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4. While studying brain function, it is often useful to think of development in terms of ____________,
which is the perspective of _____________________.
a. cognition; cognitive neuroscience c. blood flow; magnetic resonance imaging
b. survival; evolution d. dysfunction; psychopathology
ANS: B DIF: Difficult REF: 1.1 A Historical Perspective
OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Analyzing
5. Which stance would most likely hold an assumption that physical elements of the brain are responsible
for the conscious mind?
a. monism c. dualism
b. behaviorism d. relativism
ANS: A DIF: Medium REF: 1.1 A Historical Perspective
OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Analyzing
6. René Descartes posited that the mind was separate from the body. However, he implicated a single
brain structure, the pineal gland, as having what function?
a. regulating feelings and emotions c. moderating cognitive processes
b. connecting the mind and the body d. adjusting behavior
ANS: B DIF: Easy REF: 1.1 A Historical Perspective
OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Remembering
7. Considering the perspective recommended for approaching cognitive neuroscience, which of the
following would best explain how a cognitive function may have developed?
a. learning and reward c. neurological dysfunction
b. integration with technology d. hunting and gathering
ANS: D DIF: Difficult REF: 1.1 A Historical Perspective
OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Analyzing
8. A central issue of modern cognitive neuroscience is whether specific human cognitive abilities
a. arise from networks of brain areas working together.
b. are determined by the shape and size of the human skull or the brain beneath.
c. are best studied using the scientific method.
d. can be best identified using the Golgi silver method of staining or fMRI.
ANS: A DIF: Medium REF: 1.2 The Brain Story
OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Understanding
10. Phrenologists believed that the contour of the skull could provide valuable information about an
individual’s cognitive capacities and personality traits. This approach was based on the assumption
that
a. skull protrusions are caused by disproportionate development of the brain areas beneath
them, which are responsible for different specific functions.
b. certain traits such as aggressiveness lead to life experiences and injuries that alter the
shape of the skull in specific ways.
c. life experiences and injuries that alter the shape of the skull in specific ways lead to certain
traits, such as aggressiveness.
d. the development of the skull bones directly influences the configuration of the soft brain
areas beneath them, which are responsible for different specific functions.
ANS: A DIF: Difficult REF: 1.2 The Brain Story
OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Evaluating
13. The view known as aggregate field theory, which stated that the whole brain participates in behavior,
is most associated with
a. Broca. c. Brodmann.
b. Hughlings Jackson. d. Flourens.
ANS: D DIF: Easy REF: 1.2 The Brain Story
OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Remembering
14. The key observation leading John Hughlings Jackson to propose a topographical organization in the
cerebral cortex was that
a. speech disturbances could be identified by left-hemisphere lesions.
b. the two hemispheres of the brain served different functions.
c. seizures begin in a localized region of the cortex.
d. focal brain damage causes specific behavioral deficits.
ANS: C DIF: Difficult REF: 1.2 The Brain Story
OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Analyzing
16. Giovanni visits his local phrenologist. What is this person likely to tell him?
a. You are a domineering person.
b. Your father was a very domineering person.
c. Your brother is a domineering person.
d. Your mother was a very domineering person.
ANS: A DIF: Medium REF: 1.2 The Brain Story
OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Applying
17. The view developed by Marie Jean Pierre Flourens, based on the idea that processes like language and
memory cannot be localized within circumscribed brain regions, was known as
a. the neuron doctrine. c. rationalism.
b. aggregate field theory. d. the law of effect.
ANS: B DIF: Easy REF: 1.2 The Brain Story
OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Remembering
18. John Hughlings Jackson proposed a ________organization in the cerebral cortex, based on his work
with people with ________.
a. holistic; aphasia c. topographic; epilepsy
b. topographic; aphasia d. holistic; epilepsy
ANS: C DIF: Medium REF: 1.2 The Brain Story
OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Understanding
19. ________ was one of the first brain scientists to realize that specific cognitive functions can be
localized to specific parts of the brain and that many different functional regions can take part in a
given behavior.
a. Broca c. Flourens
b. Hughlings Jackson d. Brodmann
ANS: B DIF: Medium REF: 1.2 The Brain Story
OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Remembering
20. Which 19th-century scientist suggested that the frontal lobe contributes to language and speech
production?
a. Flourens c. Broca
b. Wernicke d. Brodmann
ANS: C DIF: Medium REF: 1.2 The Brain Story
OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Remembering
21. Patient Leborgne was nicknamed "Tan" because that was the only word he could utter. Leborgne had
developed an aphasia due to a lesion in which area of the brain?
a. frontal cortex c. cerebellum
b. Broca’s area d. Wernicke’s area
ANS: B DIF: Easy REF: 1.2 The Brain Story
OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Remembering
22. Which of the following things would have been the most difficult for the famous individual studied by
Paul Broca to do, compared to before his stroke?
a. listening to a piano recital c. reading a book aloud
b. appreciating a painting d. playing a game of cards
ANS: C DIF: Medium REF: 1.2 The Brain Story
OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Applying
23. Which of the following things would have been the most difficult for the famous individual described
by Carl Wernicke to do, compared to before his stroke?
a. understanding a speech c. singing a song
b. painting a picture d. riding a horse
ANS: A DIF: Medium REF: 1.2 The Brain Story
OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Applying
24. Wernicke was an early researcher who suggested that the ________ contributes to language
comprehension.
a. right frontotemporal area c. right temporoparietal area
b. left frontotemporal area d. left temporoparietal area
ANS: D DIF: Medium REF: 1.2 The Brain Story
OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Applying
26. As a first approximation, individuals with damage to the left inferior frontal lobe tend to have more
difficulty with ________, whereas individuals with damage to the left posterior temporal lobe tend to
have more difficulty with ________.
a. fine motor control; the sense of touch
b. the sense of touch; fine motor control
c. the production of language; the perception of language
d. the perception of language; the production of language
ANS: C DIF: Medium REF: 1.2 The Brain Story
OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Understanding
27. One reason that early research on specific human cognitive capacities and the brain areas that are
responsible for them developed rather slowly before the 20th century is that
a. most early investigators were limited to postmortem studies to localize lesions.
b. investigators did not know the brain was separated into two hemispheres until the
20th century.
c. most early investigators focused on studying the brain–behavior relationship in animals
rather than in humans.
d. there was little interest in this field until the 20th century.
ANS: A DIF: Medium REF: 1.2 The Brain Story
OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Understanding
28. Korbinian Brodmann used ________ techniques to document 52 regions of the brain that differed in
________.
a. phrenological; cytoarchitectonics c. tissue staining; cytoarchitectonics
b. phrenological; chronometrics d. tissue staining; chronometrics
ANS: C DIF: Easy REF: 1.2 The Brain Story
OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Remembering
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“Yes,” she returned; “I have a swelled face.”
“How sorry I am!” said the soldier sympathetically, “for I came this
afternoon in the hope of hearing you sing.”
“And so you shall,” returned the girl kindly. “You shall not go away
disappointed.” And, taking the bandage from her face, she sang
song after song to the fascinated General.
The progress of the courtship was swift, and the marriage was
celebrated with great magnificence in the palatial abode of Queen
Maria Cristina in Paris, with the attendance of representatives of the
most distinguished families of France and Spain.
When General Narvaez returned to Madrid he became Prime
Minister of Spain.
Unfortunately, the marriage did not prove a happy one, and,
indeed, it would have been difficult for anyone to live peacefully with
the irascible Spaniard. This irascibility was seen at the funeral of
General Manso de Zuñiga, who had died in the expedition against
Prim, in the mountains of Toledo. General Narvaez was chief
mourner on the occasion, as the deceased officer had been husband
of Doña Valentina Bouligni, a lady of great importance at this epoch,
with whom he was connected; and the Bishop of Pharsalia was
master of the ceremonies.
At a certain point in the function the order was given to kneel.
But, probably absorbed in some knotty State question, the Duke of
Valencia still stood. Upon this the Bishop quickly approached the
grandee, and said:
“Kneel down, kneel down!”
“But I don’t want to kneel,” returned the General petulantly, and
so he remained standing for the rest of the service.
G E N E R A L N A RVA E Z
When she came to Madrid as the wife of the great General, the
Duchess of Valencia was appointed Lady-in-Waiting to Queen
Isabella, and she never failed in her loyalty to the dynasty which was
in power when she came to the country of her adoption by marriage.
Many years later she was in an hotel in Switzerland, where she
purposed making a long stay, when Don Carlos happened to come
to the same hotel, accompanied by his secretary. As the Duchess of
Valencia was unacquainted with the Pretender to the throne of
Spain, she wondered who the imperious-looking new arrival could
be, who was greeted so respectfully by everybody. Her curiosity was
soon satisfied, for the gentleman’s secretary presented himself
before her to say that the Duke of Madrid begged the honour to pay
his respects to her.
The message filled the Duchess with dismay, for, although she
held the Princes of the blood in great respect, she had no intention of
receiving one who disputed the throne with the reigning Queen.
So, summoning all her dignity to her aid, she said, in a tone of icy
politeness:
“Tell the Duke of Madrid that I am very sorry not to have the
honour of receiving his visit, but to-morrow I leave for Paris.”
And in effect the lady left the hotel on the morrow, and thus the
meeting of one of the oldest and most valued Ladies-in-Waiting with
Don Carlos was avoided.
Isabella certainly never expected that she would be dethroned,
for a few weeks before the revolution of September, 1868, the
celebrated General Tacon, Duke of the Union of Cuba, announced
the forthcoming marriage of his daughter Carolina with the Marquis
Villadarías, of the première noblesse, and a perfect type of a
Spanish grandee, and she said: “I congratulate her sincerely on her
engagement; but,” she added sadly, “for myself I am sorry, as I shall
see her no more at Court.” The Queen here referred to the well-
known Carlist opinions of the Marquis Villadarías, which would have
made it impossible to receive the Marchioness at the palace if she
had remained there.
So Isabella II. was dethroned in 1868, and she can truly be said
to have been the victim of circumstances. From the moment King
Ferdinand died his daughter had been the object of intrigue and
ambition. Whilst our Queen Victoria was carefully educated and
drilled in high principles, Isabella was the prey of those who wished
to rise to power by her favour. Ministers made love to the Sovereign
instead of discussing the welfare of the nation; flowery speeches on
patriotism meant merely the gratification of the orator’s vanity to be
remarked by Her Majesty. Personal advancement was the end and
aim of those in the Government, and thus poor Isabella’s
susceptibilities were worked upon to an awful extent.
It is well known that General Serrano, who might have been
thought to have the welfare of his country at heart, gained an undue
influence over the Queen by means of her affections, and fomented
to a great extent the matrimonial differences between her and her
husband. Generous to a degree, Isabella paid the debts of this
courtier twice, and yet it was this same General who was the first to
have her hurled from the royal palace.
When the great Canning visited Madrid, Bulwer Lytton showed
him at a Court ball the many women who were the favourites of the
Ministers, and there was, indeed, hardly a statesman who would not
sacrifice principles to the pleas of his mistress. It was at this Court,
steeped in immorality, that Isabella was brought up with little or no
knowledge of right and wrong, and even in her marriage she was a
victim to the intrigues and ambitions of other Courts of Europe as
well as those of her own. She was, in fact, a scapegoat of the nation.
Harassed and in desperation at being pressed on to a miserable
marriage destitute of all that could justify it, Isabella, after one of
those long and fruitless discussions with her mother, once addressed
a letter to our Queen Victoria; but in a pure Court like that of England
little idea could be formed of the stagnant atmosphere of the Spanish
palace from which the poor young Queen sent forth her plaint.
Beyond the Court raged the stormy discontent of the country, which
had been thwarted for more than thirty years of the fulfilment of its
constitutional rights promised by Ferdinand VII. as the condition of
his return to the throne of Spain.
Whilst Queen Victoria was daily increasing in the knowledge of
constitutional rights which are the base of a Sovereign’s power, poor
Isabella’s Prime Ministers resigned at any moment in pique or
jealousy of some other politician, and the people grew daily more
discontented at finding the Parliament was a farce, and it meant
neither the progress of the land nor the protection of the people.
Bulwer Lytton was constantly sending despatches to England
about the shortcomings of Isabella II. as a woman, but he seemed to
lay no stress on the cause of her failure as a Queen. Under proper
conditions Isabella doubtless would have been a good woman and a
great Queen, but choked with the weeds of intrigue she was lost.
Undisciplined and uneducated, the poor Queen fell a victim to what,
if properly directed, would have been virtues instead of vices.
The marriage to which Isabella was forced by intrigue was, of
course, the greatest evil which could have befallen such an
impulsive, warm-hearted girl, who knew no more how to turn a deaf
ear to a claimant for her favour than to keep her purse shut to the
plea of an unfortunate beggar.
The Right Hon. Henry Lytton Bulwer wrote a little later from the
British Embassy at Madrid to the Court of St. James’s, saying that he
“looked at the Queen’s conduct as the moral result of the alliance
she had been more or less compelled to contract, and he regarded
her rather with interest and pity than blame or reproach.”
Isabel’s natural intuition of our Queen Victoria’s good heart
prompted her letters to her. They were sent by a private hand, and
who knows what evils might have been prevented in the Court of
Spain if the long journey, so formidable in those days, had not placed
the sister-Queens so far apart?
Espartero’s plea for Isabel to marry Don Enrique de Assisi, the
man of her heart, met no support in a Court torn with intrigue, and
the sad, bad story of Isabel doubtless had its source in the tragedy of
an unhappy marriage. At the plea of a persistent wooer, who knew
that the Queen had the right of dissolving a Ministry, a Government
would fall; and as the station of her favourites became lower and
lower, as time went on the ill-regulated Sovereign had a Government
as undependable as her friends.
Treachery was the keynote of the Court of Spain, and some of
the leaders of the revolution were those who had used the
Sovereign’s ignorance and foolhardiness to their own ends. In such
an atmosphere of untruth and treachery such men as Espartero,
Prim, etc., could play no enduring part. Hardly had Espartero swept
the Court clean of the Regency of Queen Maria Cristina than his fall
was encompassed by O’Donnell, his rival. The flagrant falsification of
the Parliamentary election returns—which is still the cankerworm of
the country—was the check to all progress. Count San Luis made a
primitive effort for the reform of the elections; he suggested that the
names of the candidates as deputies should be put in a bag, and
drawn out by a child blindfolded, for the law of chance seemed to
him better than the custom of deception.
Isabella’s acts of generosity are still quoted with admiration at the
royal palace of Madrid by those who served her as Queen.
Four hundred girls owed their marriage dots to Isabella, and it
was the fathers of these four hundred royally endowed brides who
treacherously worked for her expulsion.
One day, hearing the story of the penury of a clever man of
letters, Isabella commanded 20,000 francs to be sent to him. The
administrator of her finances, thinking the Queen could hardly know
how much money this sum represented, had twenty notes of 1,000
francs each changed into small money, and put out on a table by
which she had to pass.
“What is all this money for?” asked Isabella, when she saw it
spread out to view.
“It is the money for the man of letters, and this shows Your
Majesty how large is the sum of 20,000 francs.”
“So much the better,” was the prompt reply; and the courtier saw
it was not by proving the amount of the boon that he could check his
Sovereign in her generous actions.
A Court official at Madrid, who has been sixty years in office at
the palace, told me he often saw Isabella take off her bracelets, and
give them to the beggars who pressed upon her as she crossed the
courtyard of the royal domain.
“And who could help loving her?” said the old courtier, with tears
in his eyes; “I know I could not.”
Caught in the darkness of ignorance and intrigue, Isabella was
naturally enraged at the revolution. When her son Alfonso was
nearly made captive by the Carlists at Lucar, she said: “I would
rather my Alfonso be a prisoner of the Carlists than a captive of the
revolutionists.”
Isabella had a faithful friend in the Marquis of Grizalba, and he
said to Croze:[18]
“It is the loss of faith which causes our woes; the charm of death
has been destroyed with the hope of a hereafter. But Spain will die
like a gentleman.”
[18] The author of “La Vie intime d’Alfonse XIII.”
EMILIO CASTELAR
1873–1874