Exam 13: Cognitive Functions

 The best description of oxytocin may be that it ____.

 The training of Kanzi differed from the earlier language studies using other chimpanzees in that Kanzi ____.

 Dr. Vancil can tell when her patients have lost consciousness because they experience _____.

 A person with Broca's aphasia ____.

 In most people, the right hemisphere is dominant for speech.

 Shameka has frontotemporal dementia and shows little interest in how others perceive her. She would most likely _____.

 The nonhuman species that has made the most spectacular progress toward learning to communicate by an approximation of human language is the ____.

 The frontal orienting fields are located in the _____.

 Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker proposed that humans have a ____.

 A person with spatial neglect is more likely to notice an object placed in the left hand if ____.

 Normally, a split-brain patient should be able to name an object flashed to the left visual field.

 Dyseidetic dyslexics have the most difficulty with ____.

 Provide a detailed description of spatial neglect.

 Wernicke's aphasia is also known as ____.

 What is the apparent relationship between language abilities and other intellectual abilities?

 Lekisha feels that everything that exists is material. Her belief would be described as identity position.

 A split-brain patient sees something in her left visual field, and must reach behind a screen and select the object from a group of objects. She will select the object correctly with ____.

 Dyslexia is more common among languages that ____.

 Someone suffering from Wernicke's aphasia has difficulty ____.

 Wernicke discovered that damage to the ____ cortex produced language impairment.