psych

The person most strongly associated with identifying deficits in the motor speech area and in the ability to produce speech is

Paul Broca

Significant damage to which of the following parts of the brain will most likely cause a person to fall into a deep coma from which the person will be unable to awaken?

Reticular Formation

In adult humans, which of the following is typically true of REM sleep?

correlated with dreaming

Damage to which of the following brain structures may cause the inability to detect the emotional significance of facial expressions, especially those demonstrating fear?

Amygdala

The area labeled X in the drawing above denotes which of the following structures?

Axon terminals

Sam has shown some marked changes in the way he is able to communicate after having a stroke. He knows what he wants to say, but his speech is slow and labored. Sam's grammar is also quite poor. The part of Sam's brain that most likely sustained damage is

Broca's Area

During the high-wire act, Grace walks along a rope suspended 30 feet above the circus floor. Which of the following is most involved in helping Grace coordinate her movements and maintain her balance during the performance?

Cerebellum

A participant in a study of music perception listens to music with electrodes attached to her scalp while data are collected on the activity of her brain. This technique is called

EEG

A person with a severe head injury subsequently acts irresponsibly, does not seem to be able to plan effectively, and is easy to anger. Which of the following brain areas is most likely injured?

Frontal Lobe

A person with a severe head injury subsequently acts irresponsibly, does not seem to be able to plan effectively, and is easy to anger. Which of the following brain areas is most likely injured?

FrontalLobe

Professor Janeja is studying which brain regions are involved in learning to correctly navigate a maze task. She randomly assigns half of a group of mice to get a lesion in one area of the brain. The other half does not get a lesion. Based on the following graph, where in the brain is the most likely site of the lesion?

Hippocampus

Jeff lives in the United States, and he recently flew to Spain. Even after sleeping for several hours on the flight, he still felt lethargic for a few days. If Jeff has not caught an illness, which of the following is the most likely explanation for his physical response?

His circadian rhythm has been disrupted

Jeff lives in the United States, and he recently flew to Spain. Even after sleeping for several hours on the flight, he still felt lethargic for a few days. If Jeff has not caught an illness, which of the following is the most likely explanation for his physical response?

His circadian rhythm has been disrupted.

Stimulation of which of the following brain areas will lead a person to eat?

Lateral Hypothalamus

The network of structures involved in emotion, motivation, and memory is the

Limbic system

Beth received a hemispherectomy to treat a seizure disorder when she was two years old. However, by the time she was five years old, her cognitive abilities were the same as those of a neurotypical five year old. Which of the following best explains her abilities?

Neuroplasticity

significant damage to which of the following parts of the brain will most likely cause a person to fall into a deep coma from which the person will be unable to awaken

Reticular Formation

If an individual has lost the ability to feel pain in the left arm, there is most likely damage to what area of the brain?

Right Partial Lobe

During the night, Alicia stops breathing repeatedly, frequently gasps for air, and snores loudly at regular intervals. Alicia is most likely suffering from which of the following conditions?

Sleep Apnea

George was involved in an accident and experienced head trauma. Although his eyes were functioning normally, he was unable to see. Which area of the brain was most likely affected by the accident?

The occipital Lobe

A person will most likely develop aphasia as a result of damage to which of the following parts of the brain?

Wernicke's Area

An individual was admitted to the hospital after experiencing a mild tingling on the right side ofthe face and a sudden inability to speak. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a doctor would likely find

an abnormality in the brain tissue of left hemisphere

Difficulty in typing smoothly on a keyboard would most likely result from damage to the

cerebellum

An individual with damage to Wernicke's area is most likely to have difficulty

comprehending spoken request for information

Q13 Parkinsons disease is most closely associated with

decrease dopamine

A person with damage to Broca's area would most likely demonstrate which of the following symptoms?

difficulty with speech production

During a psychology experiment, a researcher uses a probe to lesion the ventromedial nucleus of a rat's hypothalamus. After the procedure the rat most likely will

eat more and gain weight

Which of the following groups of characteristics best describes the REM sleep stage?

fast breathing

Consistent with the concept of neural plasticity, neurons in mammals have been found to change the way they function as a result of repeated stimulation by doing which of the following?

growing new dendritic spines

Sleep paralysis typically occurs in people who are

in REM

Brain lateralization refers to the

inclination for certain cognitive processes to be specialized to one hemisphere of the brain or the other

The brain's ability to adapt after it is damaged is known as

plasticity

An image projected to the left visual field of a split-brained person will be processed in the

right visual cortex

In right-handed individuals, which of the following abilities is predominantly a function of the right hemisphere of the brain?

spatial reasoning

Damage to a small part of the occipital lobe would most likely result in a

visual deficit