Deck 1: Extension: C - The Development of Neuropsychology

Question 1

According to Descartes, which human brain structure was the locus of the mind?

A) the prefrontal lobe
B) the pineal body
C) the medial forebrain bundle
D) the cerebellum

Answer 1

the pineal body

Question 2

Who thought that mental processes came from the heart, not the brain?

A) Plato
B) Aristotle
C) Hippocrates
D) Galen

Answer 2

Aristotle

Question 3

The brain is organized so that the _____ mediates cognitive functions, the _____ is responsible for regulatory functions like eating and sleeping, and the _____ is responsible for communication with the motor system.

A) medulla, pons, midbrain
B) left hemisphere, right hemisphere, midbrain
C) forebrain, brainstem, spinal cord
D) amygdala, hippocampus, hypothalamus

Answer 3

forebrain, brainstem, spinal cord

Question 4

In terms of the similarity of their ideas about nature, who is Alfred Wallace BEST paired with?

A) Pierre Flourens
B) Marc Dax
C) Paul Broca
D) Charles Darwin

Question 5

So - called fluent aphasia, associated with damage to the left temporal lobe, was first accurately described and located by _____.

A) Marc Dax
B) Paul Broca
C) Carl Wernicke
D) Pierre Marie

Question 6

If someone believes in a material brain that interacts with a nonmaterial mind, that person would be BEST called a _____.

A) monist
B) philosopher
C) dualist
D) psychologist

Question 7

By studying individuals with damage to particular brain regions, memory researchers have found that different aspects of memories seem to be stored in different parts of the brain. As yet, however, the researchers have not determined how these elements are combined into an integrated memory of an event or stimulus. This is referred to as the _____ problem.

A) mnemonic
B) levels-of-processing
C) source
D) binding

Question 8

Who coined the term "synapse"?

A) Bernstein
B) Galvani
C) Huxley
D) Sherrington
Answer Key

Question 9

Today, when neuroscientists use the term "mind," most are using it as shorthand for:

A) spirit and soul.
B) nonmaterial aspects of experience.
C) heart function.
D) the collective functions of the brain.

Question 10

A cranioscopy was used for which purpose?

A) to surgically remove parts of the cerebral cortex
B) to excise subdural hematomas from the meninges of the brain
C) to measure the bumps and depressions of the skull
D) to observe the anatomical structures of an individual in a manner similar to the CAT scanner

Question 11

Gall and Spurzheim were the first to propose the general theory that _____.

A) different parts of the brain had different functions
B) brains were composed of individual units called neurons
C) people use only a small fraction of their brains
D) head circumference is positively correlated with intelligence

Question 12

Who first presented compelling evidence that the nervous system is composed of individual cells and is not a "nerve net"?

A) Golgi
B) Hughlings-Jackson
C) Ramón y Cajal
D) Goltz

Question 13

Which subdivision of the peripheral nervous system is responsible for the transmission of sensory signals from the body to the contralateral side of the brain?

A) the somatic
B) the autonomic
C) the spinal
D) the parasympathetic

Question 14

From studying several cases of brain damage, who proposed that speech was located in the third convolution of the left frontal lobe?

A) Carl Wernicke
B) Paul Broca
C) Jean Baptiste Bouillaud
D) Santiago Ramón y Cajal