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81. Joella was rollerblading when a cat jumped right in front of her, causing her to trip and fall. When she fell, she partially landed on the front side of her head near her forehead. Shortly afterwards, Joella exhibited symptoms similar to that of Phineas Gage. Which lobe would have been most affected by this fall?

a) frontal

b) temporal

c) parietal

d) occipital

82. Phineas Gage tragically had a tamping iron propelled through his head. Both left and right sides of the prefrontal cortex were severely damaged. As a result of the accident, Phineas Gage ___________.

a) died from his injuries

b) suffered loss of his arms and legs

c) lost his sense of hearing

d) suffered a change in personality

83. Ito was driving through a rough part of town late at night when a stray bullet hit the front side of his head. Both the left and right sides of his prefrontal cortex were severely damaged. As a result of the accident, Ito most likely ___________.

a) died from his injuries

b) suffered loss of his arms and legs 

c) lost his sense of hearing 

d) suffered a change in personality 

84. Ever since Zack suffered a brain injury by falling from a ladder, his wife has continued to tell the doctor that his personality has changed. He used to be fun loving and carefree, but he is now more critical and yells at his children for seemingly little reason. Zack is likely to have suffered damage to the _______ of his cortex.

a) occipital lobe

b) parietal lobe

c) temporal lobe

d) frontal lobe

85. Since Norma is a split-brain patient, we can infer that she likely has a history of ________.

a) mental illness

b) severe epilepsy

c) anosognosia

d) frontal lobe damage

86. Pat has decided to undergo surgery to treat her severe epilepsy. Consequently, her doctors will use a surgical procedure during which they will sever her ________.

a) parietal lobe

b) corpus callosum

c) cerebral cortex

d) subcortical structure

87. In trying to determine whether the left hemisphere constructs stories to “fill in gaps” in its knowledge, Gazzaniga and LeDoux (1978) used all of the following techniques in their case study except ________.

a) presenting a picture of a snow scene and a chicken’s claw simultaneously to the right hemisphere

b) showing several other pictures and choosing which of them was implied by the stimulus

c) asking the patient what he had seen and why he had made the selections

d) having the patient use his right hand to select a picture of a chicken, and his left hand to select a picture of a shovel

88. The study by Gazzaniga and LeDoux (1978) reviewed in your text was conducted to address which of the following general issues?

a) the role of the frontal lobe in auditory processing

b) the role of the parietal lobe in visual processing

c) the practical effects of the division of the brain into two hemispheres

d) the difference between right- and left-handedness in processing spatial information

89. Traditionally, many have made the analogy that the left brain is to the right brain as ________.

a) analytical is to perceptual

b) verbal is to analytical

c) intuitive is to perceptual

d) intuitive is to analytical

90. The forebrain includes the ________.

a) medulla

b) hippocampus

c) pons

d) reticular activating system