A. the cerebellum
B. Sperry’s area
C. Broca’s area
D. Wernicke’s area
Related Mcqs:
- After Rauf’s serious snow-skiing accident, doctors detected damage to his cerebral cortex in Wernicke’s area. Because of the damage, Rauf is most likely to experience difficulty in:
A. understanding what others are saying
B. recognizing familiar faces
C. pronouncing words correctly
D. controlling voluntary muscles - After he suffered a stroke, Mr. Salim’s physical coordination skills and responsiveness to sensory stimulation quickly returned to normal unfortunately, however, he began to experience unusual difficulty figuring out how to find his way to various locations in his neighborhood. it most likely that Mr. Salim suffered damage to his:
A. cerebellum
B. autonomic nervous system
C. thalamus
D. association areas - Phonemes are the smallest units of______in a spoken language; morphemes are the smallest units of_______in language.
A. sound; syntax
B. meaning; syntax
C. syntax; meaning
D. sound; meaning - In speech impairment from brain damage, damage has occurred in ____________?
A. right cerebral hemisphere
B. left cerebral hemisphere
C. regular formation
D. corpus collosum - Which, if any, of the following are true? 1: Each region of the neocortex may contain more specialized modules. 2: Damage to a given volume of neocortical tissue tends to be more profoundly disabling than damage to the same volume of the subcortex. 3: Functional neuro-imaging methods allow us to observe which brain regions are active.
A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 1 & 3
D. None - Rais just came back from seeing a neurologist. Rais tells you that he will be having a test in which images of his brain will be recorded after radioactive chemicals have been injected into his chemicals have been injected into his bloodstream. However, Rais can’t remember the actual name of the test. it appears that his neurologist is planning:
A. an electroencephalograph (EEG) recording
B. a positron emission tomography (PET) scan
C. a computerized tomography(CT) scan
D. a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan - The capacity of one brain area to take over the functions of another damaged brain area is known as brain:
A. tomography
B. hemispherectomy
C. phrenology
D. plasticity - The capacity of the brain area to take over the function of another damaged brain area is known as brain _______________?
A. regeneration
B. accommodation
C. aphasia
D. plasticity - Chomsky suggested that a person’s unique experiences with a language are most likely to influence the________of that person’s spoken sentences.
A. surface structure
B. linguistic determinism
C. functional fixedness
D. belief perseverance - Waqas looked directly into a very bright light and damaged his retina. The ophthalmologist has told him that he has sustained massive damage to his rods but for the most part his cones have not been affected. One change that you could predict for Waqas’ vision is that he will now have:
A. more accurate depth perception
B. poor vision in bright illumination
C. poor vision in low illumination
D. poor peripheral vision
