Exam 1

Question 1

What is Neuropsychology?

Answer 1

Study of the brain’s influence on behavior

Question 2

What is Trephination?

Answer 2

When they drill a hole in your head

Question 3

What is the localization theory?

Answer 3

Idea that different parts of your brain do different things

Question 4

Which dude read bumps on your head to predict your personality?

Answer 4

Franz Gall

Question 5

What is the Broca’s area involved with?

Answer 5

Expressive/fluent speech

Question 6

What happens when you damage Wernicke’s Area?

Answer 6

It makes a word salad

Question 7

What is the Theory of Equipotentiality?

Answer 7

The brain all works together

Question 8

What is the Comprehensive Theory?

Answer 8

That the brain is the interplay of both the localization and Equipotentiality theory

Question 9

What connects the Left and Right Hemisphere?

Answer 9

The Corpus Callosum

Question 10

What do the sulci and gyri do?

Answer 10

Maximize the surface area of the brain

Question 11

Which lobe helps control relationships, planning, emotions, speech, and movement?

Answer 11

Frontal

Question 12

Which lobe interprets sensory signals and integrates information?

Answer 12

Parietal

Question 13

Which lobe of the brain processes sound, controls aspects of learning, memory, language, and emotions?

Answer 13

Temporal

Question 14

Which lobe of the brain processes visual signals?

Answer 14

Occipital

Question 15

Which side of the brain uses logic, is detail oriented, and is in charge of words and language?

Answer 15

The Left Brain

Question 16

Which side of the brain uses feeling, is “Big Picture” oriented, and uses imagination?

Answer 16

The Right Brain

Question 17

Generally, who is better at language?

Answer 17

Women

Question 18

Generally, who is better at spatial rotations and perception?

Answer 18

Men

Question 19

What is Transduction?

Answer 19

The translation of one form of energy to another

Question 20

What are the two sensory fields of the Cortex?

Answer 20

Primary and Secondary

Question 21

What does the Primary Area of the cortex do?

Answer 21

Pick up the basics, like lines and color

Question 22

What does the Secondary Area of the Cortex do?

Answer 22

Puts the picture together and makes sense of it

Question 23

What are the two parts of the Visual system?

Answer 23

Rods and Cones

Question 24

Which parts of the Visual System is more numerous?

Answer 24

Rods

Question 25

Which part of the Visual System is sensitive in low light?

Answer 25

Rods

Question 26

Which part of the Visual System is used for Bright Light?

Answer 26

Cones

Question 27

In the Auditory System, sound waves are received by what?

Answer 27

Hair Cells

Question 28

What are the Three Somatosensory System Receptors?

Answer 28

Exteroceptive, Proprioceptive, and Interoceptive

Question 29

Where are the Exteroceptives located?

Answer 29

On you skin

Question 30

What are the Three Exteroceptives?

Answer 30

1. Mechanical (Touch) 2. Thermoreceptors (Temperature) 3. Nocioreceptors (Pain/Pressure)

Question 31

Where are proprioceptives?

Answer 31

In the Joints

Question 32

What doe Proprioceptives do?

Answer 32

Tell you where your body is in space

Question 33

What does Interoceptives do?

Answer 33

Tells you your body's internal state

Question 34

What does sensation do?

Answer 34

Make sense of the information coming

Question 35

What is Synesthesia?

Answer 35

People who hear in color and identify smells by sound

Question 36

What are the two broad categories of Sensory Distortions?

Answer 36

1. Complete loss of sensory process | 2. Partial loss of some sensory process

Question 37

Deafness, Blindness, and Colorblindness are examples of what?

Answer 37

Complete loss of sensory process

Question 38

Agnosias (Without Knowledge) is an example of?

Answer 38

Partial Loss of some sensory process

Question 39

What controls motor functioning?

Answer 39

The Cerebral Cortex

Question 40

Which part of the brain is important for posture and balance?

Answer 40

The Cerebellum

Question 41

What does the Cerebellum integrate?

Answer 41

Motor and sensory information

Question 42

What does Akinesia mean?

Answer 42

Without movement

Question 43

What does Bradykinesia mean?

Answer 43

Slowness of Movement

Question 44

What does Hyperkinesia mean?

Answer 44

Extra Movement

Question 45

What is Apraxia?

Answer 45

Inability to perform skilled, purposeful movement

Question 46

What is Limb-Kinetic Apraxia?

Answer 46

Clumsiness with the body

Question 47

What is Ideomotor Apraxia?

Answer 47

When the knows the action but they can’t quite do it

Question 48

What is Conceptual Apraxia?

Answer 48

When you lose the concept of how to do something

Question 49

What is Dissociation Apraxia?

Answer 49

When the you have the general idea of what's happening but cannot put it in sequence