Exam 5: The Research Methods of Biopsychology

Neuropsychological assessment is useful because it can

On the digit-span test, most people score about

IP, SC, and IM are all

Normally, a male rat cannot intromit unless

The Morris water maze is commonly used to study

If a PET image is recorded while a patient is reading, many areas of activity on the PET image will have nothing to do with the cognitive activity of reading per se. That is why cognitive neuroscientists often use

Which of the following WAIS subtests is part of the Performance Scale?

The digit-span test is a common test of

Muscle tension is monitored by

In the open-field test, thigmotaxia is often used as a measure of

Which of the following brain lesion techniques is least likely to be associated with damage to major blood vessels?

Lesions that are commonly referred to as amygdala lesions often

In the sodium amytal test, an injection into the carotid artery contralateral to the dominant hemisphere for speech renders the patient completely mute for

Cerebral dialysis is a method of

Which method was used to record this signal?

Describe and compare the various techniques commonly used for obtaining structural images of the brains of neurological patients.

The final stage of the 2-deoxyglucose technique involves

The unabbreviated name of the procedure used to record muscle tension is __________.

Most cognitive neuroscientific research is based on the assumption that

Intracellular unit recording is not commonly used in biopsychological research because