Neuropsychology Study Guide Questions
Course Introduction
Neuropsychology is the scientific study of the relationship between brain function and behavior. This course explores how injury, disease, or developmental anomalies of the nervous system affect cognitive processes such as memory, language, perception, attention, and executive functioning. Students will examine the methods used to assess brain function, including neuroimaging and neuropsychological tests, and learn about various neurological disorders and their psychological manifestations. Emphasis is placed on how neuropsychological research informs clinical practice, rehabilitation, and our understanding of the biological bases of mental processes and behavior.
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Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology 2nd Edition by Ronald T. Kellogg
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Which physiological method of studying the brain provides the best temporal resolution
A)fMRI
B)PET
C)EEG-ERP
D)All of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following emphasize study of errors in children's speech as it naturally occurs in the environment in the interdisciplinary area of cognitive science?
A)philosophers
B)linguists
C)AI researchers
D)psychologists
Answer: B
Q3) In order to transfer input into sensory store, one needs to recognize patterns.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Perception
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Q1) The letter D would be more readily recognized in a word than by itself.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Experiments with speech spectograms show that
A)speech is continuous between words.
B)speech shows invariant features.
C)all languages use all phonemes.
D)there is a one to one mapping between phonemes and segments of the speech stream.
Answer: A
Q3) _____________________agnosia refers to a failure of pattern recognition caused by an inability to categorize objects at a functional semantic level of analysis.
A)apperceptive
B)associative
C)analogical
D)conceptually driven
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Attention
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Q1) When two tasks both require a speeded response to two separate stimuli, the second response is slowed as the second stimulus is presented closer in time to the first stimulus.This phenomenon is related to
A)the orienting network
B)the central bottleneck
C)the blind spot
D)subliminal perception
Answer: B
Q2) The attentuation theory can explain why you notice your name but not other words in an unattended channel.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The early selection model of attention assumes that a filter operated on A)sensory and semantic features
B)sensory features
C)semantic features
D)iconic features
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Memory Systems
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Q1) Suppose you learn list A and then list B.A test shows that you have forgotten items on list A.This illustrates
A)decay
B)consolidation
C)proactive interference
D)retroactive interference
Q2) The characteristics that best describe short-term memory are
A)large capacity and long duration
B)small capacity and long duration
C)large capacity and short duration
D)small capacity and short duration
Q3) Which memory system seems to have an unlimited capacity?
A)sensory
B)short-term
C)long-term
D)iconic
Q4) People who suffer from amnesia exhibit the effects of priming like normal individuals.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Remembering Events
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Q1) Whole report results in greater recall than partial report in sensory memory experiments.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Retrieval mode--the attempt to remember a past episode--activates regions in the
A)left frontal regions
B)right frontal regions
C)left parietal regions
D)right parietal regions
Q3) How do mnemonics improve memory?
A)by eliminating the need to pay attention
B)by making meaningless material more meaningful
C)by preventing decay of the memory trace
D)by reducing the tendency to over organize
Q4) Increasing cumulative recall with repeated retrieval attempts is called
A)hypnotic TOT
B)retrieval specificity
C)cumulative amnesia
D)hypermnesia
Q5) List five factors that affect memory encoding.
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Chapter 6: Memory Distortions
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Q1) Memory distortions can arise from
A)reconstructive retrieval
B)flawed encoding
C)failure to attribute mental experience to the proper source
D)all of the above
Q2) A delusional false memory
A)is similar to a confabulation
B)may originate from sources like tabloids and television
C)is caused by lesions in the pre-frontal cortical regions
D)both a and b
Q3) Combining features of different events into a unified memory is called
A)integration
B)selection
C)leveling
D)interpretation
Q4) Which of the following is false regarding comprehension and memory of a story?
A)we primarily remember the details of the story
B)we add some details to the story
C)we delete some details from the story
D)we primarily remember the gist of the story
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Chapter 7: Imagery and Knowledge Representation
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Q1) Object concepts summarize all of the following characteristics except
A)the dimensions of variations among instances of a concept
B)the range of acceptable variation
C)the number of acceptable inferences
D)the central tendency or prototype
Q2) A frame and a script are both types of
A)formal concepts
B)natural concepts
C)schemas
D)templates
Q3) Robins have wings; blue birds have wings; therefore, all birds have wings.This is a strong inductive argument because:
A)blue birds are prototypes
B)robins and blue birds share many features in common
C)birds is a superordinate category
D)birds is a rule-governed concept
Q4) The functional equivalence hypothesis asserts that imagery is analogous to perception.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Language
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Q1) Taking into account the time needed to fixate on letters, recognize words, and build local and global structures in working memory, the average reading time is about
A)100-150 words per minute
B)250-300 words per minute
C)400-450 words per minute
D)500-550 words per minute
Q2) Explain the concept of a universal grammar and discuss two types of evidence of its existence.
Q3) Language exists only as an external representation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The psychologist slept fitfully, dreaming new ideas.This sentence is
A)grammatical but semantically meaningless
B)ungrammatical but pragmatically useful
C)semantically meaningful but pragmatically useless
D)none of the above
Q5) Describe the evidence both for an against the hypothesis that chimpanzees can learn human language.
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Chapter 9: Problem Solving
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Q1) Two problems are considered isomorphic when
A)they both require creative solutions
B)they both can be solved with means-end analysis
C)they both share a similar problem representation
D)they both require algorithms to solve
Q2) In chess, checkmate defines the _______ of the problem space.
A)initial state
B)operator
C)means-end
D)goal state
Q3) The king can move one space in any direction.This defines a(n)_______ in the problem space of chess.
A)goal
B)means-end
C)operator
D)heuristic
Q4) 10-year-old children competing in a chess tournament performed worse on a digit-span test than adults who play little chess.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Reasoning and Decision Making
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Q1) Decisions made under uncertainty are the most realistic and common.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning.
Q3) All syllogisms can have a valid conclusion based on the given premises.
A)True
B)False
Q4) If you interpret "All A are C" to imply that "All C are A," then you are guilty of
A)partial combination
B)response bias
C)a slip of the tongue
D)premise conversion
Q5) People have a strong tendency to seek evidence that upholds their beliefs.This is called
A)undirected thinking
B)confirmation bias
C)functional fixedness
D)prejudice
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