Deck 2: Neuroscience and Psychology

Question 1

A scientific discipline dedicated to the understanding of the nervous system is referred as the _______

A)physiology
B)neurology
C)psychiatry
D)neuroscience

Answer 1

neuroscience

Question 2

___________ is impairment in the ability to recognize faces, due to damage in the right hemisphere.

A)facial agnosia
B)facial apraxia
C)facial aphasia
D)enkephalin

Answer 2

facial agnosia

Question 3

The fissure in the neocortex separating the frontal and parietal lobes is known as ____________

A)fissure of sylvius
B)fissure of rolando
C)follicle cells
D)fastigal nucleus

Answer 3

fissure of rolando

Question 4

The fissure in the neocortex separating the temporal and parietal lobes is called_____________

A)fissure of sylvius
B)fissure of rolando
C)follicle cells
D)fastigal nucleus

Question 5

The point on the ventral surface of the brain where the optic nerves from each eye merge together then separate as they continue in the visual pathway, is called________________

A)optic chiasma
B)optic disc
C)optic pathway
D)occipital lobe

Question 6

________________ is the layer of tissue in the utricle that contains the hair cell receptors.

A)otoconia
B)corti
C)optic disc
D)macula

Question 7

__________________ is an opening near the terminal end of the cochlea, where the scala tympani communicate with the scala vestibule.

A)foves
B)helicotrema
C)hair cells
D)otoconia

Question 8

A collection of structures in the telecephalon, concerned with the control of emotional reactivity, is referred as____________________

A)neocortex
B)cortex
C)limbic system
D)brain stem

Question 9

________________ is the founder of psychoanalysis.

A)adler
B)watson
C)freud
D)jung

Question 10

_________________ founded the first psychological laboratory.

A)i.pavlov
B)wilhelm wundt
C)j.b.watson
D)william james

Question 11

Cessation of breath during sleep is called as _____________

A)apnea
B)insomnia
C)narcolepsy
D)hypersomnia

Question 12

The process through which information stored in memory is referred as __________________

A)retrieval
B)encoding
C)storage
D)semantic memory

Question 13

___________________ is the awareness of the distance between an observer and an object.

A)depth perception
B)depth analysis
C)size perception
D)shape perception

Question 14

_____________________ psychologists views that the organization and relationship of elements determine the mental experience a person has.

A)gestalt
B)structuralism
C)humanistic
D)cognitive

Question 15

Retinal disparity is ____________________cue of depth perception.

A)binaural
B)monaural
C)binocular
D)monocular

Question 16

The process of organizing environmental stimuli into some meaningful patterns or wholes is known as ________________________

A)sensation
B)attention
C)perception
D)illusion

Question 17

Escape learning is an example of _______________

A)positive reinforcement
B)negative reinforcement
C)positive punishment
D)negative punishment

Question 18

The theory that perceptual world is in large measure constructed from experience is called _________

A)adaptation level
B)transactionalism
C)arousal theory
D)vascualr theory

Question 19

The process by which certain infant animals learn to follow or approach the first moving object is __________

A)instinct
B)reflex
C)imprinting
D)generalization

Question 20

The most effective procedure is CS-US pairing is to present _________________

A)cs before us
B)cs after us
C)cs along with us
D)none of the above