Mini Review Units 1-3

Significant damage to which of the following parts of the brain will most likely cause a person to fall into a deep coma from which the person will be unable to awaken?

• Hypothalamus

• Frontal lobe

• Reticular formation

• Thalamus

When ten-month-old Frances throws her toy out of sight, she looks to see where it falls. Developmental psychologists would say that Frances’ behavior indicates that she has developed

• reversibility

• conservation

• egocentrism

• object permanence

A basic assumption underlying short-term memory is that it is

• limited in capacity

• unlimited in capacity

• not under conscious control

• resistant to decay

A disadvantage of longitudinal studies is that

• differences observed among participants of different ages are usually due to differences in the environment in which they were reared

• participants who drop out during the course of the study may be different in important ways from ones who do not drop out

• personality traits do not remain constant across the life span

• men and women confront different developmental crises in the course of their lives because of their different social roles

A person with damage to Broca's area would most likely demonstrate which of the following symptoms?

• Forgetfulness

• Hearing difficulties

• Difficulty controlling balance and coordination

• Difficulty with speech production

A prototype is best defined as

• an example of bottom-up processing

• the equivalent of feature abstraction

• the hypothetical "most typical" instance of a category

• an essential element of category membership

The area of the brain stem that is important in controlling breathing is

• cerebellum

• limbic system

• medulla

• hippocampus

In a normal distribution of scores on assessments like those for intelligence, which of the following statements is true about the area that falls between one standard deviation above and one standard deviation below the mean?

• It contains the bottom 50% of the distribution.

• It contains the middle 50% of the distribution.

• It contains the bottom 68% of the distribution.

• It contains the middle 68% of the distribution.

Which of the following brain structures is most closely associated with Ted’s fear response?

• Medulla

• Occipital lobe

• Hippocampus

• Amygdala

A team of investigators discovered that taxi drivers who had memorized all the streets in their city had a larger hippocampus than bus drivers who did not have the streets memorized. This type of difference between these two groups most likely reflects

• brain plasticity

• split-brain phenomenon

• parasympathetic nervous system activation

• the Flynn effect