PSYC 345: Quiz 3-Exam 1

Ramon is looking at pictures of scantily clad women in a magazine. He is focusing on their body parts, particularly their chest and legs. Which part of Ramon's brain is activated by this viewing?

Extrastriate Body Area (EBA)

The PPA and the FFA both respond to faces. True False

False, only FFA (Fusiform Face Area)

Groups of neurons or structures that are connected within the nervous system are called ________.

Neural Networks

Which part of the brain is important for touch, pressure, and pain?

Parietal Lobe

A "single dissociation" study relies on one person with brain damage in one location of the brain performing one task. True False

false, 2 tasks

Broca's area is a terrible example of "localization of function." True False

false, is an example of "localization of function"

The fusiform face area (FFA) in the brain is often damaged in patients with

prosopagnosia

Which of the following procedures can be used to help determine the exact way in which nerve fibers communicate with each other?

DTI

Which of the following is consistent with the idea of localization of function?

Brain areas are specialized for specific functions, neurons in different areas of the brain respond to different stimuli, specific areas of the brain serve different functions

Josiah is trying to speak to his wife, but his speech is very slow and labored, often with jumbled sentence structure. Josiah may have damage to his

Broca's Area

Paul Broca's and Carl Wernicke's research provided early evidence for

localization of function

Hemoglobin molecules in areas of high brain activity

lose some of the oxygen they are transporting

The occipital lobe is

the part of the cerebral cortex where the visual cortex is located.

Brain-imaging techniques can determine all of the following EXCEPT

the structure of individual neurons.

A "double dissociation" procedure relys on 2 people. True False

true

It is easy for a ball to roll down a plank mostly because it is round on all sides. True False

true

MRI makes it possible to identify which areas of the brain are activated during different cognitive processes. True False

true

Processing a face by the brain, begins in the occipital lobe. True False

true

The "Pain Matrix" is not a movie it's a neural network. True False

true

Two brain areas are functionally independent if neither is "functionally involved" in a task carried out by the other. True False

true

Wernicke's area is in the temporal lobe. True False

true