Chapter 15 Quiz Flashcards
_____ is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand how the brain makes decisions.
Neuroeconomics
The _____ plays a role in directing attention to the eyes to identify facial expressions.
amygdala
The mind’s level of responsiveness to impressions made by the senses is called ________
consciousness
_____ _______ provide the basis for cognition; _____ _____act as computational units.
Cell assemblies; individual neurons
According to Donald Hebb, _____ is a term for innate intellectual potential, which is highly heritable and cannot be measured directly.
intelligence A
When investigating recovery of function from brain injury, _____ animals showed a greater number of dendrites and greater numbers of dendritic spines.
ovariectomized
As stated in the text, knowledge of what things are is _____; knowledge of how to grasp the object is _____.
temporale; parietal
When considering movement, what deficits in movement occur when there is damage to the right hemisphere?
Difficulties occur in thinking about and making spatially guided movements.
_____ ______ indicates that the two sides of the brain have different responsibilities.
cerebral asymmetry
What are 3 examples of physiological constructs?
emotion, language, and memory (NOT movement)
_____ _____ is a form of thinking that searches for a single answer to a question.
convergent thinking
Attending to specific parts of the sensory world is a property of ___ ____
single neurons
Which of the following areas of the brain has NOT been implicated in understanding oneself? A) R lat. prefrontal cortex B) medial prefrontal regions C) lateral parietal cortex D) medial preoptic area
medial preoptic area
The neuron structure in the prefrontal region shows larger ____ _____ in males than in females.
dendritic fields
_____ is the selectively narrowing or focusing of awareness to part of the sensory environment or to a class of stimuli.
attention
The posterior temporal lobe is larger on the ___ side of the brain.
right
The parietal lobe is larger on the __ side of the brain
left
The primary auditory area is larger on the ____ side of the brain.
right
____ ____ provide the basis for cognition; ___ __ act as computational units
cell assemblies; individual neurons
What will a split-brain patient say he sees when shown a spoon in his left visual field?
“I see nothing”
_____ ______ encompasses a whole range of mental functions that vary from navigational ability to the mental manipulation of complex visual arrays.
spatial cognition
The text presents an experiment in which monkeys were taught to identify apparent motion in a set of moving dots. In investigating if individual neurons or cell assemblies were responsible for perception, what was the conclusion of this study?
Individual neurons, not cell assemblies, influence perception
The _____ association cortex controls the ability to direct attention to where it is needed.
frontal
Howard Gardner proposed a theory of _____ _______
multiple intelligences
The dendritic fields in Broca’s area are larger than the same neurons on the right side of the brain. T/F
True!
_____ ____ ____ is a condition in which a person’s speech zone is located in the right hemisphere or in both hemispheres.
anomalous speech representation
According to Donald Hebb, _____ is a term for observed intelligence, influenced by experience and other factors in the course of development.
Intelligence B
When we express attitudes, like prejudices, which of the following area(s) of the brain is(are) NOT activated? A) ACC B) lat parietal regions C) temporal regions D) prefrontal areas
temporal regions
_______ _____ are hypothetical groups of neurons that become functionally connected via common sensory inputs.
cell assemblies
An idea or set of impressions that some mental ability exists as an entity is called a ____ ____
psychological construct
A _____ _____ is a map of the complete structural and functional fiber pathways of the human brain in vivo
brain connectome
_____ ______ is a philosophical question focused on how the brain ties single and varied sensory and motor events together into a unified perception or behavior.
binding problem
When tested, males excel on ___ ___ tasks
spatial reasoning
The mind’s level of responsiveness to impressions made by the senses is called _____
consciousness
