A. reading
B. speaking fluently
C. remembering past events
D. understanding other people when they speak
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 - Three year old Shawn ate lead paint which was chipping off the walls in an older home. Consequently, he developed a psychosis based on brain damage due to lead poisoning. Shawn’s psychosis would be called a(n):
A. functional psychosis
B. organic psychosis
C. neural psychosis
D. neo – cortical psychosis - Damage to hippocampus would result in difficulty ____________?
A. understanding language
B. producing language
C. encoding new information into long-term memory
D. processing sensory information - Pervez has profound difficulty producing spoken language. if his problem attributable to brain damage would probably be found in:
A. the cerebellum
B. Sperry’s area
C. Broca’s area
D. Wernicke’s area - 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 - 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 - 30-year-old woman tells a friend that she doesn’t want to marry because she is afraid of losing her freedom and independence. Erikson would say that she is having difficulty with the psychosocial task of ______________?
A. trust vs. mistrust
B. autonomy vs. doubt
C. intimacy vs. isolation
D. identity vs. role confusion - Damage to the ventromedial region of the hypothalamus would most likely result in ______________?
A. agnosia
B. apraxia
C. aphasia
D. hyperphagia - Severe anoxia at birth will result in damage to the ______________?
A. brain
B. lungs
C. heart
D. liver
