A. right cerebral hemisphere
B. left cerebral hemisphere
C. regular formation
D. corpus collosum
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 - 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 - 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 - Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area of the brain are involved in the ____________ and _____________ of speech respectively.
A. understanding, production
B. comprehension, formulation
C. organizing, production
D. production, comprehension - If you were to compare adult speech with the speech of infants under 6 months of age you should expect to find that:
A. adults are capable of producing more phonemes than infants are
B. adults and infants both use the same number of phenomes
C. infants produce more phonemes than adults do
D. adults and infants both use the same number of morphemes - Research participants were asked to identify a word that could be associated meaningfully with each of three other words. Solutions that occurred with sudden insight were accompanied by a burst of activity in the brain’s______lobe.
A. front occipital
B. left occipital
C. left temporal
D. right temporal - Behavioral problems caused by senility, drug damage, brain injury or disease, and the toxic effects of poisons are classified as_____disorders.
A. organic
B. psychotic
C. somatic
D. substance use - 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 - Identify the assertion from those given below, with regard to damage to the brain’s hemispheres:
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
