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

Voluntary Action

Multiple Choice Quiz



1

Which of the following actions is a rapid and inflexible response to environmental stimuli?
A)Voluntary movement.
B)Reflex.
C)Purposive movement.
D)Habit.
2

What physiologist called the motor neuron stimulation of muscles, "the final common pathway"?
A)Maurice Ravel.
B)Charles Sherrington.
C)Wilder Penfield.
D)Edward Evarts.
3

What is the hierarchical order (lowest to highest) of the levels of regulation of movement?
A)Tactics, execution, strategy.
B)Strategy, tactics, execution
C)Execution, tactics, strategy.
D)Strategy, execution, tactics.
4

Which of the following movement disorders is paralysis of the lower limbs?
A)Paraplegia.
B)Poliomyelitis.
C)Myasthenia gravis.
D)Quadriplegia.
5

Which of the following does NOT have direct involvement in voluntary movement?
A)M1.
B)Parietal lobes.
C)SMA.
D)Limbic lobe.
6

What area mediates the cortical-cortical loop involved in voluntary movement?
A)Basal ganglia.
B)M1.
C)Cerebellum.
D)PMA.
7

What area serves as a comparator of motor command to motor output?
A)Basal ganglia.
B)M1.
C)Cerebellum.
D)PMA.
8

M1 is located in the
A)postcentral gyrus.
B)prefrontal cortex.
C)precentral gyrus.
D)parietal cortex.
9

Who demonstrated the topographical organization of M1 in humans using stimulation?
A)Wilder Penfield.
B)Apostolos Georgopoulos.
C)Charles Sherrington.
D)Edward Evarts.
10

M1 neurons do NOT code for
A)force.
B)individual muscles.
C)direction.
D)a group of muscles.
11

Who discovered the population vector predicting direction of movement in monkeys?
A)Wilder Penfield.
B)Apostolos Georgopoulos.
C)Charles Sherrington.
D)Edward Evarts.
12

In an individual with severe weakness and loss of fine-motor coordination, a lesion would be located in the
A)cerebellum.
B)SMA.
C)PMA.
D)M1.
13

Which of the following is NOT a symptom of a lesion to the cerebellum?
A)Unilateral paralysis.
B)Disturbance of limb-eye coordination.
C)Impaired balance.
D)Decreased muscle tone.
14

The caudate and the putamen are collectively known as
A)globus pallidus.
B)substantia nigra.
C)external segment.
D)neostriatum.
15

Which neurotransmitter is associated with Parkinson's disease?
A)Serotonin.
B)Norepinephrine.
C)Dopamine.
D)Epinephrine.
16

Which disorder of the basal ganglia includes chorea?
A)Hemiballism.
B)Huntington's disease.
C)Ballism.
D)Parkinson's disease.
17

Who coined the term apraxia?
A)Hughlings-Jackson.
B)Steinthal.
C)Freud.
D)Liepmann.
18

What cortical area is specialized for the mediation of voluntary movement as disrupted by apraxia?
A)Right hemisphere.
B)Basal ganglia.
C)Cerebellum.
D)Left hemisphere.
19

John can stand at attention, but he can't salute. What disorder does he have?
A)Oral apraxia.
B)Limb apraxia.
C)Motor apraxia.
D)Ideational apraxia.
20

Where did Heilman and Rothi propose praxicons are represented in the brain?
A)Right parietal lobe.
B)Basal ganglia.
C)Prefrontal cortex.
D)Left parietal lobe.