Final Exam Practice Test

1. Final Exam Practice Test Physiological Psychology PSYC.465

2. Question 1 Which of the following is NOT a principle of sensorimotor organization? • The sensorimotor system is hierarchically organized • Motor output is guided by sensory input • Learning changes the nature and locus of sensorimotor control • The sensorimotor system is organized bottom-up

3. Question 2 What is the exception to the rule that “Motor output is guided by sensory input?” • The case of G.O. (the darts champion) • Ballistic movements • Muscle contraction • Slow movements to balance a limb • Both A and B

4. Question 3 The posterior parietal cortex receives input from the ________________. • Primary motor cortex • Secondary motor cortex • Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex • Various sensory systems • Both C and D

5. Question 4 Which structure is at the top of the sensori-motor hierarchy? • Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex • Posterior parietal cortex • Supplementary motor cortex • Premotor cortex • Both A and B

6. Question 5 Which lesion(s) commonly result(s) in contralateral neglect? • Right posterior parietal cortex • Left posterior parietal cortex • Bilateral posterior parietal cortex • Bilateral medial temporal lobectomy • Bilateral premotor cortex

7. Question 6 Which lesion(s) commonly result(s) in constructional apraxia? • Right posterior parietal cortex • Left posterior parietal cortex • Bilateral posterior parietal cortex • Bilateral medial temporal lobectomy • Bilateral premotor cortex

8. Question 7 Which of the following areas of cortex is somatotopically organized? • Primary motor cortex • Secondary motor cortex • Supplementary motor cortex • Premotor cortex • Frontal eye fields

9. Question 8 Which structure is considered to be part of the secondary motor cortex • Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex • Supplementary motor area • Posterior parietal cortex • Precentralgyrus • Postmotor cortex

10. Question 9 According to the classic view, the secondary motor cortex includes the SMA and the _________________. • Frontal eye fields • Ventromedial frontal cortex • Premotor cortex • Posterior parietal cortex • Postmotor cortex

11. Question 10 In general, damage to the posterior parietal cortex can produce a variety of deficits in _______________. • Perception and memory of spatial relationships • Reaching and grasping • Control of eye movements • Attention • All of the above

12. Question 11 More recent evidence from monkeys suggest that the secondary motor cortex includes ___ premotor regions, ___ SMA regions, and ___ newly discovered areas in the cingulategyrus. • 3, 3, 2 • 2, 3, 3 • 2, 2, 3 • 2, 3, 2 • 3, 2, 2

13. Question 12 The motor homunculus represents the __________. • somatotopic organization of M1 • distribution of motor cortex devoted to different body parts • organization of the precentralgyrus • All of the above • Both A and B

14. Question 13 In the experiment by Lawrence and Kuypers, transection of the dorsolateralcorticospinal tract resulted in a lasting impairment in _______________. • Standing, walking and climbing • Moving fingers independently of each other • Grasping objects • Reaching for objects • All of the above

15. Question 14 There are ____ basal ganglia loops that have both closed and open interacting circuits. • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6

16. Question 15 The cerebellum contains _____% of the brains neurons and makes up _____% of the brain’s total mass. • 10, 50 • 50, 10 • 40, 60 • 60, 40 • 30, 70

17. Question 16 Evidence shows that the descending ___________ motor pathways are involved in the control of the distal limbs while the ___________ motor pathways are involved in the control posture and whole body movements. • Dorsolateral, ventromedial • Ventromedial, dorsolateral • Dorsomedial, ventrolateral • Ventrolateral, Dorsomedial • Anterolateral, posteromedial

18. Question 17 ________ muscle fibers are capable of great force but quickly fatigue whereas _________ muscle fibers are involved in sustained contractions for longer durations of time. • Fast, slow • Slow, fast • Antagonist, agonists • Agonists, antagonists • Striated, smooth

19. Question 18 The ________ sensory receptors detect changes in muscle length whereas the _______ detects increases in muscle tension. • Golgi tendon organ, muscle spindle • Muscle spindle, Golgi tendon organ • Golgi spindle, and muscle tendon • Muscle tendons, golgi spindles • Motor pool, motor unit

20. Question 19 The motor_____ innervates individual muscle fibers whereas a motor ______ includes all the motor neurons that innervate a single muscle (including all of its individual muscle fibers). • Pool, unit • Unit, pool • Plate, spindle • Spindle, plate • Extensor, flexor

21. Question 20 The direct descending motor pathways synapse in the _________________. • Basal ganglia • Red nucleus • One of four brainstem nuclei • Cerebellum • spinal cord

22. Question 21 H.M.’s surgery removed structures in the medial part of the _________________. • Temporal lobe, unilaterally • Temporal lobe, bilaterally • Frontal lobe, and some of the parietal lobe • Parietal lobe, unilaterally • Parietal lobe, bilaterally

23. Question 22 H.M. had severe __________ amnesia and mild, or temporally limited __________ amnesia. • Implicit, explicit • Explicit, implicit • retrograde, anterograde • anterograde, retrograde

24. Question 23 Which task is sensitive to object recognition memory in rats and monkeys. • Delayed match to sample • Incomplete pictures test • Delayed nonmatch to sample • Rotary pursuit • Mirror drawing

25. Question 22 H.M. had severe __________ amnesia and mild, or temporally limited __________ amnesia. • Implicit, explicit • Explicit, implicit • retrograde, anterograde • anterograde, retrograde

26. Question 24 R.B.’s brain damage appeared to be restricted to the ______________ subfield of the ___________. • CA3, hippocampus • CA1, hippocampus • Dentate gyrus, amygdala • CA2, rhinal cortex

27. Question 25 Monkeys with hippocampal lesions that damage the rhinal cortex were impaired at _____________________. • Object recognition • Habit formation • Configural learning • Spatial learning • Place memory

28. Question 26 In rats hippocampal lesions damage part of the __________ cortex. • rhinal • entorhinal • parietal • frontal

29. Question 27 Animals given Ischemia followed immediately by a hippocampal lesion were ______________. • Impaired at object recognition • Not impaired at object recognition • Were somewhat impaired on the DNMS • Were severely impaired at DNMS

30. Question 28 Which theory was developed by O’keefe and Nadel? • The hippocampus as a cognitive map • The hippocampus and configural associations • The amygdala in emotional memory • Object recognition of the rhinal cortex

31. Question 29 LTP is thought to critically involve activation of which type of receptor? • Cholinergic muscarinic • Cholinergic nicotinic • Glutamatergickainate • Glutamatergic NMDA

32. Question 30 The hippocampus is most likely involved in _________, while the rhinal cortex is involved in _____________ • Spatial memory, object recognition • object recognition, spatial memory • Implicit memory, semantic memory • Semantic memory, implicit memory

33. Answers • D • B • E • E • A • B • A • B • C • E • C • D • B • B • B • A • A • B • B • E • B • D • C • B • A • C • B • A • D • A