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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) Stellate
B) Glia
C) None of the above
D) Pyramidal
E) Aspiny
  • 2. Which of the following is NOT true?
A) The right hemisphere is larger and heavier.
B) The left hemisphere extends farther posteriorly.
C) The slope of the lateral is gentler on the left hemisphere.
D) There is more gray matter in the right hemisphere.
E) The left side of the thalamus is dominant for language functions
  • 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) "Spoon" because because object recognition and speech intiaition is intact in the left hemisphere,.
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) "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.
  • 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 and music; stimuli with a tonal quality
B) music; verbal stimuli with a tonal quality
C) music and stimuli with a tonal quality; verbal stimuli
D) verbal stimuli; music and stimuli with a tonal quality.
E) verbal stimuli with a tonal quality; music
  • 5. People who write with _______________ show more variation in asymmetry and greater hemispheric interaction.
A) both hands
B) none of the above
C) the right hand
D) the left hand
  • 6. Which of the following is NOT true?
A) There is little known about the cerebral organization in those with right hemisphere speech.
B) All of the above are true.
C) There is a larger incidence of left-handedness among mentally defective children & children with neurological disorders.
D) The majority of right-handers have lateralized speech.
  • 7. In regard to spatial analysis, what is true about sex differences?
A) None of the above.
B) Women are superior at geographical knowledge.
C) Women are superior at mental rotation
D) Men are superior at spatial memory.
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 left 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 right 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) integrating visual information
C) integrating somatosensory information for movement
D) processing somatic sensations and perceptions
E) none of the above
  • 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) none of the above
E) an indifference to illness
  • 11. Which of the following is not a symptom of Balint's syndrome, a disorder associated with bilateral parietal lesions?
A) Patients can not make visually guided movements
B) Patients can only pay attention to one thing at a time
C) Patients can not identify movement in the environment
D) Patients can move eyes but can't fixate on specific visual stimuli
  • 12. _________________ is a command apparatus for the operation of the limbs, hands, and eyes within immediate extrapersonal space.
A) The posterior parietal cortex
B) The basal ganglia
C) The premotor cortex
D) The cerebellum
E) The occipitofrontal cortex
  • 13. The posterior parietal cortex plays a role in
A) none of the above
B) somatic sensations and perceptions
C) object recognition and pattern categorization
D) balance and biological motion perception
E) viewer-centered system and visuomotor guidance
  • 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) Egocentric disorientation
B) Topographic agnosia
C) Anterograde disorientation
D) Heading disorientation
E) None of the above
  • 16. The inability to learn new representations of environmental information is called
A) egocentric disorientation.
B) topographic amnesia.
C) anterograde disorientation.
D) heading disorientation.
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 continue activity in the dark.
C) Both activate when the enironment is rotated.
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) hippocampus
C) cerebellum
D) amygdala
E) putamen
  • 19. ________ are similar to a compass needle and fire as long as the head is facing a certain direction
A) All of the above
B) Head direction cells
C) Grid cells
D) Place cells
  • 20. Place cells prefer
A) visual cues
B) vestibular cues
C) auditory cues
D) gustatory 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) midbrain --> thalamus --> hindbrain --> cerebral cortex
B) none of the above
C) cerebral cortex --> thalamus --> midbrain --> hindbrain
D) hindbrain --> midbrain --> thalamus --> cerebral cortex
E) cerebral cortex --> midbrain --> thalamus --> hindbrain
  • 23. The dorsal tract has large, heavily myelinated fibers and receives input related to
A) nocioception and proprioception
B) hapsis and proprioception
C) hapsis and nocioception
D) none of the above
  • 24. This somatosensory pathway is related to the perception of unpleasant stimuli.
A) Dorsal
B) Ventral
C) Nigrostriatal
D) Geniculostriate
E) Vestibular
  • 25. Which of the following is not a basic sensory function of the temporal lobe?
A) visual object recognition
B) limb and trunk movements
C) processing auditory input
D) long term storage of information
  • 26. The Superior Temporal Sulcus is activated during tasks that involve
A) none of the above
B) facial processing
C) biological motion
D) limb coordination
E) speech production
  • 27. Schneider and colleagues found that
A) musicians have larger inferior temporal cortices.
B) none of the above
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) pseudopsychopathy
B) pseudodepression
C) disinhibition syndrome
D) temporal lobe personality
  • 29. Which of the following does color vision play a role in?
A) detection of movement
B) detection of depth
C) All of the above
D) detection of position
E) None of the above
  • 30. The dorsal stream of visual processing plays a role in
A) symbol categorization
B) object identification
C) color perception
D) visual guidance of movements
  • 31. The ventral stream of visual processing begins in V1 and ends in
A) the parietal lobe
B) the temporal lobe
C) the occipital 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) Monocular blindness
B) Macular Sparing
C) Scotoma
D) None of the above
E) Homonymous Hemianopia
  • 33. A patient who, upon showing them a pencil, can not describe it's characteristics or identify it by name may have
A) associative agnosia.
B) alexia.
C) apperceptive agnosia.
D) none of the above.
E) prosopagnosia.
  • 34. In a motor sequence, this region specifies movement goals
A) primary motor cortex
B) prefrontal cortex
C) premotor cortex
D) posterior cortex
  • 35. The ___________ is responsible for the execution of movements.
A) posterior cortex
B) prefrontal cortex
C) premotor cortex
D) primary motor cortex
  • 36. Persons with brainstem lesions would have impairments with
A) Grooming
B) All of the above
C) Sexual behavior
D) Eating and drinking
E) None of the above
  • 37. Hyperkinetic symptoms are related to _____________________ and occur in patients with _____________________.
A) loss of movement; Parkinsons
B) increases in motor activity; Parkinson's
C) loss of movement; Huntington's
D) increases in motor activity; Huntington's
  • 38. The basal ganglia connections:
A) Substantia nigra -> Caudate -> Thalamus -> Cortex -> Movement
B) Cortex -> Thalamus -> Caudate -> Substantia Nigra -> Movement
C) Thalamus -> Caudate -> Substantia Nigra -> Cortex -> Movement
D) Caudate -> Thalamus -> Substantia Nigra -> Cortex -> Movement
  • 39. The basal ganglia receives connections from
A) all areas of the neocortex
B) all of the above
C) the limbic cortex
D) none of the above
E) the substantia nigra
  • 40. Which structure plays a role in the timing of movements and the maintenance of movement accuracy?
A) Hippocampus
B) Cerebellum
C) None of the above
D) Orbitofrontal Cortex
E) Basal Ganglia
  • 41. The ________ parts of the cerebellum control the __________.
A) medial; trunk
B) medial; limbs
C) lateral; trunk
  • 42. The lateral corticospinal tract _________ and controls _______ regions.
A) does not decussate, limb
B) decussates, trunk
C) does not decussate, trunk
D) decussates, limb
  • 43. The precentral sulcus is part of the __________.
A) inferiotemporal cortex
B) motor cortex
C) prefrontal cortex
D) striate cortex
  • 44. ____________ is associated with control of movement, rather than muscles.
A) The frontal eye field
B) The motor cortex
C) The premotor cortex
D) The prefrontal cortex
  • 45. The __________ contains cells that respond to taste and olfaction.
A) inferior prefrontal cortex
B) medial prefrontal cortex
C) dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
  • 46. Persons with _____ lesions have difficulty with social cues.
A) dorsolateral
B) orbitofrontal
C) posterior parietal
D) none of the above
  • 47. The Left frontal lobe is involved with
A) memory retrieval
B) nonverbal movements
C) speech
D) facial expression
  • 48. low decerebrate animals
A) none of the above
B) have a connected hindbrain and spinal cord
C) have a connected spinal cord and frontal lobe
D) have a connected midbrain and frontal lobe
  • 49. Decorticate animals can do all of the following except:
A) build nests
B) run
C) groom
D) swim
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 exhibited by a range of animals
C) All of the above
D) Cerebral site is just as important as cerebral side
E) Laterality is not absolute
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