A. Serve hemi-neglect often results from damage to the left parietal lobe
B. Patients with hemi-neglect may ignore the entire left half of the world
C. The right hemisphere might be able to support bilateral spatial attentional processes
D. When the left hemisphere is damaged the right may be able to take over processes that would normally depend on the left hemisphere
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - In speech impairment from brain damage, damage has occurred in ____________?
A. right cerebral hemisphere
B. left cerebral hemisphere
C. regular formation
D. corpus collosum - 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 - 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 - By the early years of the twentieth century, Sigmund Freud had begun to write about psychoanalysis, which he described as ‘a theory of the mind or personality, a method of investigation of unconscious process and a method of treatment’. Identify the true statement from those given below, in relation to his concept to his psychoanalytic theories:
A. The concept of unconscious mental processes is the idea that unconscious motivations and needs have a role in determining or behaviour
B. The concept of unconscious mental processes emphasizes the rational aspects of human behaviour
C. A psychogenetic model of development shows how the mind is organized
D. A topographic model of the psyche shows how personality develops - Identify the FALSE statement relating to affects, from those given below:
A. The way we feel can determined by immediate responses to situations as they occur
B. The way we feel can be determined by immediate responses to situations as they occur
C. Feeling angry anxious or happy might impact on any of the other types of cognition, changing the way we respond
D. A dispositionally calm person will not become anxious even when the elevator they are travelling in becomes stuck between floors - Select the TWO correct statements from those below with regard to psychological research:
1.You can fully understand the result of an IQ test without knowing anything about intelligence testing and standard scores.
2. if two things are correlated this signifies that one is the cause of the other.
3. A good knowledge of psychological research methods allows you to avoid making the mistakes that journalists politicians and many others make because they lack the necessary conceptual understanding.
4. In most countries, in order to become a psychologist, you will be required to conduct a piece of psychological research.A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 1 & 4
D. 3 & 4 - 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 - A large band of axons that help cerebral hemispheres to communicate:
A. Corpus collasum
B. Cerebral cortex
C. Amygdala
D. Pons - 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
