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The _____________ area of the cerebral cortex is thought to control higher-level processes like planning.
A) Broca’s B) fusiform face C) primary auditory D) prefrontal |
D) PREFRONTAL
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Which of the following is not true of Sternberg’s information-processing account of his digit probe paradigm?
A) The processing of information has a highly symbolic character. B) The response latency is the critical dependent variable. C) The computer metaphor is important to properly understand human information processing. D) Information processing should be conceptualized with reference to brain location and processes. |
D) Information processing should be conceptualized with reference to brain location and processes IS NOT TRUE in reference to Sternberg's info processing account
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In the nervous system, synapses that cause depolarization, causing the potential differences between the internal and external portions of the membrane to become smaller, are referred to as ____________, while synapses that cause hyperpolarization, causing the potential differences to become larger, are referred to as ______________.
A) excitatory; inhibitory B) g-protein synapses; salutatory synapses C) dendritic; axonal D) glial; reuptake |
A) Excitatory; Inhibitory
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Kahnemann and Tversky, two cognitive psychologists whose research concerns decision making, are well-known for their work dealing with which of the following topics?
A) behavioral economics B) cognitive dissonance C) high-risk behavior D) prefrontal lobe function |
A) Behavioral Economics
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The results from Posner, Peterson, Fox, and Raichle’s (1988) PET study of reading revealed which of the following findings?
A) Reading is a right hemisphere phenomenon. B) There are different neural pathways for the transmission of auditory and visual language. C) Dyslexia is actually a collection of different reading disorders. D) Different brain regions are involved in passive reading and word generation tasks. |
D) Different brain regions are involved in passive reading and word generation tasks.
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Measurements of the blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) response are critical to which neuroscience technique?
A) fMRI B) single-cell recording C) PET D) event-related potentials |
A) fMRI
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This technique employed in cognitive neuroscience involves the use of a small magnetic field applied briefly to a part of an individual’s head in order to disrupt functioning in a particular part of the brain.
A) fMRI B) TMS C) PET D) EEG |
B) TMS
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The cortical minicolumns found in the primary visual area of the brain demonstrate particularly well which of the following principles of neural organization?
A) the presence of dominance columns B) the comparative lack of glia in the cortex C) the prevalence of local connections among neurons D) the importance of association areas in sensory processing |
C) Prevalence of local connections among neurons
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Which of the following brain structures is not part of the basal ganglia?
A) putamen B) caudate nucleus C) thalamus D) globus pallidus |
C) Thalamus
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Which individual identified 52 separate regions of the cerebral cortex according to differences in cell types found in each region?
A) Hubel B) Brodmann C) Olds D) Sherrington |
B) Brodmann
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Areas of the brain responsible for receiving sensory information are organized in such a way that more sensitive areas (that is, the fovea in the retina, the hands or mouth in the body) are represented to a much greater extent than less sensitive areas and thus occupy more space in these cortical sensory areas. This type of organization is known as _____________ organization.
A) spatially sensitive B) geometric C) topographic D) nonspecific |
C) Topographic
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A centuries old debate has raged among those who believe that all knowledge comes from experience and those who hold that we are born with innate knowledge. The former position is known as _______________, while the latter position is referred to as ____________________.
A) rationalism; positivism B) empiricism; nativism C) dualism; interactionism D) behaviorism; epiphenomenalism |
B) Empiricism; Nativism
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From the perspective of cognitive psychology, the most lasting contribution of behaviorism is:
A) the initiation of the use of the animal model in psychology. B) the development of clinical applications of both Pavlov and Skinner’s work. C) a set of sophisticated and rigorous techniques and principles for experimental study in all fields of psychology. D) the adherence to the notion that internal processes are not measurable and thus should not be studied. |
C) A set of sophisticated and rigorous techniques and principles for experimental study in all fields of psychology.
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Herbert Simon, who has won the Nobel Prize for his work in economics, has spent the last 40 years studying this phenomenon in cognitive psychology.
A) complex problem solving B) attentional mechanisms C) decision making D) memory encoding |
A) Complex problem solving
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