auditory cues
D) visual cues
E) somatosensory cues
  • 21. In the auditory pathway, inputs from the cortex are
A) contralateral
B) ipsilateral
C) ipsilateral and contralateral
  • 22. In the auditory pathway, information goes from
A) hindbrain --> midbrain --> thalamus --> cerebral cortex
B) midbrain --> thalamus --> hindbrain --> cerebral cortex
C) cerebral cortex --> thalamus --> midbrain --> hindbrain
D) none of the above
E) cerebral cortex --> midbrain --> thalamus --> hindbrain
  • 23. The dorsal tract has large, heavily myelinated fibers and receives input related to
A) hapsis and nocioception
B) hapsis and proprioception
C) nocioception and proprioception
D) none of the above
  • 24. This somatosensory pathway is related to the perception of unpleasant stimuli.
A) Nigrostriatal
B) Dorsal
C) Ventral
D) Vestibular
E) Geniculostriate
  • 25. Which of the following is not a basic sensory function of the temporal lobe?
A) processing auditory input
B) visual object recognition
C) long term storage of information
D) limb and trunk movements
  • 26. The Superior Temporal Sulcus is activated during tasks that involve
A) limb coordination
B) none of the above
C) biological motion
D) speech production
E) facial processing
  • 27. Schneider and colleagues found that
A) none of the above
B) musicians have larger inferior temporal cortices.
C) spectral pitch listeners had a leftward asymmetry of gray-matter in Heschl's gyrus.
D) musicians have a higher volume of gray and white matter in Heschl's gyrus.
  • 28. Pedantic speech, preoccupation with religion, perseveration, and an overemphasis on petty details of life occurs in
A) temporal lobe personality
B) pseudodepression
C) pseudopsychopathy
D) disinhibition syndrome
  • 29. Which of the following does color vision play a role in?
A) All of the above
B) None of the above
C) detection of position
D) detection of movement
E) detection of depth
  • 30. The dorsal stream of visual processing plays a role in
A) object identification
B) visual guidance of movements
C) symbol categorization
D) color perception
  • 31. The ventral stream of visual processing begins in V1 and ends in
A) the temporal lobe
B) the occipital lobe
C) the parietal lobe
D) the frontal lobe
  • 32. Blindness of one entire visual field due to a complete cut of the optic tract may be called
A) Scotoma
B) Macular Sparing
C) Monocular blindness
D) Homonymous Hemianopia
E) None of the above
  • 33. A patient who, upon showing them a pencil, can not describe it's characteristics or identify it by name may have
A) none of the above.
B) prosopagnosia.
C) alexia.
D) associative agnosia.
E) apperceptive agnosia.
  • 34. In a motor sequence, this region specifies movement goals
A) prefrontal cortex
B) posterior cortex
C) premotor cortex
D) primary motor cortex
  • 35. The ___________ is responsible for the execution of movements.
A) premotor cortex
B) posterior cortex
C) primary motor cortex
D) prefrontal cortex
  • 36. Persons with brainstem lesions would have impairments with
A) None of the above
B) Sexual behavior
C) All of the above
D) Eating and drinking
E) Grooming
  • 37. Hyperkinetic symptoms are related to _____________________ and occur in patients with _____________________.
A) increases in motor activity; Parkinson's
B) loss of movement; Huntington's
C) loss of movement; Parkinsons
D) increases in motor activity; Huntington's
  • 38. The basal ganglia connections:
A) Caudate -> Thalamus -> Substantia Nigra -> Cortex -> Movement
B) Thalamus -> Caudate -> Substantia Nigra -> Cortex -> Movement
C) Cortex -> Thalamus -> Caudate -> Substantia Nigra -> Movement
D) Substantia nigra -> Caudate -> Thalamus -> Cortex -> Movement
  • 39. The basal ganglia receives connections from
A) all of the above
B) none of the above
C) the limbic cortex
D) all areas of the neocortex
E) the substantia nigra
  • 40. Which structure plays a role in the timing of movements and the maintenance of movement accuracy?
A) Orbitofrontal Cortex
B) Cerebellum
C) None of the above
D) Basal Ganglia
E) Hippocampus
  • 41. The ________ parts of the cerebellum control the __________.
A) medial; limbs
B) lateral; trunk
C) medial; trunk
  • 42. The lateral corticospinal tract _________ and controls _______ regions.
A) decussates, limb
B) does not decussate, limb
C) decussates, trunk
D) does not decussate, trunk
  • 43. The precentral sulcus is part of the __________.
A) inferiotemporal cortex
B) prefrontal cortex
C) motor cortex
D) striate cortex
  • 44. ____________ is associated with control of movement, rather than muscles.
A) The prefrontal cortex
B) The motor cortex
C) The frontal eye field
D) The premotor cortex
  • 45. The __________ contains cells that respond to taste and olfaction.
A) medial prefrontal cortex
B) dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
C) inferior prefrontal cortex
  • 46. Persons with _____ lesions have difficulty with social cues.
A) dorsolateral
B) none of the above
C) posterior parietal
D) orbitofrontal
  • 47. The Left frontal lobe is involved with
A) nonverbal movements
B) facial expression
C) speech
D) memory retrieval
  • 48. low decerebrate animals
A) have a connected midbrain and frontal lobe
B) have a connected spinal cord and frontal lobe
C) have a connected hindbrain and spinal cord
D) none of the above
  • 49. Decorticate animals can do all of the following except:
A) run
B) swim
C) build nests
D) groom
E) eat dry food
  • 50. which of the following is a variable complicating the research on laterality?
A) Laterality is affected by genetic factors
B) Laterality is not absolute
C) All of the above
D) Cerebral site is just as important as cerebral side
E) Laterality is exhibited by a range of animals
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