Question 1

Our ability to use information that is outside awareness to guide our behaviors is known as:

Accepted Answer

A)  selective attention. 
B)  gist. 
C)  unconscious inference. 
D)  unconscious deduction. 
A)  selective attention. 
B)  gist. 
C)  unconscious inference. 
D)  unconscious deduction. C

Question 2

The important book The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals was written by:

Accepted Answer

A)  Walter Cannon. 
B)  Charles Darwin. 
C)  Philip Bard. 
D)  Paul Bucy. 
A)  Walter Cannon. 
B)  Charles Darwin. 
C)  Philip Bard. 
D)  Paul Bucy. B

Question 3

The first major theory in the neurology of emotions was that of:

Accepted Answer

A)  Klüver and Bucy. 
B)  Hess. 
C)  Papez. 
D)  Olds. 
A)  Klüver and Bucy. 
B)  Hess. 
C)  Papez. 
D)  Olds. C

Question 4

Which of the following was NOT part of the original Klüver - Bucy syndrome?

Accepted Answer

A)  sham rage 
B)  hypermetamorphosis 
C)  visual agnosia 
D)  increased sexual behavior 
A)  sham rage 
B)  hypermetamorphosis 
C)  visual agnosia 
D)  increased sexual behavior

Question 5

The observation that laboratory - bred and - reared rats show fear responses when exposed to the odor of fox urine is evidence for:

Accepted Answer

A)  the high emotionality of laboratory rats. 
B)  a heritable genetic component to emotional behavior. 
C)  the ability of rats to rapidly learn stimulus-response associations. 
D)  the need to keep foxes out of research laboratories. 
A)  the high emotionality of laboratory rats. 
B)  a heritable genetic component to emotional behavior. 
C)  the ability of rats to rapidly learn stimulus-response associations. 
D)  the need to keep foxes out of research laboratories.

Question 6

Which of the following symptoms was observed in the person suffering from Klüver - Bucy syndrome who was studied by Marlowe and colleagues?

Accepted Answer

A)  flat affect 
B)  hyperexcitability 
C)  aphasia 
D)  alexia 
A)  flat affect 
B)  hyperexcitability 
C)  aphasia 
D)  alexia

Question 7

Reduced social interaction, loss of social dominance, and inappropriate social interactions are all a result of damage to the rhesus monkey's:

Accepted Answer

A)  frontal cortex. 
B)  cerebellar cortex. 
C)  parietal cortex. 
D)  hippocampus. 
A)  frontal cortex. 
B)  cerebellar cortex. 
C)  parietal cortex. 
D)  hippocampus.

Question 8

Studies of social cognition have revealed which of the following with respect to amygdala function?

Accepted Answer

A)  Bilateral amygdala lesions lead to deficits in processing negative emotions. 
B)  Right hemisphere unilateral amygdala lesions lead to deficits in processing positive emotions. 
C)  Left hemisphere unilateral amygdala lesions lead to deficits in processing positive emotions. 
D)  Bilateral amygdala lesions lead to deficits in processing positive emotions. 
A)  Bilateral amygdala lesions lead to deficits in processing negative emotions. 
B)  Right hemisphere unilateral amygdala lesions lead to deficits in processing positive emotions. 
C)  Left hemisphere unilateral amygdala lesions lead to deficits in processing positive emotions. 
D)  Bilateral amygdala lesions lead to deficits in processing positive emotions.

Question 9

The person who first performed frontal lobotomies in humans was:

Accepted Answer

A)  Carlyle Jacobsen. 
B)  Paul Bucy. 
C)  Egas Moniz. 
D)  Philip Bard. 
A)  Carlyle Jacobsen. 
B)  Paul Bucy. 
C)  Egas Moniz. 
D)  Philip Bard.

Question 10

Damage to Broca's area in the right hemisphere has been proposed by Ross to produce:

Accepted Answer

A)  sensory aprosodia. 
B)  global aprosodia. 
C)  conduction aprosodia. 
D)  motor aprosodia. 
A)  sensory aprosodia. 
B)  global aprosodia. 
C)  conduction aprosodia. 
D)  motor aprosodia.

Question 11

Based on Gainotti's study of the effects of unilateral cortical lesions on emotionality, a patient who shows pronounced indifference to emotional situations would be MOST likely also to show deficits on:

Accepted Answer

A)  the paragraph recall test. 
B)  a verbal IQ test. 
C)  the line bisection test. 
D)  tests of right-left discrimination. 
A)  the paragraph recall test. 
B)  a verbal IQ test. 
C)  the line bisection test. 
D)  tests of right-left discrimination.

Question 12

Findings from primate studies that demonstrate changes in emotional processing stemming from frontal lobe damage also lend support to frontal dysfunction in which of the following disorders?

Accepted Answer

A)  depression 
B)  Korsakoff's syndrome 
C)  schizophrenia 
D)  Alzheimer's disease 
A)  depression 
B)  Korsakoff's syndrome 
C)  schizophrenia 
D)  Alzheimer's disease

Question 13

The somatic marker hypothesis stresses the importance of emotional expression in:

Accepted Answer

A)  reasoning processes. 
B)  habit learning. 
C)  fear conditioning. 
D)  reflex formation. 
A)  reasoning processes. 
B)  habit learning. 
C)  fear conditioning. 
D)  reflex formation.

Question 14

A key component of the emotion - processing pathway connecting the sensory - association cortex with the hypothalamus is the:

Accepted Answer

A)  hippocampus. 
B)  insula. 
C)  amygdala. 
D)  dorsomedial thalamic nucleus. 
A)  hippocampus. 
B)  insula. 
C)  amygdala. 
D)  dorsomedial thalamic nucleus.

Question 15

A key aspect of LeDoux's theory of emotions is that over the course of evolution, emotional and cognitive processes have become increasingly:

Accepted Answer

A)  segregated. 
B)  identical. 
C)  interrelated. 
D)  irrelevant to each other. 
A)  segregated. 
B)  identical. 
C)  interrelated. 
D)  irrelevant to each other.

Question 16

The sight of a scowling human face would be MOST likely to lead to the greatest immediate increase in neural activity in the:

Accepted Answer

A)  left amygdala. 
B)  right amygdala. 
C)  left caudate nucleus. 
D)  right caudate nucleus. 
A)  left amygdala. 
B)  right amygdala. 
C)  left caudate nucleus. 
D)  right caudate nucleus.

Question 17

Results from the earliest experiments studying the neural bases of emotion supported an important role for the:

Accepted Answer

A)  thalamus and hypothalamus in the expression of emotion. 
B)  idea that emotional expression is subject to evolution just like other traits. 
C)  existence of a limbic lobe where emotion is experienced. 
D)  idea that the frontal lobes participate in emotional control. 
A)  thalamus and hypothalamus in the expression of emotion. 
B)  idea that emotional expression is subject to evolution just like other traits. 
C)  existence of a limbic lobe where emotion is experienced. 
D)  idea that the frontal lobes participate in emotional control.

Question 18

Lesions to which of the following brain regions are likely to impair a person's ability to use social context to guide behavior and to lead to inappropriate social interactions?

Accepted Answer

A)  the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex 
B)  the ventromedial prefrontal cortex 
C)  the posterior parietal cortex 
D)  the premotor and supplementary motor cortex 
A)  the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex 
B)  the ventromedial prefrontal cortex 
C)  the posterior parietal cortex 
D)  the premotor and supplementary motor cortex

Question 19

The frontoparietal mirror neuron network has been proposed by Uddin and colleagues to play an important role in the:

Accepted Answer

A)  ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects. 
B)  ability to understand the intentions of others in terms of one's own sense of self. 
C)  tendency to see faces in nonliving objects such as cloud formations. 
D)  synchronization, or mirroring, of neural activity between the left and right hemispheres.
Answer Key 
A)  ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects. 
B)  ability to understand the intentions of others in terms of one's own sense of self. 
C)  tendency to see faces in nonliving objects such as cloud formations. 
D)  synchronization, or mirroring, of neural activity between the left and right hemispheres.
Answer Key

Question 20

The observation that people with spinal injuries report reduced experiences of emotion has been taken to support the:

Accepted Answer

A)  Cannon-Bard theory. 
B)  cognitive-emotional interaction theory. 
C)  left-hemisphere interpreter theory. 
D)  somatic marker hypothesis. 
A)  Cannon-Bard theory. 
B)  cognitive-emotional interaction theory. 
C)  left-hemisphere interpreter theory. 
D)  somatic marker hypothesis.

Exam 20: Extension: A - Emotion and the Social Brain

Our ability to use information that is outside awareness to guide our behaviors is known as:

The important book The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals was written by:

The first major theory in the neurology of emotions was that of:

Which of the following was NOT part of the original Klüver - Bucy syndrome?

The observation that laboratory - bred and - reared rats show fear responses when exposed to the odor of fox urine is evidence for:

Which of the following symptoms was observed in the person suffering from Klüver - Bucy syndrome who was studied by Marlowe and colleagues?

Reduced social interaction, loss of social dominance, and inappropriate social interactions are all a result of damage to the rhesus monkey's:

Studies of social cognition have revealed which of the following with respect to amygdala function?

The person who first performed frontal lobotomies in humans was:

Damage to Broca's area in the right hemisphere has been proposed by Ross to produce:

Based on Gainotti's study of the effects of unilateral cortical lesions on emotionality, a patient who shows pronounced indifference to emotional situations would be MOST likely also to show deficits on:

Findings from primate studies that demonstrate changes in emotional processing stemming from frontal lobe damage also lend support to frontal dysfunction in which of the following disorders?

The somatic marker hypothesis stresses the importance of emotional expression in:

A key component of the emotion - processing pathway connecting the sensory - association cortex with the hypothalamus is the:

A key aspect of LeDoux's theory of emotions is that over the course of evolution, emotional and cognitive processes have become increasingly:

The sight of a scowling human face would be MOST likely to lead to the greatest immediate increase in neural activity in the:

Results from the earliest experiments studying the neural bases of emotion supported an important role for the:

Lesions to which of the following brain regions are likely to impair a person's ability to use social context to guide behavior and to lead to inappropriate social interactions?

The frontoparietal mirror neuron network has been proposed by Uddin and colleagues to play an important role in the:

The observation that people with spinal injuries report reduced experiences of emotion has been taken to support the:

Extension: A - The Development of Neuropsychology

Extension: B - The Development of Neuropsychology

Extension: C - The Development of Neuropsychology

Extension: A - Research on the Origins of the Human Brain and Behavior

Extension: B - Research on the Origins of the Human Brain and Behavior

Extension: C - Research on the Origins of the Human Brain and Behavior

Extension: A - Nervous System Organization

Extension: B - Nervous System Organization

Extension: C - Nervous System Organization

Extension: A - the Structure and Electrical Activity of Neurons

Extension: B - the Structure and Electrical Activity of Neurons

Extension: C - the Structure and Electrical Activity of Neurons

Extension: A - Communication Between Neurons

Extension: B - Communication Between Neurons

Extension: C - Communication Between Neurons

Extension: A - The Influence of Drugs and Hormones on Behavior

Extension: B - The Influence of Drugs and Hormones on Behavior

Extension: C - The Influence of Drugs and Hormones on Behavior

Extension: A - Imaging the Brains Activity

Extension: B - Imaging the Brains Activity

Extension: C - Imaging the Brains Activity

Extension: A - Organization of the Sensory Systems

Extension: B - Organization of the Sensory Systems

Extension: C - Organization of the Sensory Systems

Extension: A - Organization of the Motor System

Extension: B - Organization of the Motor System

Extension: C - Organization of the Motor System

Extension: A - Principles of Neurocortical Function

Extension: B - Principles of Neurocortical Function

Extension: C - Principles of Neurocortical Function

Extension: A - Cerebral Asymmetry

Extension: B - Cerebral Asymmetry

Extension: C - Cerebral Asymmetry

Extension: A - Variations in Cerebral Asymmetry

Extension: B - Variations in Cerebral Asymmetry

Extension: C - Variations in Cerebral Asymmetry

Extension: A - The Occipital Lobes

Extension: B - The Occipital Lobes

Extension: C - The Occipital Lobes

Extension: A - The Parietal Lobes

Extension: B - The Parietal Lobes

Extension: C - The Parietal Lobes

Extension: A - The Temporal Lobes

Extension: B - The Temporal Lobes

Extension: C - The Temporal Lobes

Extension: A - The Frontal Lobes

Extension: B - The Frontal Lobes

Extension: C - The Frontal Lobes

Extension: A - Cortical Networks and Disconnection Syndromes

Extension: B - Cortical Networks and Disconnection Syndromes

Extension: C - Cortical Networks and Disconnection Syndromes

Extension: A - Learning and Memory

Extension: B - Learning and Memory

Extension: C - Learning and Memory

Extension: A - Language

Extension: B - Language

Extension: C - Language

Extension: B - Emotion and the Social Brain

Extension: C - Emotion and the Social Brain