Neuropsychology Test Bank
Course Introduction
Neuropsychology is an interdisciplinary field that explores the complex relationship between the brain and behavior, examining how brain structure and function influence cognitive processes, emotions, and actions. The course covers fundamental topics such as the organization of the nervous system, neuroanatomy, neurophysiological assessment techniques, and the impact of brain injuries and neurological disorders on memory, language, perception, and executive functions. Through a combination of theoretical understanding and case studies, students will gain insight into how neuropsychological research informs clinical practice, rehabilitation, and our broader understanding of human behavior.
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Biological Psychology 13th Edition by
James W. Kalat
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Chapter 1: Nerve Cells and Nerve Impulses
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Q1) What causes potassium ions to leave the axon just after the peak of the action potential?
A) A continuing concentration gradient and the opening of the potassium gates
B) An increase in the concentration gradient across the membrane
C) An increased tendency of the sodium-potassium pump to push potassium out
D) Binding of potassium ions to proteins that leave at this time
Answer: A
Q2) Neurons receive information and transmit it to other cells.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) An efferent axon carries information away from a structure.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Increasing the electrical gradient for potassium will reduce the tendency for potassium ions to exit the neuron.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Synapses
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Q1) Karissa is in the lab working and was able to produce a reflexive response by stimulating several different locations all at one time. She successfully demonstrated ______ summation.
A) spatial
B) reflexive
C) temporal
D) neuronal
Answer: A
Q2) Elwood is studying the difference between EPSPs and IPSPs. What should he write in his notes?
Answer: EPSP stands for excitatory postsynaptic potential and is a brief depolarization of the neuron. IPSPS stands for inhibitory postsynaptic potential and is a brief hyperpolarization of the neuron. Both EPSPs and IPSPs are decremental. However, added together, enough EPSPs can trigger an action potential if the result is that the neuron reaches threshold.
Q3) At synapses, the cell that receives the message is called the presynaptic neuron.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Anatomy and Research Methods
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Q1) Where would you find the dorsal root ganglia?
A) At the base of the brain
B) In the gray matter of the spinal cord
C) In the white matter of the spinal cord
D) Outside, but near, the spinal cord
Answer: D
Q2) Rudy has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He will have damage to his ____ neurons in the _______.
A) serotonin; substantia nigra
B) dopamine; substantia nigra
C) norepinephrine; cerebellum
D) dopamine; cerebellum
Answer: B
Q3) Explain why phrenology is not a valid method for understanding the brain and behavior.
Answer: Phrenology is invalid for many reasons. One problem is that skull shape does not match brain anatomy. The skull is thicker in some places than others and thicker in some people than others. Another problem is that they based many conclusions on small numbers of people who apparently shared some personality aspect and a similar bump on the skull.
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Chapter 4: Genetics, Evolution, Development, and Plasticity
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Q1) The fluid-filled cavity of the developing neural tube becomes the ____.
A) forebrain
B) midbrain
C) spinal cord
D) ventricular system
Q2) A cortical cell originally responded to stimulation of the middle finger. After amputation of that finger, it begins responding to the second and fourth fingers. Which action most likely accounts for this?
A) Synaptic reorganization
B) Growth of completely new axons
C) Altered pattern of blood vessels in the brain
D) A psychotic reaction
Q3) Why is it that every axon in an adult mammal has a target cell (muscle cell or other neuron) with which it makes synaptic contact?
A) Each target cell causes the growth of a neuron and its axon.
B) After formation, axons release a chemical that causes a target cell to form.
C) Axons that fail to find a target cell die.
D) An axon will make contact with any kind of cell and adjust its function as necessary.
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Chapter 5: Vision
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Q1) Professor Hancock is giving a lecture about peripheral vision. Which is the most likely to say?
A) It is very sensitive to detail.
B) It is easier to recognize single objects in the periphery that are not surrounded by other objects.
C) It is not very sensitive to light.
D) It is most sensitive to color, which helps to differentiate multiple objects clearly.
Q2) As a human, Lino is really good at detecting motion. This is because of his _____.
A) magnocellular neurons in the periphery
B) parvocellular neurons tightly packed in the periphery
C) no cones in the periphery
D) the strength of the eye muscles
Q3) Johannes Müller held that whatever excites a particular nerve establishes a special kind of energy unique to that nerve.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is prosopagnosia?
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Chapter 6: Other Sensory Systems
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Q1) Along each strip of somatosensory cortex, different subareas respond to ____.
A) different types of receptors
B) different areas of the body
C) different parts of the cortex
D) different types of transmitters
Q2) According to the frequency theory, the ____.
A) tectorial membrane vibrates in synchrony with the auditory nerve
B) auditory nerve is responsible for perception of sound but not loudness
C) basilar membrane vibrates in synchrony with a sound, producing action potentials at the same frequency
D) basilar membrane is tuned to a specific frequency and vibrates whenever that frequency is present
Q3) Perception of a low tone is to ____ as perception of a high tone is to ____.
A) volley principle; frequency theory
B) frequency theory; place theory
C) place theory; volley principle
D) gate theory; frequency theory
Q4) Describe in detail one of the ways of relieving pain.
Q5) How do hurt feelings resemble physical pain?
Q6) Explain the difference between middle-ear and inner-ear deafness.
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Chapter 7: Movement
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Q1) Moving a leg or arm back and forth requires opposing sets of muscles called ____.
A) Extensor muscles
B) Flexor muscles
C) Cardiac muscles
D) Antagonistic muscles
Q2) Who is most likely to have trouble performing the antisaccade task.
A) Linwood who is 5 years old.
B) Evie who is 20 years old.
C) Lael who is 35 years old.
D) Devon who is 50 years old.
Q3) A boxer's ability to sense the position of his arm and hand before planning a punch is dependent on the sense of ____.
A) proprioception
B) somatosensation
C) pain
D) vision
Q4) In skeletal muscles, every axon releases dopamine.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Wakefulness and Sleep
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Q1) Which claim is most consistent with the evolutionary perspective of sleep?
A) The function of sleep is similar to that of hibernation.
B) More highly evolved species, such as humans, need more sleep than other species.
C) During sleep, we relive the experiences of past generations.
D) Sleep enables the body to repair and restore itself to promote survival.
Q2) A recent hypothesis proposed that the role of REM is ____.
A) to shake the eyeballs back and forth in order to get sufficient oxygen to the corneas of the eyes
B) to shake the eyeballs back and forth so the individual moves from REM to NREM
C) no different than the role of NREM
D) to bring to the surface the individual's unconscious wishes
Q3) Research on circadian rhythms has shown that one of the best ways to increase the alertness and efficiency of workers on night shifts is to ____.
A) expose them to bright lights while they work
B) keep the environmental temperature constant from night to day
C) have them eat a big meal before going to sleep
D) allow them to catnap
Q4) Describe brain function during REM sleep.
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Chapter 9: Internal Regulation
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Q1) Which event would lead to eating a larger than normal meal?
A) Increasing leptin levels
B) Decreasing NPY levels
C) Increasing NPY levels
D) Damaging the lateral hypothalamus
Q2) Damage to the ventromedial hypothalamus leads to eating ____.
A) the same, but drinking less than normal amounts
B) the same large amount each meal, regardless of the taste
C) less
D) normal-sized meals, but eating them more frequently
Q3) The tendency of water to flow across a semipermeable membrane from the area of low solute concentration to the area of higher concentration is termed ____.
A) hypovolemic pressure
B) hypovolemic thirst
C) osmotic pressure
D) OVLT
Q4) Rima has syndromal obesity whereas Ezra has monogenic obesity. What is the difference for these two individuals?
Q5) Describe how bulimia nervosa resembles drug addiction.
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Chapter 10: Reproductive Behaviors
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Q1) If Wilber was going to choose his female mate strictly by evolutionary findings, he would use ____ as the most important criteria.
A) compatible genes
B) likelihood of being a good provider
C) youthfulness
D) intelligence
Q2) At this point, conclusions of studies on the evolutionary interpretations of mating behavior suggest that these behaviors are ____.
A) primarily inherited
B) primarily learned from cultural influence
C) used to justify our behaviors
D) lacking sufficient scientific studies to allow us to draw a conclusion about them
Q3) Describe some of the evidence that brain anatomy may differ as a function of sexual orientation.
Q4) Wonda (a female) produces estrogens, while Dalton (a male) does not.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the organizing effects of sex hormones and give specific examples.
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Chapter 11: Emotional Behaviors
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Q1) According to one hypothesis, if serotonin is released during aggressive behavior, then individuals with low serotonin release are more aggressive because of ____.
A) increased depression
B) decreased serotonin synthesis
C) increased serotonin receptor sensitivity
D) decreased serotonin receptor sensitivity
Q2) Under what circumstances do the criminal behaviors of monozygotic twins resemble each other more than dizygotic twins?
A) When the monozygotic twins have been raised apart
B) When the dizygotic twins have been raised together
C) In adulthood
D) In childhood
Q3) The classical illness behaviors such as fever, sleepiness, and lack of appetite are caused by ____.
A) decreased brain activity
B) toxins released by pathogens
C) the immune system's production of cytokines
D) antibody production
Q4) Briefly describe the James-Lange Theory of Emotion.
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Chapter 12: Learning, Memory, and Intelligence
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Q1) After LTP is established, NMDA receptors are not required to maintain it.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A rat is placed in a radial maze in which it has already been trained for many trials. As compared to rats without damage to their hippocampus, rats with damage are more likely to ____.
A) enter an alley at random
B) fail to eat the food they find
C) enter one of the correct alleys repeatedly
D) enter an alley that is never correct
Q3) Humans differ from chimpanzees in two genes responsible for ______ transport.
A) glucose
B) dopamine
C) serotonin
D) sodium
Q4) H.M. was able to learn and remember ____.
A) people's names
B) how to find his way to a new residence
C) skills like mazes and puzzles
D) events in recent history
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Chapter 13: Cognitive Functions
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Q1) Wernicke discovered that damage to the ____ cortex produced language impairment.
A) right temporal
B) left temporal
C) right frontal
D) left frontal
Q2) A stroke patient speaks in short, inarticulate but meaningful phrases such as "Weather hot" and "Dog bite man." This person is probably suffering from ____.
A) Broca's aphasia
B) Wernicke's aphasia
C) Williams syndrome
D) apraxia
Q3) Oxytocin helps ____.
A) everyone with recognizing only fairly easy expressions
B) people who have trouble recognizing expressions, helping them mainly with fairly easy expressions
C) people who have trouble recognizing expressions, helping them mainly with fairly difficult expressions
D) everyone with recognizing fairly difficult expressions
Q4) Discuss the three forms of monism
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) The problems that schizophrenics have with memory and attention are most likely related to an increased tendency of having brain damage in the ____.
A) cerebellum
B) prefrontal cortex
C) occipital cortex
D) medulla
Q2) Autism spectrum disorder encompasses both autism and what used to be called Asperger's syndrome.
A)True
B)False
Q3) As compared to non-depressed people, depressed individuals ____.
A) have greater unpleasant events
B) react worse to unpleasant events
C) have fewer pleasant experiences
D) react more to pleasant experiences
Q4) Medications like Antabuse combat alcohol abuse by blocking opiate receptors and thereby decrease the pleasure from alcohol.
A)True
B)False
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