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