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Question 1:

What do cases such as those of Gabrielle Giffords and Phineas Gage demonstrate?
a) The brain can heal itself after injury.
b) The brain is purely modular in nature.
c) Injuries to specific areas of the brain can sometimes lead to deficits in specific cognitive mechanisms.
d) That the areas associating location and function of phrenology were correct.

Question 2:

Which states that mind and brain are separate and interact with and influence each other?
a) Isomorphism
b) Interactionism
c) Parallelism
d) Epiphenomenalism

Question 3:

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. What is the most likely diagnosis?
a) Wernicke’s aphasia
b) Motor aphasia
c) Broca’s aphasia
d) Interhemispheric aphasia

Question 4:

What is one drawback from using positron emission tomography (PET)?
a) the inability of radioactive substances to cross the blood brain barrier
b) allergic reaction to radioactive substances
c) there is a limit to the amount of radiation that a person may be exposed to
d) there are no drawbacks, it is the ideal approach

Question 5:

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. What is this assumption based on?
a) the Hebb rule
b) the Law of equipotentiality
c) the Law of mass action
d) localization of function

Question 6:

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

Question 7:

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

Question 8:

A split brain patient has great difficulty understanding speech.
a) True
b) False

Question 9:

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

Question 10:

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

Higher Education

Cognition, Fifth Edition: Chapter 2