test 7 ripasso

What were the main limitations of group studies in the 1960s?. a) the sample size required to make meaningful inferences. b) the relative nonspecificity of anatomical observations. c) the time needed to complete a study. d) all answers are correct.

What do Lashley and Flourens have in common?. a) a specific criticism of Lichtheim’s model. b) the neo-phrenological approach. c) the rejection of cortical area specialization. d) the classical associationist approach.

What is the relationship between cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology?. a) neuropsychology is a branch of cognitive neuroscience. b) cognitive neuroscience is a branch of neuropsychology. c) they are two completely independent disciplines. d) neuropsychology is the daughter of cognitive neuroscience.

Which of the following assumptions is NOT considered by cognitive neuropsychology?. a) modularity. b) correspondence. c) constancy. d) cultural invariance.

The assumption of constancy can be fully tested only: a) none of the answers is correct. b) by complementing behavioral studies with anatomo-functional studies. c) with exclusively anatomical studies. d) with exclusively behavioral studies.

For what reason is Henry Hecaen rightly famous?. a) for having founded the journal Neuropsychologia. b) for having contributed to founding the International Neuropsychological Symposium. c) all answers are correct. d) studies on left-handedness and cerebral dominance.

The first cognitive-style neuropsychological article dealt with: a) reading disorders. b) long-term memory disorders. c) short-term memory disorders. d) frontal functions.

How were groups typically formed in population studies in 1960s neuropsychology?. a) based on gender. b) based on lesion site. c) by age. d) none of the answers is correct.

A module according to Marr and Fodor: a) has operations not accessible through conscious introspection. b) should correspond to a single cortical operator. c) cannot be fractionated into subcomponents. d) all answers are correct.

Who was the first to hold a chair in neuropsychology?. a) Henry Hecaen. b) Donald Hebb. c) Karl Lashley. d) Heinrich Klüver.

Leonardo Bianchi: a) carried out fundamental research on the parietal lobes of the macaque. b) carried out fundamental research on the parietal lobes of the rat. c) carried out fundamental research on the frontal lobes of the macaque. d) carried out fundamental research on the frontal lobes of the rat.

Von Monakow is famous for proposing the concept of: a) diaschisis, functional impairment of brain regions directly affected by anatomical damage. b) paraschisis, functional impairment of brain regions directly affected by anatomical damage. c) none of the answers is correct. d) diaschisis, functional impairment of brain regions not directly affected by anatomical damage.

In which class of studies is the anatomical approach based on cranial morphology still current in neuroscience?. a) paleoneurology, the science studying Homo sapiens of the Middle Ages. b) none of the answers is correct. c) paleoneurology, the science studying the peripheral nervous system of hominids. d) paleoneurology, the science studying the central nervous system of hominids and of Homo sapiens sapiens before the 1900s.