COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY THEORY PROCESS AND METHODOLOGY 1ST EDITION BY DAWN M - TEST BANK

Chapter 2:      Cognitive Neuroscience

Multiple Choice

1.     Neuroscientists have learned a great deal about which brain areas contribute to different cognitive abilities through _____.

• blood tests
• childhood photographs of patients
• case studies
• textbooks

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Introduction: Knowledge from Cognitive Deficits

Question type: MS

Ans:  C

2.     One of the first clinical cases that contributed to our knowledge of brain function, Phinneas Gage, suffered damage to his _____.

• temporal lobe
• frontal lobe
• parietal lobe
• occipital lobe

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Clinical Case Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience

Question type: MS

Ans:  B

3.     The _____ is important for _____.

• temporal lobe; emotional regulation and decision making
• visual cortex; sensation
• parietal lobe; speech
• frontal lobe; emotional regulation and decision making

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: The Brain

Question type: MS

Ans:  D

4.     Although Jenelle is capable of fluid thought processes, she has trouble producing fluid speech. She likely has _____.

• Wernicke’s aphasia
• Broca’s aphasia

Cognitive domain: Application

Answer location: Clinical Case Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience

Question type: MS

Ans:  B

5.     In _____, patients have difficulties understanding speech.

• Wernicke’s aphasia
• Broca’s aphasia

Cognitive domain: Analysis

Answer location: Clinical Case Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience

Question type: MS

Ans:  A

6.     Broca’s area is located in the _____, while Wernicke’s area is located in the _____.

A.    left temporal lobe; left frontal lobe

B.    right temporal lobe; right frontal lobe

C.    left frontal lobe; left temporal lobe

D.    right frontal lobe; right temporal lobe

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Clinical Case Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience

Question type: MS

Ans:  C

7.     _____ is the inability to correctly recognize objects, and is associated with damage to the _____.

• Object agnosia; inferior temporal cortex
• Wernicke’s aphasia; inferior temporal cortex
• Object agnosia; inferior frontal cortex
• Aphasia; inferior temporal cortex

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Clinical Case Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience

Question type: MS

Ans:  A

8.     Oliver Sacks documented a patient that was unable to distinguish between living and nonliving things. Such a deficit likely resulted from damage to the _____.

• frontal lobe
• inferior parietal cortex
• visual cortex
• inferior temporal cortex

Cognitive domain: Application

Answer location: Clinical Case Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience

Question type: MS

Ans:  D

9.     Jolie suffered brain damage that caused deficits to her short-term memory, but her long-term memory was left intact. Which brain area is likely damaged that would account for this short-term memory deficit?

• Wernicke’s area
• frontal lobe
• hippocampus
• temporal lobe

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Clinical Case Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience

Question type: MS

Ans:  C

10.  The brain is composed of billions of _____.

• cortices
• neurons
• lobes
• synapses

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: The Neuron

Question type: MS

Ans:  B

11.  Which is the correct order of the parts of a neuron?

• Dendrites, cell body, axon, synapse
• Cell body, dendrites, axon, synapse
• Synapse, axon, cell body, dendrites
• Dendrites, axon, synapse, cell body

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: The Neuron

Question type: MS

Ans:  A