PSY 3460 Ch 15

b

A patient who has difficulty speaking but has good comprehension of verbal material is most likely suffering from _______ aphasia. a. conduction b. Broca's c. global d. Wernicke's

c

All the following may aid in stabilization and reorganization after brain damage except a. the use of stem cells. b. neurogenesis. c. reverse transcription. d. collateral sprouting.

c

Nonverbal visual stimuli, such as faces or shapes, are recognized more accurately if they are presented to the a. right visual field. b. left hemisphere. c. left visual field. d. precise center of the two visual fields.

c

Prosopagnosia is the inability to a. distinguish different patterns of visual stimuli. b. identify objects by touch. c. recognize faces. d. learn the names of objects that are seen.

b

The sounds that make up a language are called _______, and the system of rules for producing sentences is called _______. a. dichotics; syntax b. phonemes; grammar c. morphemes; prosody d. linguists; pragmatics

c

Which region of cortex is crucial for face recognition? a. Arcuate fasciculus b. Planum temporale c. Fusiform gyrus d. Angular gyrus

d

Damage to the _______, which transmits information between Wernicke's area and Broca's area leads to _______ aphasia. a. angular gyrus; fluent b. primary visual cortex; global c. motor cortex; nonfluent d. arcuate fasciculus; conduction

d

In boxers, the devastating effects of repeated blows to the head are evident in the development of a progressive cognitive impairment called a. micropolygyria. b. ectopia. c. hemispherectomy. d. chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

c

The goal of constraint-induced movement therapy is to encourage stroke patients to use the afflicted arm by _______ the unaffected arm. a. mirroring b. attachment to c. restraining d. forced movement controlled by

c

Unusual groupings of cells in the outer layers of the cerebral cortex have been seen in postmortem studies of a. childhood aphasia b. Broca's aphasia c. dyslexia d. apraxia