Cognitive Functions

Question 1

The left and right hemispheres exchange
information through a set of axon which is this.

Answer 1

Corpus Callosum

Question 2

Connects skin receptors and muscles mainly in
the right side of the body

Answer 2

Left hemisphere

Question 3

Connects to sensory receptors and muscles
mainly on the left side.
- More adept than the left at comprehending
spatial relationships.
- More responsive to emotional stimuli

Answer 3

Right Hemisphere

Question 4

a. Impaired language production
b. Problems in comprehending grammatical words
and devices

Answer 4

Broca’s Aphasia (non fluent)

Question 5

Characterized by poor language comprehension
and impaired ability to remember the names of
objects.
- It is also known as fluent aphasia because the
person can still speak smoothly.

Answer 5

WERNICKE’S APHASIA (FLUENT APHASIA)
- Carl Wernicke (1874)

Question 6

• A specific impairment of reading in someone
  with adequate vision, motivation, cognitive
  skills, and educational opportunity. Many studies have reported abnormalities in
  the left hemisphere for people with

Answer 6

Dyslexia

Question 7

He proposed that mind and brain interact at a
single point in space, which he suggested was
the pineal gland, the smallest unpaired
structure he could find in the brain.
- With the first explicit defense of dualism, he
hardly originated the idea.

Answer 7

Descartes

Question 8

The belief in a nonmaterial mind that exists
separately from the body —conflicts with the
conservation of matter and energy

Answer 8

Dualism

Question 9

view that mental
processes and certain kinds of brain
processes are the same thing, just described
in different terms.

Answer 9

Identity Position

Question 10

distinguish between what he calls the easy
problems and the hard problems of
consciousness.

Answer 10

David Chalmers 1995

Question 11

distinguish between what he calls the easy
problems and the hard problems of
consciousness.

Answer 11

David Chalmers 1995

Question 12

pertains to such questions as
the difference between wakefulness and sleep
and what brain activity occurs during
consciousness.

Answer 12

Easy problems

Question 13

concerns why consciousness
exists at all.

Answer 13

Hard problems

Question 14

a phenomenon of visual perception in which an
image presented to one eye is suppressed by a
flash of another image presented to the other
eye

Answer 14

Flash Suppression

Question 15

a phenomenon of visual perception in which
perception alternates between different images
presented to each eye

Answer 15

Binocular Rivalry

Question 16

refers to the minimum level above which stimuli
enter our awareness.

Answer 16

Threshold of consciousness

Question 17

A test that requires individuals to view a list of
words printed in different color than the word’s
meaning

Answer 17

Stroop Test

Question 18

TWO AREAS OF THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX

Answer 18

1. Ventromedial Prefrontal cortex
2. Orbito frontal cortex

Question 19

charitable emotion to help others without
expecting anything in return.

Answer 19

Altruism

Question 20

states that feelings of empathy for another
person produce an altruistic motivation to
increase the person’s welfare.

Answer 20

Empathy altruism hypothesis