Neuroscience Exam Bank
Course Introduction
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system, encompassing the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system. This course provides an in-depth exploration of how neural circuits and individual neurons form the basis for cognition, behavior, sensation, movement, and emotion. Students will gain foundational knowledge of neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neurotransmitter function, and the cellular mechanisms underlying brain processes, as well as current advances in research and technology in the field. Applications of neuroscience in medicine, psychology, and artificial intelligence are also discussed, offering a comprehensive introduction to the central role of the nervous system in health and disease.
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Sensation and Perception 2nd Edition by Bennett L. Schwartz
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Chapter 1: What Is Perception
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Q1) In the Aristotle illusion, two crossed fingers are touched by a pencil.Participants observe that ______.
A)two points are perceived instead of one
B)the pencil feels larger than it is
C)the two touches cancel each other out
D)the touch is felt only on the bottom finger
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following is the most likely application of sensation and perception research?
A)developing a more efficient car engine
B)inventing a safer self-driving car
C)creating an alternative to gasoline
D)building more fuel-efficient vehicles
Answer: B
Q3) How many sensory systems do humans have?
A)1-2
B)5-6
C)7-12
D)15-20
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) In two-point thresholds across the skin, one measures ______.
A)the minimum distance at which two touches are perceived as two touches and not one
B)the maximum distance at which two touches are perceived as two touches and not one
C)the minimum distance at which one touch is perceived as two touches
D)only the maximum distance for touches in the most sensitive areas of the skin
Answer: A
Q2) Karwan is a participant in a psychophysical experiment on visual detection.He is shown a mix of near-threshold stimuli with stimulus-absent catch trials.When Karwan indicates that he did not see a light that was actually present, he is making a ______.
A)hit
B)correction rejection
C)miss
D)false alarm
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Visual System: The Eye
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Q1) Which term describes a receptive field whose center responds in a way opposite to how the rest of the receptive field responds?
A)annular receptive field
B)oppositional receptive field
C)center-surround receptive field
D)off-center receptive field
Answer: C
Q2) The combination of positive signals coming from bipolar cells and inhibition coming from horizontal cells determines the strength of a signal to a retinal ganglion cell.What does this result in?
A)center-surround orientation
B)inhibitory excitation
C)dark adaptation
D)lateral inhibition
Answer: D
Q3) Dogs do not perceive the world in color.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Visual System: The Brain
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Q1) Which of the following is a common result of scotoma?
A)glaucoma
B)a blind spot
C)blindsight
D)object agnosia
Q2) Explain why scientists do not believe the term "blindsight" is a paradox.
Q3) The koniocellular layers of the LGN receive input from ______ retinal ganglion cells.
A)bistratified
B)parasol
C)midget
D)giant
Q4) Sudden eye movements used to look from one object to another are known as ______.
A)saccades
B)smooth-pursuit movements
C)fixation
D)nonconscious movements
Q5) Describe the location and anatomy of the optic chiasm.
Q6) Explain object agnosia in terms of dorsal and ventral system function.
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Chapter 5: Object Perception
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Q1) Looser and Wheatley (2010) compared the responses of human brains to real faces and doll faces.What did they find?
A)The FFA initially responded to both real and doll faces.
B)The FFA did not respond to the doll faces.
C)The FFA responded similarly to both stimuli.
D)The doll faces caused an exaggerated response in the FFA.
Q2) As the number of objects searched for increases, the likelihood of finding one of those objects decreases.This is known as ______.
A)dual-target cost
B)detection paradox
C)deterrence effect
D)object agnosia
Q3) Geons are associated with recognition by components.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is one way that the environment can make object perception more challenging? Use an example to illustrate your answer.
Q5) Explain why researchers believe that humans are both drawn to and repelled by dolls.
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Chapter 6: Color Perception
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Q1) Additive color mixing is used in which of the following technologies?
A)designing paints for interior decor
B)recreating color vision for color-deficient individuals
C)simulating a full range of colors on a smart phone screen
D)creating fabric dyes for clothing
Q2) What theory proposes that all colors on the color circle can be represented by the following pairs of opposing mechanisms: blue-yellow, red-green, and black-white?
A)opponent-process theory of color vision
B)competitive theory of color vision
C)Hering-Osbourne theory of color vision
D)trichromatic theory of color vision
Q3) When we use color names such as red, orange, green, and indigo, we are referring to
A)saturation
B)intensity
C)hue
D)brightness
Q4) Explain how and why color perception can change as adults age.
Q5) Define color constancy, and give an example that demonstrates the concept.
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Chapter 7: Depth and Size Perception
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Q1) As Sonya moves forward in a field, the cow in front of her appears larger.Sonya is using a motion depth cue called ______.
A)motion parallax
B)motion disparity
C)linear intervention
D)optic flow
Q2) Veronica appears to be holding up a needle next to a distant tree, which seems to be the same size as the needle.This example shows the effect of ______.
A)size constancy
B)size-distance invariance
C)visual angles
D)the Ponzo illusion
Q3) The moon illusion is considered a size illusion because the moon is a huge object but we see it as an object about the size of a fingernail.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the difference between motion parallax and optic flow?
Q5) Explain how vergence relates to the distance of objects.
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Chapter 8: Movement and Action
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Q1) Colby, Duhamel, and Goldberg (1996) performed some interesting experiments on the role of the lateral intraparietal (LIP) area using single-cell recording with rhesus monkeys.They found that ______.
A)monkeys with lesioned LIP areas did not perceive biological motion
B)the LIP area of the parietal lobe is involved with both the anticipation of the eye movement and the eye movement itself
C)the LIP area registers optic flow, but does not control movements in the direction of that flow
D)the LIP area responded most strongly when monkeys viewed complex motion moving either directly toward or directly away from them
Q2) We have lower motion thresholds in the ______ than in the ______.
A)periphery; fovea
B)macula; fundus
C)iris; lateral geniculate nucleus
D)visual cortex; occipital lobe
Q3) Describe how motion-sensitive neurons account for speed and direction.
Q4) What is an affordance? Give three examples.
Q5) Explain the two types of apparent motion.Give an example for each type.
Q6) How do people infer form from the point-light walker display?
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Chapter 9: Visual Attention
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Q1) Beck, Muggleton, Walsh, and Lavie (2006) used transcranial magnetic stimulation to examine change blindness.They tried various combinations of inhibiting the parietal lobes of participants while those participants were doing a change-blindness task.They found that ______.
A)interrupting the function of the left parietal lobe increased change blindness
B)activation of both the right and left parietal lobe decreased change blindness
C)activation of both the right and left parietal lobe increased change blindness
D)interrupting the function of the right parietal lobe increased change blindness
Q2) Select all that apply.A patient with hemifield neglect was studied by Bisiach and Luzzatti (1978).They tested him on both perception and imagery tasks.They found that ______.
A)when asked to imagine himself walking from north to south in his native city, the patient described the sites only on the west side (his right)
B)when asked to imagine himself walking from south to north, the patient described the sites only on the east side (now on his right)
C)the patient showed neglect for the left side of his visual images
D)the patient showed neglect for the right side of his visual images
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Chapter 10: The Auditory System
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Q1) Vladislav is completely deaf.To hear people's voice, he should ______.
A)have a ossicles implant placed in his ear
B)have a cochlear implant placed in his ear
C)attach a digital hearing aid to his ear
D)attach an analog hearing aid to his ear
Q2) The subjective experience of sound that is most closely associated with the frequency of a sound stimulus, related to the experience of whether the sound is high or low, is known as ______.
A)frequency
B)timbre
C)tuning
D)pitch
Q3) Harmonics are the higher frequencies present in a complex sound that are integer multiples of the fundamental frequency.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the difference between amplitude and frequency? Give an example for each.
Q5) Describe the parts of the middle ear and how they work together.
Q6) How do the parts of a cochlear implant work together.
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Chapter 11: The Auditory Brain and Sound Localization
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Q1) A structure in the brain stem that receives input from inner hair cells is known as the
A)inferior colliculus
B)superior colliculus
C)cochlear nucleus
D)inferotemporal cortex
Q2) What is the term for the area of the auditory cortex, consisting of the primary auditory cortex, the rostral core, and the rostrotemporal core?
A)the superior olivary complex
B)the parabelt region
C)the belt parkway
D)the auditory core region
Q3) A person hears a whistling sound and a rhythmic thumping sound coming from the same point in space and infers that a train must be coming through.This process is known as ______ segregation.
A)temporal
B)spatial
C)spectral
D)acoustic
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Chapter 12: Speech Perception
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Q1) In the motor theory of speech perception, it is thought that ______.
A)unless one's own speech apparatus is engaged, it is impossible to understand the speech of others
B)areas in the premotor cortex are necessary for speech perception
C)inferring sound from the movements of the speaker's mouth is the core of the speech perception system
D)speech perception relies on the same processes as do other forms of auditory perception
Q2) The developmental process whereby regularly experienced phonemes are homed in on, with simultaneous diminishing of the ability to discriminate unfamiliar phonemes, is known as ______.
A)perceptual narrowing
B)developmental aphasia
C)phonemic learning
D)categorical perception
Q3) Vowels are speech sounds made with restricted airflow, whereas consonants are speech sounds made with unrestricted airflow.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Music Perception
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Q1) Ivan wants to create a composition for his metal band that makes listeners feel a sense that something is wrong by making his notes sound as though they really do not fit together.He is creating ______.
A)consonance
B)assonance
C)divergence
D)dissonance
Q2) A flute and a piano are both playing a note with a fundamental frequency of 1138 Hz.Why do the two instruments sound different?
A)The two notes differ slightly in perceived frequency.
B)The dynamics differ between the two instruments.
C)Each instrument has a different pattern of higher harmonics.
D)Pianos play an octave lower than other instruments.
Q3) In major scales, every step is one semitone.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the difficulties that affect both cochlear implant and hearing aid users who wish to enjoy music.
Q5) Describe the relationship between pitch and frequency.
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Chapter 14: Touch and Pain
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Q1) A marathon runner is nearing the end of a race when her body starts to produce endogenous opioids.These chemicals will ______.
A)generate muscle spasms
B)reduce fatigue and pain
C)induce vomiting
D)cause shortness of breath
Q2) Muscle spindles are receptors in the tendons that measure the force of a muscle's contraction.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A model that allows for top-down control of the pain signal coming up the spinal cord is known as the ______ theory of pain.
A)endogenous
B)lateral root
C)gate control
D)nociceptive
Q4) Dirk is in the woods on a dark night without a flashlight.He needs to use a specific tool mixed in with a dozen other items in his backpack.Explain how haptic perception can apply to Dirk's situation.
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Chapter 15: Olfaction and Taste
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Q1) The regeneration of olfactory receptor neurons can compensate for damage to the cribriform plate and restore a lost sense of smell.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The primary angulate core zone is the part of the temporal lobe that serves as the primary taste cortex.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following examples demonstrates a supertaster?
A)Rhea eats only bitter vegetables and beverages.
B)Ella does not prefer bitter foods, but she has no problem eating them.
C)Saori has never enjoyed or even been able to eat bitter foods.
D)Ed loves to eat foods many people consider to be too bitter.
Q4) Which of these is considered a basic taste?
A)stale
B)bland
C)salty
D)spicy
Q5) Briefly describe how experience of flavor and taste differ.
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