Psych Exam 4 Quizzes
a large frontal lesion in the left hemisphere can produce what type of aphasia
Broca's
In ERP studies of normal subjects, it has been found that a grammatically correct sentence containing a word whose meaning does not fit into the sentence provokes a(n) _______ wave from the _______ lobe.
N400, temporoparietal
a patient speaks in a fluent manner, although her speech contains many paraphasias that make it unintelligible. She also demonstrates poor comprehension of verbal material. This patient is most likely suffering from _______ aphasia.
Wernicke's
H.M. suffered what most striking impairment
anterograde amnesia
when is information filtered out in early-selection models of attention?
at the level of sensory input
in most split-brain patients, words presented to the left visual field
cannot be repeated verbally
what is an area of gray matter within the white matter of the forebrain, and is thought to play an important role in generating the experience of being conscious
claustrum
The challenge facing researchers who seek to study the functions of the two brain hemispheres is that the hemispheres have many connections and function as one. The solution to this has been to study split-brain patients in which the _______ has been cut, thereby separating the connection between the hemispheres.
corpus callosum
the amygdala is directly involved in
fear conditioning
what brain areas are implicated in K.C.'s inability to recall autobiographical details of his life from years before the accident
frontal and parietal cortex
which region of the cortex is crucial for facial recognition
fusiform gyrus
P3 component of auditory processing is associated with
higher order cognitive processing of stimuli
place cells are located in the
hippocampus
what is one of the revealing finds of neuroeconomics
humans are risk-adverse
in infants, the left planum temporale is larger than the right, suggesting that
humans have an inborn neural mechanism for language
what does the subject do in a delayed non-matching-to-sample task in monkeys
identifies an unfamiliar object in a pair of objects
what is the attentional phenomenon called that happens when a viewer closely attends to one task and misses other nonattended stimuli
inattentional blindness
what likely evolved because it prevents reflexive attention from settling on unimportant stimuli for more than an instant, a reaction that would be adaptive in animals foraging for food and/or scanning for predators
inhibition of return
PET scans of brain activation during progressively more complex language processing tasks showed _______ in Broca's area as compared to activation during simple word repetition or reading aloud.
marked activation
patients like H.M. can learn to read mirror-reversed text even though they don't remember practicing it demonstrates that their problem is not in learning verbal material but in forming what type of memories
new declarative memories
diminished social insight, distractibility and emotional liability are associated with injuries to what cortex
orbitofrontal
attention in which the focus coincides with the individuals sensory orientation is called ________ attention
overt
change in the processing of a stimulus due to prior exposure to the same or similar stimuli is referred to as
priming
what type of non-declarative memory is not effected by damage to basal ganglia
priming
people with conduction aphasia are unable to
repeat words or sentences
knowing the meaning of a word without knowing when or where you learned it is what type of memory
semantic
compared to animals in impoverished conditions, those in enriched conditions have heavier brains due to increased thickness of ___
the cortex
what does the hard problem of consciousness refer to understanding
the neural processes that result in a persons unique and subjective experience
consistent with the motor theory of speech perception, deaf people who use American Sign Language use _______ language-related regions of the left hemisphere as hearing people who use spoken language do.
the same
in a symbolic cuing task, _______ attention is shown to enhance processing, reducing reaction time to the stimulus, and _________ cues decrease reaction time the most
voluntary, valid