Question : 91. Meghan has suffered a head injury in a car accident. : 1201898

91. Meghan has suffered a head injury in a car accident. However, because she is such a dedicated teacher, she returns to teach her psychology class just a few days later. When she gets up in front of the class to lecture on hormones, she says, “Hormones . . . substances . . . pituitary . . . secreting . . . growth . . . ,” and her students look at her blankly. Meghan has probably suffered damage to which part of the brain? 
A. Broca’s area
B. The reticular formation
C. Wernicke’s area
D. The parietal lobe

92. Janet has sustained a brain injury and now has great difficulty organizing her speech. Often she speaks in incomplete sentences with each word coming out very slowly. Janet has most likely suffered damage to 
A. Broca’s area.
B. the parietal lobe.
C. the somatosensory cortex.
D. Wernicke’s area.

93. Tyra has a brain tumor that affects her language capabilities. When Tyra’s doctor asks her about a picture of a bird, Tyra responds, “Wings in the sky fly high. Soar through air with a suitcase.” Tyra’s fluent, but confused, response indicates that she most likely suffers from 
A. Broca’s aphasia.
B. cerebellar mutism.
C. Wernicke’s aphasia.
D. brain lateralization.

94. During the 1960s, a person with severe epilepsy that caused seizures in both hemispheres of the brain most likely had surgery on his or her 
A. corpus callosum.
B. cerebellum.
C. cerebrum.
D. cochlear membrane.

95. Sometimes when Samantha gets dressed in the morning, her right hand will button a shirt, and then the left hand will immediately unbutton it. She also cannot verbally identify objects in her left hand when she is blindfolded. Which part of her brain is most likely destroyed? 
A. The corpus callosum
B. Wernicke’s area
C. Broca’s area
D. The right motor cortex

96. Elliot, a split-brain patient, is participating in a research study. If a picture of a comb is presented to the right hemisphere of Elliot’s brain, he will probably 
A. be able to name the object.
B. suddenly have the urge to comb his hair.
C. be able to pick out a comb from a group of other objects by its shape.
D. describe the comb by its shape, color, and size.

97. Joan was in a psychology experiment in which the experimenter asked her to push a button when she saw a stimulus that was presented only to her left visual cortex. On some trials, Joan was asked to push the button with her right hand, and on other trials to push the button with her left hand. It took Joan longer to push the button with her left hand than with her right hand. The reason is that 
A. Joan has brain damage.
B. it takes time for information to travel across the corpus callosum.
C. information from the left visual field is harder to see.
D. Joan must be right-handed.

98. The right hemisphere gets information from the _____ side of the body and has better _____ abilities than the left hemisphere. 
A. left; logical
B. right; language
C. left; spatial
D. right; artistic

99. Identifying certain types of brain functions (language skills, for instance) as lateralized means that 
A. areas responsible for these functions are located at a uniform depth throughout the cerebral cortex.
B. all human beings possess the ability to perform these functions.
C. the entire cerebrum is involved in performing these functions.
D. they are performed most efficiently by one or the other of the two cerebral hemispheres.

100. Suppose that the left hemisphere of Ned’s brain is damaged. Ned would most likely display the greatest impairment in 
A. recognizing family members.
B. conversing with friends.
C. reading maps.
D. washing dishes with his left hand.