Chapter 8: The Anatomy and Physiology of Personality

Question 1

What are the 3 methods to study the brain?

Answer 1

1. Brain damage
2. Brain stimulation
3. Brain activity and imaging

Question 2

What is the Capgras syndrome?

Answer 2

When patients recognize a loved one after a frontal head injury but are completely unable to feel any emotional response to this recognition

Question 3

The research methods used to study the brain..
a. are essentially unchanged from methods that were used when people first started studying the brain
b. provide completely reliable, objective, and indisputable evidence about how the brain is related to behavior
c. make it possible to observe which parts of the brain are most active
d. only work with animals

Answer 3

c. make it possible to observe which parts of the brain are most active

Question 4

The frontal lobes and neocortex seem to play a role in…
a. social understanding and self-control
b. emotions and decision making
c. how people respond to pleasant and unpleasant stimuli
d. all of the above

Answer 4

d. all of the above