Lecture 1

Question 1

What is a neuropsychologist?

Answer 1

A clinician and/or scientist who…
§ Uses neurology, neuroscience, and psychology
§ To understand how behaviors correlate with brain function
§ To assess ‘normal’ and ‘impaired’ cognitive, social, physical, and emotional functioning

Neuropsychology is usually clinical in nature
§ Neuropsychologists are not medical doctors
§ Clinical tasks are usually diagnostic
§ Referrals to specialists may be given for treatments
§ Research tasks may include investigating causes of a disorder, its brain/behavioral/cognitive processes, its diagnostic approaches, the efficacy of treatments (how well they work), etc.

Question 2

Who was Donald Hebb and what is Hebbian theory?

Question 3

What does a neurological examination consist of?

Question 4

What is the Biopsychosocial model for neuropsychological assessment?

Question 5

Explain the differences between Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasia. What is an
aphasia?

Question 6

Define these 4 terms: localization, lateralization, distributed function, and
hierarchical organization

Question 7

How did brain lesions lead to the modern understanding of brain function and
organization?

Question 8

Describe the experiments and case studies that led to the discoveries of localization, lateralization, distributed function, and hierarchical organization

Question 9

What are the 4 lobes and their functions?

Question 10

What are the parts and functions of the limbic system?

Question 11

Where is the cerebellum and what does it do?

Question 12

What is a projection map?

Question 13

What are primary, seconday, and teriary areas in a projection map?

Question 14

According to what principles did Brodmann map the cortex?

Question 15

Why is change an assumption of neuropsychology?