Quiz Questions - Week 1

Question 1

Phrenologists believed that the contour of the skull could provide valuable information about an individual’s cognitive capacities and personality traits. This approach was based on the assumption that:

Answer 1

……skull protrusions are caused by disproportionate development of the brain areas beneath them, which are responsible for different specific functions.

Question 2

Which scientists are often credited with the emergence of the discipline of Cognitive Neuroscience?

Answer 2

Gazzaniga and Miller

Question 3

Wernicke is to ________ as Broca is to ________.

Answer 3

understanding speech; speaking

Question 4

The work by Penfield supported the idea that behaviors are localized to specific brain regions by showing that:

Answer 4

Stimulating specific regions of the human frontal and parietal cortex led to motor actions or sensations, respectively, in specific parts of the body

Question 5

All of the following contributed the emergence of the field of cognitive psychology in the second half of the 20th century EXCEPT

• new developments in and increased use of computer technology.
• Piaget’s work showing that predictable (innate) sequence of mental constructs or cognitive abilities that emerge during development.
• Chomsky’s work arguing that behaviorist theories cannot explain language acquisition.
• a philosophical shift in the field toward empiricism and associationism.

Answer 5

a philosophical shift in the field toward empiricism and associationism.

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT a discipline that laid the foundation for the development of neuroscience in the 1960s?

• engineering
• biology
• physiology
• pharmacology

Answer 6

Engineering

Question 7

One reason that early research on specific human cognitive capacities and the brain areas that are responsible for them developed rather slowly before the 20th century is that:

Answer 7

most early investigators were limited to postmortem studies to localize lesions.

Question 8

Which statement(s) are TRUE concerning Leonardo DaVinci’s ideas concerning the relationship between the brain and cognitive functions such as perception, reason and memory:

• The heart is the seat of cognition
• The cortex controls cognitive behaviors.
• The cerebellum is critical for cognition.
• The ventricles and fluids in the brain underlie perception, reason and memory

Answer 8

The ventricles and fluids in the brain underlie perception, reason and memory