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Question 1

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According to Norman and Shallice Schema Control Units,
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  • Are linked by excitatory connections
  • Represent competing responses
  • Are used for executive functions
  • Represent units in the primary visual cortex

Question 2

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The "Cartesian Theatre" was a term coined by Daniel Dennet to criticise the explanation of,
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  • Self-motivation in goal directed behaviour
  • Consciousness in psychology of vision
  • Free-will in religion
  • Social responsibility in Social Psychology

Question 3

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In Atkinson & Shiffrin (1968) the homunculus can be seen as directly responsible for,
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  • Attention
  • Binding
  • Task Shifting
  • Forgetting

Question 4

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According to libertarian accounts, the fact that a person often makes choices proves,
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  • nothing about whether a person has free-will
  • the physical motivations do not control the will
  • that the person has no physical motivations
  • that the person has free-will

Question 5

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A person who has little planning ability is likely to,
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  • start late
  • finish late
  • get up late
  • go to bed late

Question 6

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In Shiffrin & Schneider (1977)
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  • rehearsal is used for consolidation of long-term memory
  • controlled processes are effortful
  • sensory memory precedes short-term memory
  • controlled processes follow consistent practice

Question 7

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An automatic process is generally understood to be,
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  • conscious
  • inconsistent
  • rapid
  • reflexive

Question 8

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According to neurocognitive models depicting the dorsal and the ventral streams, the latter
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  • underlies automatic visuomotor performance
  • underlies controlled visuomotor performance
  • has further projections onto the prefrontal cortex
  • has further projections onto the limbic system

Question 9

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In visual search tasks, a steep slope relating Reaction Times and distractor set size would be expected when searching for
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  • an E among Fs
  • a blue letter among red ones
  • an O among Xs
  • A small letter among big ones

Question 10

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Gratton, Coles, Sirevaag, Erikson & Donchin (1988), demonstrated that irrelevant and never executed responses can activate up the,
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  • primary visual area
  • temporal cortex
  • primary motor cortex
  • prefrontal cortex

Question 11

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Contention Scheduling is, for Norman and Shallice (1986)
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  • a mechanism to resolve competition
  • a mechanism to exert goal-directed control
  • a property of the perceptual system
  • a property of the supervisory attentional system

Question 12

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Automatic Processes are important to,
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  • prevent errors
  • plan actions
  • improve speed
  • deal with difficulties

Question 13

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A person who has difficulties getting washed and dressed in the morning, despite being able to do so when prompted, is likely to present a problem with
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  • set shifting
  • inhibition
  • action initiation
  • self-evaluation

Question 14

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Descartes agreed with Plato on the understanding that the mind (or soul),
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  • lives in the world of ideas
  • influenced by the body
  • is not limited by the body
  • was located in the Pineal Gland

Question 15

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A person spends hours playing games on the mobile phone. Which of the executive functions is the least likely to be affected?
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  • inhibition
  • set-shifting
  • action initiation
  • self-evaluation

Question 16

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Which syndrome is unlikely to display anosognosia?
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  • schizophrenia
  • alzheimer
  • OCD
  • Huntington

Question 17

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What would be a good test of Action Initiation
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  • Verbal Fluency
  • Tower of London
  • Task Switching
  • Go, No-Go

Question 18

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Action Initiation is mostly mediated by,
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  • Orbitofrontal Cortex
  • Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex
  • Basal Ganglia
  • Motor Cortex

Question 19

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Dopamine is mainly involved in,
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  • mood
  • reward
  • memory
  • perception

Question 20

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Bradyphrenia is the term referring to a common condition following neurological damage where the patient demonstrates
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  • inability to stop an action once initiated
  • inability to stop tics or repetitive movements
  • slow reactions to stimuli
  • slow generation of thoughts

Question 21

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A person who tends to tell the end of the joke before the introduction is likely to have problems with
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  • action initiation
  • goal activation
  • inhibition
  • set-shifting

Question 22

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For Besner, Stolz, and Boutilier (1997), the Stroop effect was eliminated by,
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  • Increasing the amount of practice
  • reducing the size of the target letter
  • colouring only one letter in the word
  • chaining the position of the letters

Question 23

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Haynes, Sakai, Rees, Gilbert, Frith, & Passingham (2007) found specific activation of different task goals before they were even executed in which area of the prefrontal cortex?
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  • Orbitofrontal
  • Inferiofrontal
  • Medial
  • Lateral

Question 24

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How would you measure of a patient has problems with goal activation
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  • Verbal fluency
  • Tower of London
  • Wisconsin Card Sort Test
  • Go, No-Go

Question 25

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Hampshire, MacDonald & Owen (2013) found that retired American Football players showed under-activiaion in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex following which test?
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  • Verbal Fluency
  • Tower of London
  • Wisconsin Card Sort Test
  • Go, No-Go

Question 26

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Damage to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is likely to induce,
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  • echolia
  • hyperflexia
  • low self-care
  • anxiety

Question 27

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In the stop-signal paradigm, when does the stop signal normally appear?
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  • before the target
  • after the target
  • at the same time as the target
  • in these tasks there is no target

Question 28

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A person with goal activation problems will also demonstrate difficulties with,
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  • inhibition
  • self-regulation
  • impulse control
  • action initiation

Question 29

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Aharoni et al (2013) could predict the chance of future rearrests for non-violent crimes by studying the activity of a particular brain area in the go no-go task. Which area are we referring to?
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  • Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex
  • Orbitofrontal Cortex
  • Medial Prefrontal Cortex
  • Anterior Cingulate Cortex

Question 30

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In Monchi et al's (2001) study, the authors tried to dissociate a number of processes using fMRI and the WCST. Which condition was used to measure set shifting?
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  • Negative Feedback
  • Matching after negative feedback
  • Positive Feedback
  • Matching after positive feedback

Question 31

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In the alternating runs paradigm (Rogers & Monsell, 1995), the estimation of switch costs (switch minus repeat) does not measure differences in,
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  • task set configuration
  • goal activation
  • rule maintenance
  • rule activation

Question 32

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In the Go-No Go task, the strongest response inhibition should be seen when participants successfully withhold responses in which condition?
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  • 20% Go, 80% No-Go
  • 50% Go, 50% No-Go
  • 80% Go, 20% No-Go
  • 20% Go, 20% No-Go

Question 33

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The error related negativity component (ERN/Me) peaks approximately at 100ms,
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  • after incorrect response activation
  • after target onset
  • before incorrect response activation
  • before the target onset

Question 34

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To which ability to we refer when evaluating and self-monitoring?
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  • inhibit responses
  • inhibit impulses
  • detect when an error has been made
  • detect when the context is inappropriate

Question 35

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Awareness of an error can be measured by which ERP component?
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  • P300
  • Ne
  • Pe
  • P200

Question 36

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During perseverations, participants are often,
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  • not aware of the change in the rule
  • aware of the new rule that needs to be applied, but not able to switch
  • aware that they made a mistake, but unable to retrieve the new rule
  • not aware of the alternative rules

Question 37

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Monchi et al (2001) studied some process dissociations within the Winconsisn Card Sort Test using fMRI. Where did they find activation related to the processing of the cue to switch?
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  • Left Posterior Parietal Cortex
  • Motor Cortex
  • Left Inferotemporal Cortex
  • Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex

Question 38

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Mixing Costs do not measure
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  • vigilance
  • rule activation
  • working memory
  • planning

Question 39

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Impulses and Reflexes are similar in many of the aspects listed below. Choose the option that does not apply
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  • They are automatic
  • They can be unconscious
  • They are driven by emotions
  • They are processed fast

Question 40

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For compatibilists accounts the relationship between free-will and determinism is,
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  • free-will is possible and physical determinism is true
  • free-will is possible and physical determinism is false
  • free-will is impossible and physical determinism is true
  • free-will is impossible and physical determinism is false

Question 41

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Impulsive behaviours are characterised by prioritising
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  • long-term goals over short-term goals
  • short-term goals over long-term goals
  • relieve over regret
  • reward over punishment

Question 42

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ADHD does not normally co-exist in the same patient with which of the following syndromes
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  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Depression
  • Antisocial Behaviour
  • Psychotic Behaviour

Question 43

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Increased levels of addiction gradually induce
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  • an overactive ventrolateral cortex
  • an under-active orbitofrontal cortex
  • increased in dopamine
  • increases in GABA

Question 44

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Most of the actions driven by emotions are executed by a network of brain areas commonly knows at the "zombie brain". Which of the following brain areas is not part of it?
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  • Thalamus
  • Amygdala
  • Hippocampus
  • Hypothalamus

Question 45

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Utilisation behaviours related to which other syndrome?
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  • Hyperkinesia
  • Tourette
  • Echolia
  • ADHD

Question 46

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Non-adaptive utilisation behaviour occurs when the response is triggered by,
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  • objects and no context
  • objects and context
  • context, but no objects
  • neither objects nor contexts; but memory contents

Question 47

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In which kind of lesion is a patient most prone to develop anosognosia
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  • left hemisphere
  • right hemisphere
  • subcortical nuclei
  • amygdala

Question 48

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The error related positivity (Pe) is mostly captured in which set of electrodes
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  • Frontopolar
  • Centroparietal
  • Frontocentral
  • Parietal

Question 49

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Which of the following test is the most appropriate to evaluate response inhibition (the non-emotional type)?
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  • Wisconsin Card Sorting test
  • Go No-Go task
  • Task Switching
  • Iowa Gambling Task

Question 50

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From the following list, which of these executive functions is least likely to be modulated by Broca?
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  • Response inhibition
  • Set Shifting
  • Action initiation
  • Self-Monitoring

Question 51

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During Monchi et al's (2001) study. Where did they find activation related to the positive feedback (cue to repeat)?
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  • right mid-dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
  • left posterior prefrontal cortex
  • lateral premotor cortex
  • ventro-lateral prefrontal cortex

Question 52

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During Monchi et al's (2001) study. Where did they find activation related to the matching after the negative feedback (switch)?
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  • left posterior prefrontal cortex
  • right mid-dorsolateral PFC
  • Lateral premotor cortex
  • ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

Question 53

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During Monchi et al's (2001) study. Where did they find activation related to the matching after positive feedback (repeat)?
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  • lateral premotor cortex
  • right mid-dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
  • left posterior prefrontal cortex
  • ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

Question 54

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In the Go-No Go paradigm, when does the stop signal normally appear?
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  • before the target
  • after the target
  • at the same time as the target
  • in these tasks there is no target

Question 55

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Adaptive utilisation behaviour occurs when the response is triggered by,
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  • objects and no context
  • object and context
  • context, but no objects
  • neither objects not contexts, but memory contents

Question 56

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The error related negativity (Ne) is mostly captured in which set of electrodes?
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  • Fronto-polar
  • Centro-parietal
  • Front-central
  • Parietal
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