Psych 3.3 Quiz
A man with damage to his corpus callosum stares at a point straight ahead while someone flashes HOUSEBOAT on a screen for a split second. The word HOUSE is on the left half of the screen and BOAT is on the right. He is asked what he saw. What will he probably reply?
"boat"
What effect do new experiences have on neurons?
Axons and dendrites withdraw old branches and grow new ones.
How does the cerebral cortex control muscle movements?
Axons go from the cortex to the medulla and spinal cord, which control muscles.
Does extensive practice at playing stringed music instruments change the brain? If so, how?
Brain areas responsible for hearing and finger sensations expand in size.
In which way does the cerebral cortex control the body?
Each hemisphere controls the opposite side of the body.
Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding the brain and experience?
Experience can increase size and connections of brain areas related to the task.
__________ contributes about 20 percent to the factors that determine life success.
IQ
A belief in monism predicts which of the following?
If you lose part of your brain, you lose part of your mind.
__________ is the ability to understand other people: what motivates them, how they work, how to work cooperatively with them.
Interpersonal intelligence
__________ is a capacity to form an accurate, veridical model of oneself and to be able to use that model to operate effectively in life.
Intrapersonal intelligence
What does the corpus callosum do?
It exchanges information between the left and right hemispheres.
What does the right hemisphere of the brain do, in most people?
It feels the left half of the body and controls muscles on the left side.
What does the sympathetic nervous system do?
It readies the body for vigorous emergency activity.
You see someone else's eyes move, but you can't see your own eyes move in a mirror. Why not?
Part of the brain becomes inactive during voluntary eye movements.
Which of the following is evidence in favor of the idea of monism?
People who lose part of their brain lose part of their mental ability.
__________ cognition even in the realm of emotion is, in part, due to a quirk in the history of that science.
Psychology's overemphasis on
__________ is based on the same notion of a single kind of aptitude that determines your future.
SAT
__________ is recognizing a feeling as it happens — it is a keystone of emotional
Self-awareness
__________ is both distinct from academic abilities and a key part of what makes people do well in the practicalities of life.
Social Intelligence
Someone blind because of damage to the visual cortex continues feeling wakeful when the sun rises and sleepy at night. How can we explain this tendency?
The eyes continue sending information to other brain areas that control waking.
One adult suffered and another suffered damage to the visual cortex. Although both are blind, what is one way in which they differ?
The one with eye damage can still have visual imagery and visual dreams.
After damage to the upper spinal cord, what happens?
The person loses voluntary muscle control, but continues to have many reflexes.
__________ ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.
We should spend less time
Which of the following statements about the nervous system is NONSENSE?
We use only about 10% of the brain.
__________ from the classes of the 1940s were followed into middle age, the men with the highest test scores in college were not particularly successful compared to their lower-scoring peers.
When ninety-five Harvard students
If you were "motion blind," what disability would you have?
You would find it difficult to see that something is moving.
If you could simultaneously activate every neuron in your brain, what would happen?
You would suffer convulsions.
Under what circumstances do some people experience "blindsight"?
after damage to much of the visual cortex
The question of how separate brain areas produce a unified perception of an object is the
binding problem
EEG, MEG, PET, and fMRI are all methods of measuring what?
brain activity
How does functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measure brain activity?
by detecting how much oxygen various brain areas have removed from the blood
One person recognizes faces easily and the other has much trouble. How do they probably differ?
connections to one brain area
A split-brain patient has surgical damage to which brain structure?
corpus callosum
What connects the left hemisphere of the brain to the right hemisphere?
corpus collosum
What is difficult for a split-brain person to do?
describe in words what the left hand feels
Parietal lobe damage interferes with which aspect of vision?
detecting the location of objects
__________ is a domain that, as surely as math or reading, can be handled with greater or lesser skill, and requires its unique set of competencies.
emotional life
Which of the following has been observed in people with a certain kind of brain damage?
emotional responses to stimulation on the arm that the person doesn't feel
Which lobe of the cerebral cortex includes the motor cortex, which controls fine movements?
frontal
What is the endocrine system?
glands that produce and release hormones
What is impaired in someone with damage to the temporal lobe of the cortex?
hearing
The "binding problem" refers to which theoretical question?
how we perceive what we see, hear, and feel as a single object
An adult who became blind because of eye damage (with the brain intact) can still do what?
imagine visual scenes and experience vision in dreams
Which of these functions depends mainly on the left hemisphere, in most people?
language
The ability of newborn infants to imitate facial expressions suggests which of these?
mirror neurons
Under what circumstances can a split-brain person feel something and say what it is?
only after feeling it with the right hand
After damage to the, a person has an impairment in body perception (touch, etc.) and impaired perception of object locations. Where is the damage probably located?
parietal
If we want to predict people's attitudes toward use of police and military power, which of the following would be best to measure?
people's responses to sudden loud noises
The ability to "bind" sensations to perceive an object depends on brain areas that do what?
perceive the location of objects
The nerves that carry information from the sense organs to the spinal cord and brain, and from the spinal cord and brain to the glands and muscles, are collectively known as the
peripheral nervous system
Damage or immaturity of which brain area is linked to impulsive decisions?
prefrontal cortex
The "binding problem" is most related to which of these theoretical issues?
relationship of mind to brain
Various parts of the cortex--such as the occipital, parietal, and temporal lobes--control different
sensory systems
Impaired facial recognition, impaired motion perception, and impaired interpretation of emotional information can all be caused by
specific kinds of brain damage.
During danger, the ___ system is more active. When danger passes, the ___ system is more active.
sympathetic... parasympathetic
What does the autonomic nervous system control?
the heart and other organs
The left hemisphere controls ________ and the right hemisphere controls _________.
the right side of the body...the left side of the body
To perceive sight, sound, and touch as coming from the same object, what is necessary?
the stimulations must be simultaneous
For what medical purpose have surgeons sometimes cut the corpus callosum?
to control epilepsy
After damage to the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex, what is impaired?
vision
The occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex is specialized for
vision
When are mirror neurons active?
when you do something or when you see someone else do the same thing
What does fMRI measure?
which brain areas are using the most oxygen
Under what circumstances do healthy, normal people experience motion blindness?
while making voluntary eye movements
