WorksheetsM & B: MCQS for revision
Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 21mins
Plato and Aristotle walk into a bar. The Bartender said he will give free drinks to the philosopher who sees soul as the organising principle of the living body. Who is going to get free drinks?
Plato
Aristotle
Both
Neither
Descartes proposed that the _______ in the brain served as the principal seat of the soul and
the point where mind and body interact.
Basal Ganglia
Parietal lobe
Pineal Gland
Hippocampus
Physical reality is ultimately mental in nature. Matter is a manifestation of mind, not vice versa. Which philosophical theory does this represent?
Idealism
Dualism
Physicalism
None of the options
For the purpose of surgical planning, combining which two techniques could provide both precise localization and functional context?
EEG and PET
MEG and fMRI
CT and MRI
SPECT and EEG
Brain is the fattiest organ in the body? What purpose does the fat serve?
Catalyze chemical reactions in the brain
They are essential for building myelin sheaths
The fat provides cushioning to the brain
It serves no purpose
In this famous Bollywood movie, a girl named Anjali makes an impulsive decision to leave her college due to being heartbroken. Later on, she regrets this decision. Her friends decide to comfort her by saying, "It's okay Anajali, you were not even 25, your (a) cortex was still developing."
I have 'x' number of iphones, each with 256 GB storage. How many would I need to have as much storage as the brain?
5000
10000
6000
1000
What principle is based on the idea that the connections between neurons are constantly being created or pruned? (Hint: it forms the basis for learning.)
Neuroimaging
Neuroplasticity
Brain Dysfunction and recovery
Memory
Which part of the brain contains Substantia Nigra?
Midbrain
Forebrain
Hindbrain
Regulation of breathing and heart rate is a function of which part of the brain?
Hindbrain
Forebrain
Midbrain
The 2 cerebral hemispheres are joined together by? This also facilitates communication between the two hemispheres.
Hypothalamus
Basal Ganglia
Corpus Callosum
Olfactory bulb
The cerebral cortex is made of what kind of matter?
White matter
Gray matter
Which option connects the the particular lobe to its correct function?
Frontal lobe: colour perception
Parietal lobe: memory
Temporal lobe: Mathematical reasoning
Frontal lobe: decision making
While giving this quiz, which lobe do you think is least at work? (Choose the best option)
Frontal lobe
Parietal lobe
Temporal lobe
Occipital lobe
Face Blindness is a neurological condition where people have trouble recognising or processing other's faces. This happens due to damage in the fusiform gyrus. Based on your understanding of the functions of the 4 lobes, where should fusiform gyrus be located?
Somewhere involving temporal and parietal lobe
Somewhere involving temporal and occipital lobe
Somewhere involving frontal and parietal lobe
Dura mater, arachnoid and pia matter are the three layers of (a)
Which network identifies important stimuli that deserves attention?
The executive control network
The default mode network
The salience network
Sensation is relatively subjective, but perception is highly objective.
True
False
Stimuli below conscious threshold? (There is also a famous myth about this kind of advertising: it involves the movie theatres and lies about increased sales of popcorns)
(a)
Which Gestalt principle is this?
Closure
Proximity
Continuity
Similarity
"The green dog jump helicopter cheese on the yesterday smoodle." A patient speaks this sentence, what kind of aphasia do they potentially have?
Wernicke's
Broca's
A person hears the word "apple" and quickly knows what it means. Later, they try to say "apple" out loud but struggle to pronounce it. Which brain pathway helps with understanding the meaning, and which one helps with saying the word?
Dorsal (“how”) stream helps with speaking, and ventral (“what”) stream helps with understanding.
Ventral (“what”) stream helps with speaking, and dorsal (“how”) stream helps with understanding.
Both streams only help with speaking.
Only the ventral stream does both tasks.
Mihika knows that 300 and 500 are different numbers, yet she is not sure which number is bigger. What empirical property is Mihika NOT displaying?
Cardinality
Ordinality
Numberness
What happens in the brain when you learn a new language?
The brain reduces the number of neural pathways
Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas become less active
New neural pathways form and connections strengthen, improving language processing
The brain stops adapting after childhood
Why must reading be explicitly taught while spoken language develops naturally?
Reading is a biological specialization while speech is a cultural invention
Speech is a biological specialization, while reading is a cultural invention requiring explicit instruction
Both speech and reading are innate abilities
Neither speech nor reading needs instruction
What role does the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) play in reading?
It helps produce spoken language sounds
It processes written words regardless of font, size, or color
It stores the meanings of all known words
It translates spoken language into written form
Beyond which number does our natural enumeration abilities hit a wall?
1
2
5
4
What is the rapid, accurate, and confident judgment of numerosity for small
numbers of items (typically 1-4). It's automatic, effortless, and occurs without
conscious counting.
(a)
What does the Numerical Distance Effect (NDE) describe?
People are faster at comparing numbers that are closer together.
Reaction time increases as the numerical distance between two numbers increases.
People are faster and more accurate when comparing numbers with a larger numerical distance.
Numerical distance has no impact on reaction time during number comparison.
2 people walked in for an interview for the math club. One was asked which is larger, 2 or 12 and the other was asked which is larger, 2345 or 2687. The first person won, but the interview was later deemed as unfair. Why do you think that is?
size effect
distance effect
the positional revolution
Why do most people feel it easier to associate small numbers with their left hand?
(a) effect
A person has trouble quickly guessing if the answer to a math problem is big or small and instead has to carefully count to figure it out. This problem is likely because of damage to which part of the brain that helps us understand numbers?
Broca’s area
Hippocampus
The intraparietal sulcus (IPS) in the parietal lobe
Visual Word Form Area
Retrograde amnesia is the inability to recall events before
the amnesia began
false
true
In the famous movie Ghajini (inspired from the hollywood movie memento) why did Ghajini need tattoos to remember everything from before his accident, or as he discovered new things after his accident about the murder he was solving? (Hint: very similar to H.M.s case)
He had anterograde and retrograsde amnesia
He couldn't remember things which happened even 5 seconds ago
His procedural memory was affected
All of the above
Episodic memory involves remembering facts and concepts.
True
False
Nondeclarative memory depends on? (Hint: Non-declarative memory involves episodic memory. Think about the functions of various parts, and what parts help in learning and forming habits.)
Hippocampus and medial temporal lobe structures
Basal Ganglia and cerebellum
Both the options
Traumatic memories can sometimes get 'stuck' due to an overactive involvement of ___ leading to disorders like PTSD (Think about what happens in PTSD and how a particular traumatic memory gets tagged with an exteme amount of emotions.)
cerebellum
hippocampus
amygdala
basal ganglia
How long can working memory hold items without rehearsal? (Choose the most appropriate option.)
2 seconds
2 hours
20 minutes
20 seconds
What key concept was demonstrated by Maguire et al.’s (2000) London Taxi Driver Experiment?
(Super cool "comic chain" on the experiment someone on reddit made: https://www.reddit.com/r/psychology/comments/1fe8jo0/the_knowledge_london_taxi_cab_experiment/
Only children's brains can change in response to new experiences.
Spatial navigation training can lead to structural changes in the adult brain, particularly in the hippocampus.
The size of the hippocampus is genetically fixed and unaffected by experience.
Learning street names improves language comprehension areas in the brain.
What does Broadbent’s Filter Model propose about attention?
Filtering occurs after semantic processing of information.
All sensory inputs are processed equally regardless of their characteristics.
A physical filter selects one message based on features like pitch or loudness before meaning is processed.
Attention is divided equally among all incoming stimuli.
How do top-down and bottom-up attention differ in how they guide focus?
Top-down attention is automatic and reactive, while bottom-up attention is goal-driven.
Top-down attention is driven by goals and expectations, while bottom-up attention is triggered by salient external stimuli.
Bottom-up attention involves conscious effort, while top-down attention does not.
Both operate identically and rely solely on external cues.
What does the development of attention across the lifespan reveal about its nature?
Attention networks are fully developed at birth.
Voluntary control of attention emerges early in infancy.
Attention develops gradually, with executive control maturing significantly during school age and refining through adolescence.
Attention capacity decreases steadily from infancy to adulthood.
