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6. Which way to investigate the brain is relatively risk free/non-invasive?

  • Post-mortem
  • EEG
  • fMRI
  • ERP

7. What is an example of an infradian rhythm?

  • Core body temperature
  • Menstrual cycle
  • Sleep-wake cycle
  • Sleep stages

8. What group did Maguire study in 2000, finding increased grey matter in the posterior hippocampus?

  • College graduates
  • London taxi drivers
  • Medical students
  • High school drop outs

9. Which way to investigate the brain is specific but requires all background noise to be eliminated?

  • EEG
  • ERP
  • fMRI
  • Post-mortem

10. What term describes mechanisms in the body that govern our internal bodily rhythms?

  • Hormones
  • Exogenous zeitgeibers
  • Endogenous pacemakers
  • Homeostasis

11. What happened when patients were shown a word in their left visual field and asked to speak it aloud?

  • Able to describe it - language centres are in the left hemisphere
  • Unable to describe it - language centres are in the left hemisphere
  • Unable to describe it - language centres are in the right hemisphere
  • Able to describe it - language centres are in the right hemisphere

12. Where is Wernicke's area?

  • Occipital lobe
  • Parietal lobe
  • Temporal lobe
  • Frontal lobe

13. Where is Broca's area?

  • Frontal lobe
  • Temporal lobe
  • Parietal lobe
  • Occipital lobe

14. Where is the motor area?

  • Occipital lobe
  • Frontal lobe
  • Temporal lobe
  • Parietal lobe

15. What evidence disputes ideas of functional recovery after trauma being most present in young people?

  • Maguire - taxi driver study
  • Bezzola - 40 hours of golf training for adults led to change in brains
  • Practical applications
  • Tajiri - found stem cells assisted in brain recovery

16. What term describes when areas on the opposite side of the brain replace the damaged areas on the other side?

  • Reformation of blood vessels
  • Synaptic pruning
  • Recruitment of homologous areas
  • Axonal sprouting

17. Which way to investigate the brain has high temporal resolution but is unspecific?

  • fMRI
  • EEG
  • Post-mortem
  • ERP

18. Which biological rhythm describes a 24 hour cycle?

  • Ultradian rhythms
  • Sleep rhythms
  • Circadian rhythms
  • Infradian rhythms

19. What is an example of an exogenous zeitgeber?

  • Glands
  • Light
  • Hormones
  • Humans

20. Who conducted Split-Brain research?

  • Puccetti, 1974
  • Sperry, 1968
  • Wernicke, 1968
  • Broca, 1959