Pshych 3B Practice Tests

patients SAID they saw what and on which side?

ART on the right

Researchers interested in brain WAVE activity would use which type of brain scan?

EEG

4 F's of Hypothalamus

Fight Flight Fear ****ing

Damage resulting in a drastic personality shift is most likely damage to which lobe of the brain?

Frontal Lobe

patients POINTED to what and on which side?

HE on the left

Concentration of glucose in an area relates to which type of brain scan?

PET

To map areas of brain responsible for specific activities, such as movement or speech, researchers would use which type of brain scan?

PET

which brain structure might be most active in answering "what do the following words have in common:plane,butter,insect"

Right brain

A picture of a cat is briefly flashed on the left visual field and a picture of a mouse is briefly flashed on the right visual field. A split brain patient will be able to use which hand to point to which thing?

Right hand to point to the Mouse

Which brain structure relays information from your eyes to your visual cortex?

Thalamus

Your ability to experience physical pleasure of a HOT SHOWER would most likely be disrupted by damage to your

Thalamus

when a patient sees a picture but cant describe it exactly right, he/she has suffered damage to which area of the brain?

Wernickes

which brain area is most responsible for understanding and producing meaningful speech?

Wernickes

which brain area is primarily involved in reading out loud?

angular gyrus

After suffering a stroke, Mr. Gamba was fine except for he couldnt navigate his neighborhood. Which part of his brain was damaged?

association areas

In which brain structure are nerves from the left side of the brain routed to the right side of the body?

brainstem

The reticular formation is located in the

brainstem

"little brain" refers to what?

cerebellum

which brain region relies on visual information in coordinating movement?

cerebellum

Brain Lesion refers to ...

destruction

To identify which brain structures are most active during a mental task, researchers would use which type of brain scan?

fMRI

researchers looking to identify regions of the brain that handle pain would use which type of brain scan?

fMRI

levels of consciousness were suggested by whom?

freud

left-handedness suggests that...

genes play a role in handedness

reward centers are located in which structure?

hypothalamus

which brain region influences the endocrine system?

hypothalamus`

which brain region is involved in speech production?

left frontal lobe

addiction is associated with reward systems in which system?

limbic

the neural system is located at the boarder between brain stem and cerebral hemispheres is called the

limbic system

physical exercise stimulates what?

neurogenisis

if a blind person is reading via Braille and their brain area dedicated to fingers expands, this is an example of

neuroplasticity

which region of the brain will an fMRI scan show as active when a person is looking at a photo

occipital lobes

which lobe of the brain receives the input that enables you to feel someone scratching your back?

parietal

Inability to recognize faces suggests damage to

right brain

failure to recognize ones arm or leg as part of one's self is most likeley associated with damage to the...

right brain

which part of the brain receives information that you are moving your legs?

sensory cortex

Damage to the left-brain will reduce ones ability to...

speak fluently

auditory hallucinations are most closely linked to with the activation of which things in which brain area?

temporal lobes

Researchers use dichotic listening tasks to investigate right-left differences in an intact brain. In this task, different verbal stimulus is presented simultaneously in each ear. Findings suggest that participants more quickly recall information heard in the right ear.

the left hemisphere is dominant in language processing

A picture of a dog is projected on the left at the same time a picture of boy is projected on the onto the right. When reporting, a split brain patient will...

verbally report that she saw the boy.

loss of occipital lobe tissue would result in loss of

visual perception