Behavioral Neuro Exam 1

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Which of the following staining techniques would be utilized to examine the internal structures of the cell bodies of both neurons and glial cells

Back 1

Cresyl violet

Front 2

Theta waves are

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indicative of drowsiness and being inwardly focuses

Front 3

The skull x ray

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obtains a two demensional representation of the head

Front 4

Assessing orientation includes

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asking the patient where they are

Front 5

Achievement tests measure the ability of an individual to

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profit from past experience

Front 6

Which of the following statements is true?

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Neurons fire in an all or none fashion

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Reliability is

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The ability of a test to provide consistent results over mulitple administrations to the same individual

Front 8

The advantage of fMRI over SPECT, PET, and CT is

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there is no radiation exposure

Front 9

Which of the following is NOT an invasive procedure?

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computed transaxial tomography

Front 10

Which of the following is true regarding neuronal communication?

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If enough EPSPs occur at approximately the same time, they may combine to produce an action potential in that neuron

Front 11

To increase the depth of information on a patient, a neuropsycholgist may with to

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administer more test measures assesssing a particular function

Front 12

To identify a neuromuscualr disorder or peripheral nerve damage, a physician would most likely request an

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electromyography

Front 13

Which of the following is NOT a correct pairing of the neurotransmitter and its site of production?

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serotonin; planum temporale

Front 14

Which of the following tests are used to measure visuospatial functioing?

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Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure TEst

Front 15

The third unit for Lurias model described the ______, which are involved in planning and executing behvioar

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frontal and prefrontal lobes

Front 16

The Wada technique involves

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the injection of a sodium amytal to anesthetize one hemisphere

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Most neuropsychologist work in

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private practice

Front 18

What percentage of neurophsychological evaluations are given for the purpose of diagnosis

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56%

Front 19

To determine which parts of the brain are activated by different types of physical sensation or activity, such as sight, sound or movement of a subject's finger, an experimenter would most likely use

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a PET scan

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Crystallized functions are thought to be

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dependent on learning and education

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Pierre Flourens utilized ______ as a method of investigation into brain function

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the ablation experiment

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The early history of neuropsychology was shaped by which two principles?

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vitalism and materialism

Front 23

If a neuropsychologist classified a brain damaged individual as a "normal" individual, he or she would have produced a error called

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a type 1 error

Front 24

Which of the following is not a structural compoment of all neurons?

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myelin

Front 25

Alexander Luria developed a theory of three functional units, composed of

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the brain stem, posterior pareietal areas of the cortex, and frontal lobes

Front 26

Gray matter describes areas of the brain dense in ______, while white matter describes areas dense in ____.

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cell bodies; axons

Front 27

The degree to which a sample of items or tasks makes conceptual sense or are representative of some defined psychological domian is

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content validity

Front 28

The communication of neurons is dependent on the passage of ions through the cell membrane. The four primary types of ions involved in this process are

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sodium, potassium, chloride, calciium

Front 29

According to Rene Descartes, mental processes originated from the

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pituitary gland

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Karl Lashley believed that

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each part of the brain has more tan one function