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Midterm Questions Flashcards

1
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Motor performance is affected by many factors, resulting in performance fluctuations that may be permanent in nature

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False

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Motor Learning is characterized by changes in internal processes that determine an individual’s capability for producing a motor task. These changes are classified as temporary in nature

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False

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3
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For a movement to qualify as a skill it does not have to have a desired environmental goal

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False

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4
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Achieving a goal in a minimum time is a feature of a skill

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True

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5
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Being skilled implies meeting the desired goal with maximum certainty

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True

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A major feature of skill is the minimization of energy required for performance

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True

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7
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Discrete motor skills are the ones not mentioned in public

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False

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Continuous motor skills are reoccuring tasks

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True

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9
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An example of a serial motor skill given in class is pole vaulting

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True

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10
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Variable error tells you how consistent the performance is

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True

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11
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Constant error tells you how consistent the performance is

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False

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12
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Reaction time is the time between the beginning of a response and its completion

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False

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13
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Movement time is the time between the onset of a stimulus and the completion of a response

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False

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14
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Basketball is an example of an “open” skill

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True

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15
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Performing a task faster often reduces the accuracy of the performance

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True

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16
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A secondary task/distractor task can be used to measure the attention necessary to perform a task

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True

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17
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The process-oriented approach to studying skills concentrates exclusively on the task performance

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False

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18
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Attention implies withdrawing from some things in order to deal efficiently with others

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True

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19
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Attention is related to some limitation in available processing capacity

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True

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20
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Attention can be studied by measuring the interference between two tasks performed at the same time

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True

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21
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One theory of attention is that it is a single limited capacity resource

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True

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22
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One theory of attention is that it is a set of resources each of which handles certain kinds of processing and has their own limited capacities

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True

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23
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The single resource theory of attention explains why it is easier to drive a car and listen to the radio than drive a car and text on your cell phone

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False

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24
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Controlled processing is fast

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False

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25
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Automatic Processing is slow

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False

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26
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Automatic Processing is serial in nature

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False

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27
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Controlled processing is NOT ‘volitional’

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False

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28
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When there are two different responses, only one can be initiated at a time

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True

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29
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The single channel theory states that if one stimulus enters the single channel, a second stimulus must wait for processing

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True

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30
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The fake jump shot in basketball was given as an example of the physiological refractory period

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True

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31
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Perceptual anticipation involves the detection of upcoming events with various sensory receptors

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False

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32
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Selective attention is determined by past experience of the performer and the skill being performed

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True

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33
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Habituation states that you respond more quickly to constant stimuli

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False

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34
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The terms arousal, stress, motivation, activation and anxiety are used interchangeable in literature

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True

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35
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State anxiety can vary from minute to minute and from task to task

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True

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36
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More complex tasks can be performed at higher levels with greater arousal than less complex tasks

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False

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37
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Clinicians may measure proprioception by watching for drift when the patient is holding a position with their eyes closed

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True

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38
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Skin Stretch contributes to movement sensation at most joints

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True

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39
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Muscle spindles respond to pressure

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False

40
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Proprioceptive errors after exercise are due to fatigued muscles

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False

41
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Visual information dominates auditory in both the spatial and temporal domain

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True

42
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A ventriloquism effect can occur whether or not the visual and auditory stimuli are perceived as congruent

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False

43
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Brain areas previously considered unisensory have shown multisensory interactions

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True

44
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A low correlation (either positive or negative) alows accurate prediction of performance on one test from performance on a different test)

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False

45
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In primary motor cortex (M1), somatotopic organization is coarse, with hand/finger/wrist representations somewhat intermingles

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True

46
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Plasticity happens at the synapse level

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True

47
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Dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) is concerned with the spatial location of targets for reaching

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True

48
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Mirror neurons respond when the monkey observes someone else performing an action, but not when the monkey performs the action himself

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False

49
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Neurons in supplementary motor area (SMA) are active for complex sequences of finger tapping movements

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True

50
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SMA neurons are active for motor execution of a simple finger tapping movements

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False

51
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SMA lesions often cause peripersonal neglect

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False

52
Q

The cerebellum affects the ipsilateral side of the body

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True

53
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The vermis is concerned with motor planning

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False

54
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The lateral zone of the cerebellum is concerned with balance and eye movements

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False

55
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Cerebellar lesions often result in resting tremor

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False

56
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Patients with cerebellar ataxia often have difficulty with prism adaptation

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True

57
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Basal ganglia neurons fire well before movement initiation suggesting this structure has a role in motor planning

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False

58
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Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease are both related to basal ganglia dysfunction

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True

59
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According to H.W Johnson’s (1961) categorization, which of the following factors does not play a role in determining a skill: A) Strength B)Speed C) Accuracy D)Form E) Adaptability

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A: Strength

60
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Which of the following is the role of the Central Executive in the Baddely and Hitch Working Memory Model? A) Make decisions about what action to take B) Distribute additional resources to other systems C) Filter out information

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B: Distribute additional resources to other systems

61
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Which of the following is NOT one of the notable individual’s listed in class? A) Paul Fitts B) Franklin Henry C) Richard B. Smith D)Jack Adams E) Richard A. Schmidt

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C: Richard B. Smith

62
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A skill is performed in an environment which is unpredictable is a: A) Discrete Skill B) Serial Skill C) Open Skill D) Closed Skill

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C: Open Skill

63
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Which of the following is NOT a stage of information processing? A) Stimulus Identification B) Reaction Time C) Response Selection D) Response Programming

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C: Response Selection

64
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Which is NOT one of the methods used for processing? A) Serial B) Convex C) Parallel

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B: Convex

65
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The amount of information increases with the number of: A) Possible things which might have occurred B) Things that DID occur

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A: Possible things which might have occured

66
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Population stereotypes are A: Over-Learned Relationships B: “Wired-In” Relationships C: Ones that cannot be changed D: Genetically determined

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A: Over-Learned Relationships

67
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In the preceding figure, the intercept measures A: Overall “speed” of the perceptual and motor systems of any decision about which response to make B: The “speed” of decision making by teh response-selection state of processing

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A: Overall “speed” of the perceptual and motor systems of any decision about which response to make

68
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Which of the following is an example of neuroplasticity? A) Exercise results in muscle growth, with corresponding increase in blood supply B) In an ischemic stroke, neurons die because of a blockage in the circulatory system C) After a leg amputation, neurons in the leg area of somatosensory cortex become responsive to surrounding body parts D) Both B and C

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C: After a leg amputation, neurons in the leg area of somatosensory cortex become responsive to surrounding body parts

69
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Which of the following are benefits of multisensory integration? A) Sensor Redundancy B) Complementary information may be gained C) Inaccurate information is ignored D) Both A and B

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D: Both A and B

70
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Which statement is true regarding somatotopic organization of primary motor cortex? A) Face representations are medial, leg lateral and hand in between B) leg represenations are medial, face lateral, hand in between C) Hand representations are medial, leg lateral, and face in between D) Leg representations are medial, hand lateral, and face in between E) Hand representations are medial, face lateral, and leg in between

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B: Leg representations are medial, face lateral, hand in between

71
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Which statement is true of premotor cortex (PMv and PMd) A) PMd is concerned with the spatial locations of targets for reaching B) PMv is concerned with the shape of an object for grasping C) PMd plays a role in speech and action understanding D) Both A and B E) Both B and C

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D: Both A and B are true

72
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Which statement is true of BOTH the basal ganglia and cerebellum? A: Both play a role in limb movement, eye movement, balance, and cognition B: Each of these structures make up 10% of the brain’s volume but contains about half its neurons C: Both can be described in terms of the “brake hypothesis” D: Both have excitatory output

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A: Both play a role in limb movement, eye movement, balance, and cognition

73
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Patient has difficulty starting a movement, but can keep going once he is in motion. The patient is most likely to have: A: Cerebellar Ataxia B: Parkinson’s Disease C: Huntington’s Disease D: Either B or C

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B: Parkinsons Disease

74
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A

A

Sensory End Organs

75
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B

A

Short-Term Memory

76
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C

A

Long-Term Memory

77
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D

A

Response Organization

78
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E

A

Decision Making

79
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A

A

Stimulus Identification

80
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B

A

Response Selection

81
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C

A

Response Programming

82
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D

A

Premotor RT

83
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E

A

Motor RT

84
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A

A

Noise Distribution

85
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B

A

Signal and Noise Distribution

86
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A

A

Visuospatial Sketchpad

87
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B

A

Central Executive

88
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C

A

Phonological Loop

89
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A

A

Hit

90
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B

A

Miss

91
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C

A

False Alarm

92
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D

A

Correct Rejection

93
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Which one is Yerkes-Dodson Law?

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C

94
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Which one?

A

A

95
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A

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