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Brain Function Test A

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Professional Clinical Neuropsychology (Brain Function) Quiz on Brain Function Test A, created by Eunho Lee on 30/12/2015.
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Question 1

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The cells that serve to maintain the barrier between the blood stream and the nervous system are called
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  • neurons
  • glia
  • axons
  • dendrites

Question 2

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The brain areas that are located towards the front of the head are referred to as
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  • anterior or rostral
  • posterior or caudal
  • lateral
  • inferior or ventral

Question 3

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If one looks at an image of the brain after it has been cut top to bottom, so that the left hemisphere is separated from the right one, one is seeing
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  • a horizontal view
  • a coronal view
  • a bilateral view
  • a sagittal view

Question 4

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After a stroke, Peter experiences difficulties moving his right arm and hand. Brain scans indicate severe damage to portions of his left hemisphere. This suggests that motor control occurs
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  • in a proximal part of the brain
  • in a contralateral part of the brain
  • in a ipsilateral part of the brain
  • bilaterally in the brain

Question 5

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The main route for the exchange of information between the central and the peripheral nervous system is called
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  • the medulla
  • the pons
  • the midbrain
  • the spinal cord

Question 6

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A more intense reaction of a neuron to a stimulus is indicated by
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  • An increase in the voltage of the action potential
  • A decrease in the voltage during hyperpolarization
  • An increased production of myelin
  • An increase in the rate of firing

Question 7

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Which is the most common inhibitory neurotransmitter that is an amino acid?
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  • glutamate
  • catecholamine
  • GABA
  • serotonin

Question 8

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The discoveries of Paul Broca and Karl Wernicke suggested that the ability to produce and comprehend language is dominated by the left hemisphere. The idea that a mental function relies mainly on one hemisphere is called
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  • the split-brain theory
  • hemispheric interaction
  • cerebral interaction
  • cerebral dominance

Question 9

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Which of the following mental function does not rely mainly on the right hemisphere?
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  • face recognition
  • memory for faces
  • mental rotation
  • the phonology of language

Question 10

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Which of the following functions does not rely on the cerebellum?
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  • the smooth coordination of movements
  • performing ballistic movements
  • the initiation of movements
  • the timing of movements

Question 11

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Which of the following is true?
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  • The anterior cingulate cortex is important for the perception of novel, atypical movements.
  • The anterior cingulate cortex is important for the selection of novel, atypical movements.
  • The anterior cingulate cortex is important for the perception of fully mastered skills.
  • The anterior cingulate cortex is important for the selection of fully mastered skills.

Question 12

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Which of the following brain areas is not especially involved in face recognition?
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  • the fusiform face area
  • the hippocampus
  • anterior regions of the temporal lobe
  • regions of the superior temporal sulcus

Question 13

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Which brain area is important for short-term spatial memory?
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  • left frontal lobe
  • left temporal lobe
  • right frontal lobe
  • right temporal lobe

Question 14

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Which of the following is not a symptom of the Gerstmann syndrome?
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  • anosognosia
  • finger agnosia
  • dyscalculia
  • dysgraphia

Question 15

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Which of the following brain areas function a a gating mechanism for selecting or filtering incoming sensory information?
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  • the superior colliculus
  • the thalamus
  • the RAS in the brain stem
  • the parietal lobe

Question 16

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Which of the following attentional functions does not rely heavily on the parietal lobe?
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  • the binding of various object features such as color and form
  • providing a spatial frame of reference for attentional processing
  • the allocation of resources needed to meet attentional demands
  • keeping the activation level of the cortex high enough to prevent falling sleep

Question 17

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Suppose a neurological patient has the intention to say 'hat' but says 'rat' instead. This is an example of a
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  • semantic paraphasia
  • phonemic paraphasia
  • neologism
  • Broca's aphasia

Question 18

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Which term refers to the intonation of an utterance?
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  • inference
  • syntax
  • prosody
  • semantics

Question 19

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Which treatment for depression has temporary amnesia as a significant side-effect?
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  • anti-depressant drugs (e.g. Prozac)
  • electroconvulsive therapy
  • light therapy
  • psychotherapy

Question 20

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Suppose you are neuropsychologist who has to assess the functioning of memory of one of your patients. You use a memory task in which your patient has to learn lists of girls' names. Thereafter, the patient has to reproduce all names of the list that begin with a specific letter that you tell him. The task you are using is an example of
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  • free recall
  • cued recall
  • recognition
  • a digit span task

Question 21

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Which of the following refers to the ability to make attributions about other people's mental states?
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  • theory of mind
  • theory of Baddeley
  • theory of emotional intelligence (Goleman's theory)
  • theory of prediction

Question 22

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Which of the following symptoms is not associated with executive dysfunction?
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  • impaired ability to use contingency information to guide behavior
  • impaired ability to stay on task
  • impaired ability to sequence
  • impaired ability to calculate probability

Question 23

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Which of the following brain areas is especially involved in emotional learning?
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  • the substantia nigra
  • the amygdala
  • the putamen
  • the medulla

Question 24

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Which of the following brain areas is extremely important for the evaluation of reward and punishment contingencies and of changes in these relationships?
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  • the orbitofrontal prefrontal cortex
  • the ventromedial prefrontal cortex
  • the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
  • the insula

Question 25

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Which of the following brain area is most involved in the interpretation of emotion conveyed in a face?
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  • the right prefrontal cortex
  • the left prefrontal cortex
  • the right parietal lobe
  • the left parietal lobe
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