Question 1

The neuron doctrine is usually credited to ________,who used a staining technique pioneered by ________.

Accepted Answer

A) Purkinje / Brodmann 
B) Brodmann / Purkinje 
C) Golgi / Ramón y Cajal 
D) Ramón y Cajal / Golgi

Question 2

Describe the theoretical shift in psychology that happened during the latter half of the 20th century.What schools of thought,both psychological and philosophical,were involved? What were some events that contributed to this paradigm change?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Describe the theoretical shift in psychology that...

Question 3

What are some of the strengths and weaknesses of behaviorism and associationism in psychology?

Accepted Answer

The answer of What are some of the strengths and...

Question 4

Phrenologists argued that higher cognitive functions were carried out holistically by the entire brain.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Some of the techniques developed to detect submarines during the Second World War led to refinements in the study of human perception.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Ebbinghaus,who is considered the father of modern memory research,was among the first to demonstrate that

Accepted Answer

A) different types of brain lesions can produce different types of memory deficits. 
B) in terms of cognition,the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. 
C) behavior is best understood in terms of stimulus-response relationships. 
D) internal mental processes can be measured in rigorous and reproducible ways.

Question 7

________ was one of the first brain scientists to realize that specific cognitive functions can be localized to specific parts of the brain and that many different functional regions can take part in a given behavior.

Accepted Answer

A) Broca 
B) Hughlings Jackson 
C) Flourens 
D) Brodmann

Question 8

Noam Chomsky's behaviorist-associationist view of language had a major influence in the development of cognitive psychology.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

We can trace the origins of the term cognitive neuroscience to

Accepted Answer

A) the 19th-century English neurologist John Hughlings Jackson. 
B) Edward Thorndike's 1911 monograph Animal Intelligence. 
C) the Second Symposium on Information Theory,held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956. 
D) a taxi that Michael Gazzaniga and George Miller shared in the 1970s.

Question 10

Korbinian Brodmann used ________ techniques to document 52 regions of the brain that differed in ________.

Accepted Answer

A) phrenological / cytoarchitectonics 
B) phrenological / chronometrics 
C) tissue staining / cytoarchitectonics 
D) tissue staining / chronometrics

Question 11

Provide two examples of experiments (real or hypothetical)-one that supports a localizationist view of brain organization and another that supports a holistic view.How might we reconcile these two viewpoints regarding the organization of the brain?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Provide two examples of experiments (real or...

Question 12

Wernicke was an early researcher who suggested that the ________ contributes to language comprehension.

Accepted Answer

A) right frontotemporal area 
B) left frontotemporal area 
C) right temporoparietal area 
D) left temporoparietal area

Question 13

The neuroanatomist who described 52 distinct cortical areas based on cell structure and arrangement,and whose classification scheme is often used today,was

Accepted Answer

A) Purkinje. 
B) Helmholtz. 
C) Brodmann. 
D) Hyde.

Question 14

John Hughlings Jackson proposed a ________organization in the cerebral cortex,based on his work with people with ________.

Accepted Answer

A) topographic / epilepsy 
B) holistic / aphasia 
C) topographic / aphasia 
D) holistic / epilepsy

Question 15

The psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud is believed to have argued for the idea of the neuron as a separate and distinct physiological unit.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 1: A Brief History of Cognitive Neuroscience

The neuron doctrine is usually credited to ,who used a staining technique pioneered by .

Describe the theoretical shift in psychology that happened during the latter half of the 20th century.What schools of thought,both psychological and philosophical,were involved? What were some events that contributed to this paradigm change?

What are some of the strengths and weaknesses of behaviorism and associationism in psychology?

Phrenologists argued that higher cognitive functions were carried out holistically by the entire brain.

Some of the techniques developed to detect submarines during the Second World War led to refinements in the study of human perception.

Ebbinghaus,who is considered the father of modern memory research,was among the first to demonstrate that

________ was one of the first brain scientists to realize that specific cognitive functions can be localized to specific parts of the brain and that many different functional regions can take part in a given behavior.

Noam Chomsky's behaviorist-associationist view of language had a major influence in the development of cognitive psychology.

We can trace the origins of the term cognitive neuroscience to

Korbinian Brodmann used techniques to document 52 regions of the brain that differed in .

Provide two examples of experiments (real or hypothetical)-one that supports a localizationist view of brain organization and another that supports a holistic view.How might we reconcile these two viewpoints regarding the organization of the brain?

Wernicke was an early researcher who suggested that the ________ contributes to language comprehension.

The neuroanatomist who described 52 distinct cortical areas based on cell structure and arrangement,and whose classification scheme is often used today,was

John Hughlings Jackson proposed a organization in the cerebral cortex,based on his work with people with .

The psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud is believed to have argued for the idea of the neuron as a separate and distinct physiological unit.