Neuropsych Exam 2 practice test #1
  • 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 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) "Spoon" because because object recognition and speech intiaition is intact in the left hemisphere,.
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 right hemisphere, speech initiation is not because mechanisms of the left 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) music and stimuli with a tonal quality; verbal stimuli
B) verbal stimuli and music; stimuli with a tonal quality
C) verbal stimuli; music and stimuli with a tonal quality.
D) verbal stimuli with a tonal quality; music
E) music; verbal stimuli with a tonal quality
  • 5. People who write with _______________ show more variation in asymmetry and greater hemispheric interaction.
A) none of the above
B) both hands
C) the left hand
D) the right 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) There is a larger incidence of left-handedness among mentally defective children & children with neurological disorders.
C) The majority of right-handers have lateralized speech.
D) All of the above are true.
  • 7. In regard to spatial analysis, what is true about sex differences?
A) Men are superior at spatial memory.
B) Women are superior at geographical knowledge.
C) Women are superior at mental rotation
D) Men are superior at mental rotation.
E) None of the above.
  • 8. Which of the following may be true in regard to the genetic theories of handedness?
A) If there is a recessive 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 dominant 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 visual information
D) processing somatic sensations and perceptions
E) integrating somatosensory information for movement
  • 10. Anosodiaphoria is
A) an indifference to illness
B) an inability to localize and name body parts
C) an absence of normal reactions to pain
D) none of the above
E) the inability to identify an object without visual input
  • 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 move eyes but can't fixate on specific visual stimuli
C) Patients can not identify movement in the environment
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 premotor cortex
B) The cerebellum
C) The posterior parietal cortex
D) The occipitofrontal cortex
E) The basal ganglia
  • 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) balance and biological motion perception
E) none of the above
  • 14. _____________________ is commonly found in patients who have specifically had a Right hemisphere stroke with parietal dysfunction.
A) Astereognosis
B) Autopagnosia
C) Anosognosia
D) Anosodiaphoria
E) Asymbolia for pain
  • 15. Patients with this condition often have injuries to the right posterior cingulate cortex and seem to have no sense of direction.
A) None of the above
B) Anterograde disorientation
C) Heading disorientation
D) Topographic agnosia
E) Egocentric disorientation
  • 16. The inability to learn new representations of environmental information is called
A) topographic agnosia.
B) heading disorientation.
C) egocentric disorientation.
D) topographic amnesia.
E) anterograde disorientation.
  • 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) amygdala
B) putamen
C) cerebellum
D) basal ganglia
E) hippocampus
  • 19. ________ are similar to a compass needle and fire as long as the head is facing a certain direction
A) Grid cells
B) All of the above
C) Head direction cells
D) Place cells
  • 20. Place cells prefer
A) gustatory cues
B) vestibular cues
C) somatosensory cues
D) visual cues
E) auditory cues
  • 21. In the auditory pathway, inputs from the cortex are
A) contralateral
B) ipsilateral and contralateral
C) ipsilateral
  • 22. In the auditory pathway, information goes from
A) cerebral cortex --> midbrain --> thalamus --> hindbrain
B) midbrain --> thalamus --> hindbrain --> cerebral cortex
C) cerebral cortex --> thalamus --> midbrain --> hindbrain
D) none of the above
E) hindbrain --> midbrain --> thalamus --> cerebral cortex
  • 23. The dorsal tract has large, heavily myelinated fibers and receives input related to
A) hapsis and nocioception
B) nocioception and proprioception
C) hapsis and proprioception
D) none of the above
  • 24. This somatosensory pathway is related to the perception of unpleasant stimuli.
A) Geniculostriate
B) Ventral
C) Dorsal
D) Nigrostriatal
E) Vestibular
  • 25. Which of the following is not a basic sensory function of the temporal lobe?
A) processing auditory input
B) long term storage of information
C) visual object recognition
D) limb and trunk movements
  • 26. The Superior Temporal Sulcus is activated during tasks that involve
A) speech production
B) biological motion
C) facial processing
D) limb coordination
E) none of the above
  • 27. Schneider and colleagues found that
A) none of the above
B) musicians have larger inferior temporal cortices.
C) musicians have a higher volume of gray and white matter in Heschl's gyrus.
D) spectral pitch listeners had a leftward asymmetry of gray-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) disinhibition syndrome
C) pseudopsychopathy
D) pseudodepression
  • 29. Which of the following does color vision play a role in?
A) All of the above
B) detection of depth
C) detection of position
D) detection of movement
E) None of the above
  • 30. The dorsal stream of visual processing plays a role in
A) visual guidance of movements
B) symbol categorization
C) object identification
D) color perception
  • 31. The ventral stream of visual processing begins in V1 and ends in
A) the occipital lobe
B) the temporal lobe
C) the frontal lobe
D) the parietal lobe
  • 32. Blindness of one entire visual field due to a complete cut of the optic tract may be called
A) Monocular blindness
B) None of the above
C) Macular Sparing
D) Scotoma
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) none of the above.
B) apperceptive agnosia.
C) alexia.
D) associative agnosia.
E) prosopagnosia.
  • 34. In a motor sequence, this region specifies movement goals
A) primary motor cortex
B) premotor cortex
C) posterior cortex
D) prefrontal 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) None of the above
C) All of the above
D) Sexual behavior
E) Eating and drinking
  • 37. Hyperkinetic symptoms are related to _____________________ and occur in patients with _____________________.
A) increases in motor activity; Huntington's
B) loss of movement; Huntington's
C) loss of movement; Parkinsons
D) increases in motor activity; Parkinson's
  • 38. The basal ganglia connections:
A) Substantia nigra -> Caudate -> Thalamus -> Cortex -> Movement
B) Thalamus -> Caudate -> Substantia Nigra -> Cortex -> Movement
C) Caudate -> Thalamus -> Substantia Nigra -> Cortex -> Movement
D) Cortex -> Thalamus -> Caudate -> Substantia Nigra -> Movement
  • 39. The basal ganglia receives connections from
A) all of the above
B) none of the above
C) all areas of the neocortex
D) the limbic cortex
E) the substantia nigra
  • 40. Which structure plays a role in the timing of movements and the maintenance of movement accuracy?
A) None of the above
B) Cerebellum
C) Hippocampus
D) Basal Ganglia
E) Orbitofrontal Cortex
  • 41. The ________ parts of the cerebellum control the __________.
A) medial; limbs
B) medial; trunk
C) lateral; trunk
  • 42. The lateral corticospinal tract _________ and controls _______ regions.
A) decussates, trunk
B) does not decussate, trunk
C) decussates, limb
D) does not decussate, limb
  • 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 motor cortex
B) The premotor cortex
C) The prefrontal cortex
D) The frontal eye field
  • 45. The __________ contains cells that respond to taste and olfaction.
A) inferior prefrontal cortex
B) dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
C) medial prefrontal cortex
  • 46. Persons with _____ lesions have difficulty with social cues.
A) none of the above
B) posterior parietal
C) orbitofrontal
D) dorsolateral
  • 47. The Left frontal lobe is involved with
A) nonverbal movements
B) speech
C) memory retrieval
D) facial expression
  • 48. low decerebrate animals
A) have a connected midbrain and frontal lobe
B) have a connected spinal cord and frontal lobe
C) none of the above
D) have a connected hindbrain and spinal cord
  • 49. Decorticate animals can do all of the following except:
A) run
B) eat dry food
C) swim
D) groom
E) build nests
  • 50. which of the following is a variable complicating the research on laterality?
A) Laterality is exhibited by a range of animals
B) Cerebral site is just as important as cerebral side
C) All of the above
D) Laterality is affected by genetic factors
E) Laterality is not absolute
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