Cognitive Neuroscience

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Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuropsychology


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  • 1. 

    Changes in hippocampi are targetted in AD & conseq memory problems. This is:

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 2. 

    The example of George was able to draw the complex figure of rey in a rather intact, rapid fashion, even though he was unable to keep appt, due to suspected oxygen deprivation following cardiac surgery. This is:

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    B. False
  • 3. 

    Without his routine life or scripts, George started to display signs of memory disorder. This is:

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 4. 

    So, memory is about communication between regions or functional systems, rather than specific structures on their own. This is:

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 5. 

    Factors that enable a person to deal effectively with their environment, are:

    • A.

      Alert, perceive, store information over time, plan, communicate

    • B.

      Encode, store, consolidate, perceive, communicate

    • C.

      Encode, alert, store, plan, communicate

    • D.

      None of the above

    • E.

      Being one step ahead all the time

    Correct Answer
    A. Alert, perceive, store information over time, plan, communicate
  • 6. 

    There will not necessarily be any difference in a memory disorder between a massive stroke and someone who has a lesion disconnecting their cortical and sub-cortical regions. This is:

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    B. False
  • 7. 

    Disruptions of cognition and behaviour can result from either:

    • A.

      Cortical

    • B.

      Sub-cortical

    • C.

      Pathway disconnections

    • D.

      All of the above

    • E.

      Very difficult to tell

    Correct Answer
    D. All of the above
  • 8. 

    Memory and emotional processing are intimately connected. This is:

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 9. 

    Lect 2: After the wars, the next most significant group informing acquired brain injury has been:

    • A.

      Drug/alcohol abuse

    • B.

      Road trauma

    • C.

      Strokes, MS

    • D.

      Poisoning, PD

    • E.

      Tumours, dementia

    Correct Answer
    B. Road trauma
  • 10. 

    Memory cannot be fractionated into verbal and facial for example. This is:

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    B. False
  • 11. 

    The hippocampi is critical in ____, the prefrontal region is involved in ____ and the left parietal cortex is an ____ and involved in ____.

    • A.

      Encoding, retrieval, interface, retrieval.

    • B.

      Retrieval, encoding, interface, retrieval

    • C.

      Encoding, consolidation, interface, retrieval

    • D.

      None of the above

    Correct Answer
    A. Encoding, retrieval, interface, retrieval.
  • 12. 

    The episodic buffer is an integrator. This is:

    • A.

      False

    • B.

      True

    Correct Answer
    B. True
  • 13. 

    Which process requires the hippocampi, thalamus, mammillary bodies and neocortex?

    • A.

      Encoding

    • B.

      Consolidation

    • C.

      Retrieval

    • D.

      Storage

    • E.

      Memory

    Correct Answer
    B. Consolidation
  • 14. 

    Most amnesics have some interruption of long-term memory. This is:

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 15. 

    Explicit memory is tested using 'degraded stimuli'. This is:

    • A.

      True

    • B.

      False

    Correct Answer
    B. False

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