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Principles of Human Neuropsychology
G. Dennis Rains, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Visual Recognition

Multiple Choice Quiz



1

What disorder did Oliver Sacks describe in the case of Dr. P?
A)Visual agnosia.
B)Visual apraxia.
C)Cortical blindness.
D)Visual aphasia.
2

What term did Herman Munk coin to describe the impairments in the dogs he had lesioned?
A)Imperception.
B)Agnosia.
C)Apperception.
D)Seelenblindheit.
3

Who classified agnosia into two categories, apperceptive and associative?
A)Oliver Sacks.
B)Herman Munk.
C)Sigmund Freud.
D)Heinrich Lissauer.
4

According to the previous question's classification system, what is most impaired in associative agnosia?
A)Overall perception.
B)Assignment of meaning.
C)Visual acuity.
D)Contrast sensitivity.
5

Who discovered that association cortex was myelinated during the course of postnatal development?
A)Herman Munk.
B)Gottfried Leibniz.
C)Paul Flechsig.
D)Eberhard Bay.
6

The criticism that impairment in object recognition is always the result of impairment in elementary processing was posed by
A)Gottfried Leibniz.
B)Paul Flechsig.
C)Eberhard Bay.
D)Elizabeth Warrington.
7

Which of the following is NOT used to test visual acuity?
A)Efron Squares Test.
B)Two-point discrimination.
C)Contrast sensitivity.
D)Snellen Chart.
8

What condition is most likely to produce deficits in visual acuity and shape discrimination?
A)Apperceptive agnosia.
B)Associative agnosia.
C)Cortical blindness.
D)Prosopagnosia.
9

The inability to see a camouflaged object in a normal person is analogous to
A)Apperceptive agnosia.
B)Associative agnosia.
C)Cortical blindness.
D)Prosopagnosia.
10

A patient is able to match pictures of different views on the Unusual Views Test, but not able to name the item. What type of impairment does this patient have?
A)Apperceptive agnosia.
B)Associative agnosia.
C)Cortical blindness.
D)Prosopagnosia.
11

Who introduced the term prosopagnosia?
A)Warrington.
B)Farah.
C)Bodamer.
D)Dejarine.
12

Who would not show a word superiority effect?
A)A prosopagnosic.
B)An alexic.
C)An illiterate.
D)A stereoagnosic.
13

What does Farah's idea of dorsal simultanagnosia best explain
A)Prosopagnosia.
B)Alexia.
C)Cortical blindness.
D)Hemianopia.
14

What does Farah's idea of ventral simultanagnosia best explain?
A)Prosopagnosia.
B)Alexia.
C)Cortical blindness.
D)Hemianopia.
15

According to Geschwind's disconnection model, one would expect to find a lesion for visual agnosia in the
A)bilateral occipital lobes.
B)left temporo-parietal cortex.
C)bilateral temporo-parietal cortex.
D)bilateral parieto-occipital cortex.
16

Assigning words to an object : assigning meaning to an object :: _____________
A)Alexia : Agnosia.
B)Optic aphasia : Alexia.
C)Optic aphasia : Agnosia.
D)Alexia : Optic Aphasia.
17

A loss of "engrams for objects" can be attributed to which theory of visual agnosia?
A)Disconnection model.
B)Symbolic search model.
C)Massively parallel constraint-satisfaction model.
D)Simultanagnosia model.
18

Which set of neurons represent different entities?
A)Local representation.
B)Grandmother cell.
C)Distributed representation.
D)Building block cell.
19

To see the Kanizsa triangle, which perceptual ability is needed?
A)Perceptual constancy.
B)Shape constancy.
C)Subjective contour.
D)Perceptual closure.
20

What term did Zeki propose to revive to describe agnosia?
A)Apperception.
B)Imperception.
C)Seelenblindheit.
D)Aphemia.








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