Deck 10: Spatial Ability

Question 1

The ability to understand space and process spatial information is known as

A) Object ability
B) Spatial ability
C) Information processing ability
D) Spatial orientation

Answer 1

Spatial ability

Question 2

Which of the following is not a skill that is associated with spatial ability?

A) Targeting
B) Disembedding
C) Spatial visualization
D) Spatial sensation

Answer 2

Spatial sensation

Question 3

The ability to use detailed features of objects point by point to assess relative position is referred to as

A) local depth perception
B) area depth perception
C) global depth perception
D) universal depth perception

Answer 3

local depth perception

Question 4

What are participants required to do in mental rotation task?

A) Identify the position in which a line is oriented in space
B) Use given cues to identify the relative distance between two objects
C) Identify whether two or more objects are the same or different
D) Correctly differentiate between letters such as d and p or b and q

Question 5

The ventral visual stream is considered the _________pathway and the dorsal visual stream is considered the____________pathway

A) why; what
B) what; how
C) why; how
D) how; what

Question 6

The role of the dorsal stream is

A) to know what motor acts must be performed to manipulate an object
B) to know how motor acts must be performed to manipulate an object
C) to know when motor acts must be performed to manipulate an object
D) to know why motor acts must be performed to manipulate an object

Question 7

The properties of the cells within these areas are sensitive to certain attributes that allow stable cognitive maps to be made

A) occipital areas 5 and 7
B) occipital areas 3 and 5
C) parietal areas 3 and 5
D) parietal areas 5 and 7

Question 8

What are place cells?

A) Cells within the hippocampus that respond when moving through space
B) Cells within the hypothalamus that are activated during memory consolidation
C) Cells within the hippocampus that are activated during memory consolidation
D) Cells within the hypothalamus that respond when moving through space

Question 9

When one is interacting with the spatial locations of objects, they can utilize three types of information about the object

A) position, cue and size responses
B) place, size and cue responses
C) cue, place and position responses
D) size, position and place responses

Question 10

The space more than five feet away from one's body is referred to as

A) intrapersonal space
B) extrapersonal space
C) interpersonal space
D) personal space

Question 11

A test of spatial ability that relies on one's knowledge of intrapersonal space is called the

A) Test of personal space
B) Areola test
C) Corsi block test
D) Acredolo test

Question 12

A short-cut that is adapted through spatial learning is known as

A) good spatial ability
B) dead reckoning
C) a cognitive map
D) parvocellular pathway
E) visual stream

Question 13

What is caching?

A) a behaviour that is characterized by hiding food and retrieving it later
B) a loss of spatial knowledge regarding one's own body
C) a very basic spatial ability that is used to determine the relative position of an object
D) a response to the spatial location of an object in which movements are guided by a cue

Question 14

Which of the following is not a disturbance in personal space?

A) macrosomatognosia
B) left-right confusion
C) finger agnosia
D) topographical amnesia

Question 15

What is microsomatognosia?

A) A neurological disorder of personal space in which an individual believes that part of his or her body is much larger than normal.
B) A neurological disorder in which an individual incorrectly identifies and reduplicates people, places, objects or events
C) A neurological disorder of personal space in which an individual believes that part of his or her body is much smaller than normal.
D) A neurological disorder that occurs when an individual denies that any disorder exists, both verbally and through their motor behaviour

Question 16

When an individual can recognize and name body parts but has difficulty pointing to the correct body part on command they are likely experiencing

A) Propospagnosia
B) Autotopagnosia
C) Anosognosia
D) Macrosomatognosia

Question 17

When an individual suffers from Gerstmann syndrome they demonstrate all of the following except

A) finger agnosia
B) dyscalculia
C) left-right confusion
D) gaze apraxia
E) dysgraphia
F) All of the above are present in Gerstmann syndrome

Question 18

Reduplicative paramnesia is usually the result of damage to the

A) right frontal and limbic regions as well as the brain stem and cerebellum
B) right temporal and limbic regions as well as the brain stem and cerebrum
C) right parietal and limbic regions as well as the brain stem and cerebellum
D) right occipital and limbic regions as well as the brain stem and cerebrum

Question 19

The loss of ability to navigate in environments that were previously familiar and navigable is called

A) Optic ataxia
B) Navigational neglect
C) Anosognosia
D) Topographical amnesia

Question 20

Which of the following is not typically used when giving directions to unseen locations?

A) Cardinal directions
B) Relative turns
C) Distances
D) Landmarks
E) All of the above are typically used
F) None of the above are typically used

Question 21

Which of the following is not a basic component of spatial ability?

A) targeting
B) disembedding
C) spatial tendency
D) spatial orientation
E) spatial perception

Question 22

What are the two types of depth perception?

A) local and global
B) spatial and superficial
C) close proximity and distant proximity
D) left field and right field
E) inclusive and aesthetic

Question 23

Which of the following is not a characteristic of Gerstmann syndrome?

A) finger agnosia
B) left-right confusion
C) dyscalculia
D) dysgraphia
E) aprosodia.

Question 24

What is the term for a neurological disorder or personal space in which an individual believes that part of his or her body is much larger than normal?

A) macroaphasia
B) macrosomatognosia
C) engorgmatognosia
D) giantognosia
E) None of the above.

Question 25

Microsomatognosia is most likely due to the dysfunction of_________.

A) the right parietal lobe
B) the left parietal lobe
C) the temporal lobes
D) the occipital lobe
E) the frontal lobe

Question 26

The spatial properties of an object that is used to determine whether or not an item shares similar spatial properties with another is known as_________.

A) feature specific geometry
B) object geometry
C) spatial geometry
D) object property
E) spatial property

Question 27

What is the term for responses to the spatial location of an object, in which movements are made using the body as a referent?

A) intrapersonal responses
B) body referred responses
C) body responses
D) position responses
E) body position responses

Question 28

Nicole cannot use the McDonalds by her house as a way to locate her home, but she is able to recognize that the building is a McDonalds. Which of the following disorders is Nicole likely to have?

A) topographical agnosia
B) topographical amnesia
C) topographical aphasia
D) landmark agnosia
E) landmark amnesia

Question 29

A person with anosognosia…

A) has difficulty remembering spoken language.
B) has damage to the frontal lobes.
C) has a lack of awareness of the deficit.
D) has an inability to localize one's own body.
E) None of these.

Question 30

Can a person with autopagnosia point to the arm of a model doll?

A) No, they would not "see" the doll.
B) Yes, they only cannot recognize human body parts.
C) No, they can only recognize their own body parts.
D) Yes, but they would not know what to tell what an arm is.
E) No, they cannot point to a correct body part on command.

Question 31

A very basic spatial ability that is used to determine the relative position of an object is known as .

A) depth perception
B) relativity
C) global positioning
D) object-background determination
E) relative positioning

Question 32

What do cued responses rely on?

A) The colour of a moving object.
B) The relative space between the object and your own body.
C) The perception of information that is external to your body.
D) The familiarity of any particular object (i.e. previous contact with the object).
E) Which field of vision the object lands in.

Question 33

What is finger agnosia often co-occur with?

A) gaze apraxia
B) left-right confusion
C) Gerstmann syndrome
D) anosognosia
E) autopagnosia

Question 34

The position in which a line is oriented in space is known as _________.

A) line positioning
B) line perception
C) line special perception
D) line orientation
E) oriented space

Question 35

What is the term for the disorder in which an individual incorrectly identifies and reduplicates people, place, objects, or even events?

A) reduplicative paramnesia
B) reduplicative atognosia
C) incorrect response atognosia
D) repetitive amnesia
E) reduplicative ability disorder

Question 36

Research shows that when women give directions they typically rely on_________and men typically rely on_________ .

A) graphic communication ; verbal communication
B) relative turns and distances; cardinal directions and landmarks
C) cardinal directions and landmarks; relative turns and distances
D) cardinal directions and distances; relative turns and landmarks
E) relative turns and landmarks; cardinal directions and distances

Question 37

What appears to be a role of the hippocampus?

A) Processing the relative position of an object.
B) Processing short term visuospatial comprehension.
C) Processing memory for places.
D) Processing the ability to name objects.
E) Processing the information sent from the occipital lobes.

Question 38

Which of the following statements regarding place cells is false?

A) Place cells respond in a very precise fashion.
B) When a rat is placed in an unfamiliar environment, none of the place cells respond.
C) Place cells are involved in spatial ability, not spatial memory.
D) Place cells respond selectively to spatial locations.
E) Place cells are found in the hippocampus.

Question 39

If you were to point towards the nearest store while in the classroom, what would that be an example of?

A) personal response
B) position response
C) cued response
D) place response
E) space response

Question 40

Which of the following characteristics of the water-maze is false?

A) To perform well on this task, it is important to have an intact hippocampus.
B) It is used to study spatial ability.
C) To perform well on this task, animals must learn the spatial relationship between objects in the room that are outside of the pool.
D) It involves a hidden platform that the animals must find.
E) It is a circular shaped pool filled with clean water.