Wernicke’s area is responsible for:

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. Wernicke – korsakoff syndrome is characterised by apathy, amnesia confabulation and ataxia. It is caused by the lack of which vitamin?

   A. Selenium
   B. Manganese
   C. Thiamine
   D. Zinc

3. 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

4. The limbic system is responsible for:

   A. the control of hunger, thirst and sex
   B. executive functions
   C. heartbeat and breathing regulation
   D. auditory processing

5. The insanity defense dates back to the English courts, where it was originally held that to be responsible for an act, the defendant must:

   A. understand the wrongfulness of the act
   B. be in a state of diminished capacity
   C. have acted on an irresistible impulse
   D. be able to recall the criminal act

6. Which of the following is responsible for controlling involuntary responses by influencing organs, glands and smooth muscles?

   A. Somatic nervous system
   B. Autonomic nervous system
   C. Central nervous system
   D. Diffused nervous system

7. Motivation concerns the conditions responsible for variations in intensity, quality, and_______of ongoing behavior.

   A. Amplitude
   B. Satisfaction
   C. Direction
   D. Learning

8. Which lobe is responsible for sensation and spatial ability?

   A. Parietal
   B. Frontal
   C. Temporal
   D. Occipital

9. The limbic system is responsible for:

   A. the control hunger, thirst and sex
   B. executive functions
   C. heartbeat and breathing regulation
   D. auditory processing

10. The person responsible for the development and design of the first useful individual test of intelligence is:

    A. Freud
    B. Terman
    C. Binet
    D. Wechsler