Physiology of Behavior 11th Edition by Carlson - Test Bank

Multiple-Choice Questions

1.1-1.   The key deficit suffered by Miss S. in the chapter vignette was ________ brought on by a stroke involving her ________.

a. partial blindness;  optic nerve

b. unilateral neglect; right hemisphere

c. bilateral neglect;  cerebellum

d. unilateral neglect; left hemisphere

e. blindness;  parietal cortex

Difficulty: 3

Question ID: 1.1-1

Page Ref: 2

Topic: Opening Vignette

Skill: Factual

Answer: b. unilateral neglect; right hemisphere

Rationale:  Damage to the right hemisphere can result in unilateral neglect in which a person ignores the left side of their body or the left visual field.

1.1-2.   Which of the following would be an example of unilateral neglect? 

a. a person who cannot sense stimuli on the left side of their body

b. a man who only shaves the left side of his face

c. a person who cannot sense stimuli on the right side of their body

d. a man who ignores the food on the right of his lunch plate

e. a woman who only applies makeup to the right side of her face

Difficulty: 3

Question ID: 1.1-2

Page Ref: 2

Topic: Opening Vignette

Skill: Applied

Answer: b. a man who only shaves the left side of his face

Rationale:  Damage to the right hemisphere can result in unilateral neglect in which a person ignores the left side of their body or the left visual field.

1.1-3.   ________ is the belief that movement of natural phenomena such as winds and tides are caused by spirits.

a. Animism

b. Dualism

c. Monism

d. Spiritualism

e. Interactionism

Difficulty: 1

Question ID: 1.1-3

Page Ref: 2

Topic: Introduction

Skill: Factual

Answer: a. Animism

Rationale:  Animism is the belief that spirits within objects cause them to move.

1.1-4. The notion that animal movement can be explained by spirits is termed

a. anarchy.

b. dualism.

c. animism.

d. theological evolution.

e. symbolic representation.

Difficulty: 1

Question ID: 1.1-4

Page Ref: 2

Topic: Introduction

Skill: Conceptual

Answer: c. animism.

Rationale:  Animism is the belief that spirits within objects cause them to move.

1.1-5. A scientist who holds a monistic philosophy would be comfortable with which of the following statements?

a. The universe is a mental construction.

b. The left hemisphere of the brain is the location of the mind.

c. The mind is not composed of matter.

d. Everything is made of matter and energy.

e. The body is physical whereas the mind is spiritual.

Difficulty: 3

Question ID: 1.1-5

Page Ref: 3

Topic: Introduction

Skill: Applied

Answer: d. Everything is made of matter and energy.          

Rationale:  The monist view of the mind-body question holds that the mind is a property of the operations of the nervous system.