Module 1
What term denotes a sudden change in the electrical properties of the neuron membrane?
What is an Action Potential?
Which layer of the primary visual cortex is responsible for processing color?
What is V4?
A state in which a person knows, conceptually, the word that he/she wishes to say but is unable to retrieve the corresponding spoken form is called what?
What is Tip-of-the-Tongue?
Writing was first represented in the form of what?
What are pictures?
Who is responsible for pioneering the frontal lobotomy to treat psychiatric symptoms in the United States?
Who is Walter Freeman?
A situation in which a particular emotion occurs frequently or continuously is known as what?
What is Mood?
Who coined the phrase “nature and nurture”?
Who is Francis Galton?
Which method has the best temporal resolution?
What is Electroencephalography?
What is the term for the process by which certain information is selected for further processing while other information is discarded?
What is Attention?
What is the term for a minimal contrastive unit of speech?
What is a phoneme?
The Japanese Kana system of writing is often cited as an example of what kind of script?
What is syllabic?
Which test requires participants to name the ink color and ignore the word that is printed (e.g. GREEN printed in red ink)?
What is the Stroop Task?
What term describes a pathological fear of certain stimuli that is out of proportion to the actual threat posed?
What is a phobia?
In which part of the brain does synaptic density not reach adult levels until adolescence?
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Atrophy to the cells in the substantia nigra is a feature of what disease?
What is Parkinson's Disease?
Which area of the brain is responsible for voluntary movement of the eyes?
What are the Frontal Eye Fields?
What name is given to the process of matching a perceptual description of a word on to a stored memory description of that word?
What is Lexical Access?
What is the term for the smallest meaningful unit of written language?
What is a grapheme?
Which part of the brain is most strongly associated with executive functions?
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Which region of the brain has been implicated in reward prediction?
What is the Ventral Striatum?
The embryo’s precursor to the central nervous system, consisting of a set of cells arranged in a hollow cylinder, is called what?
What is the neural tube?
Who is credited with the idea of Phrenology?
Who is Gall & Spurzheim
The main pathway from the eyes to the visual cortex travels through what structure?
What is the Thalamus?
Which chimpanzee has learned to communicate using only lexigrams?
The concept that it is easier to detect the presence of a single letter if it is embedded in a word is known as what?
What is the word superiority effect?
Which test of executive functions requires participants to switch between processing different dimensions of a stimulus (color, shape, number)?
What is the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task?
Patients that fail to show a skin conductance response to a neutral stimulus previously associated with an electric shock, likely has a lesion in which structure of the brain?
What is the amygdala?
Who conducted (and when) the study that found people with a particular genotype who also happened to use cannabis during adolescence have an elevated risk of schizophrenia?
Who is Caspi et al., 2005?
Which lobe of the brain is most posterior?
What is the Occipital Lobe?
Patient H.M. had damage to which part of the brain?
What is the Medial Temporal Lobe?
Saying “hissed my mystery lecture” instead of “missed my history lecture” is an example of what type of speech error?
What is a Spoonerism?
A tendency to mispronounce irregular words (e.g. CHAOS read with “ch” sound) is a feature of what disorder?
What is acquired surface dyslexia?
In the SAS model, what is the name of the mechanism that selects one particular schema to be enacted from a host of competing schemas?
What is contention scheduling?
From a diagnostic point of view, what is the difference between autism and Asperger syndrome?
Asperger syndrome is autism but without a delay in early language and cognitive development.
If a genetic disposition makes someone more likely to take risks, then this is an example of what?
What is a gene-environment correlation?
The change in BOLD signal over time is known as what?
What are the three clinical characteristics of Balint's Syndrome?
What is simultanagnosia, optic ataxia and occulomotor apraxia?
The N400 ERP response is associated with what kind of cognitive processes?
Deciding whether a letter string is a real or made-up word is a feature of what task?
What is a lexical decision?
Which test of executive functions requires participants to move colored beads from one peg to another, following specific rules?
What is the Tower of London Task?
Who conducted ethnographic studies of facial emotions and concluded that there are six emotional categories independent of culture?
Who is Paul Ekman?
What are three key symptoms of schizophrenia?
What are delusions, hallucinations and disorganized thought?