SocialWorkCoursesOnline.com

Courses for Mental Health Professionals

Home

Courses

Help

Secure Attachment and Right Brain Development - Test
by Allan N. Schore, Ph.D.

Please note that printing this page does not constitute proof of completion of the course. After successfully completing this test, you may purchase your Certificate of Completion and print it immediately or have it mailed to you.

Back to Course

1. Which of the following is true?	Help
The human brain growth spurt is at least 1/2 postnatal The human brain growth spurt begins in the second trimester in utero The human brain growth spurt continues to about 18-to-24-months-of-age The human brain growth spurt continues into adolescence

2. The concept of parcellation applies to:	Help
The activity-dependent fine tuning of connections and pruning of surplus circuitry of the developing brain The genetic encoding of brain circuits A learning mechanism of infancy An early forming defense

3. The scientific study of emotions was established in:	Help
Darwin's Origin of the Species Freud's Interpretation of Dreams Darwin's The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology

4. Which of the following statements about catecholamines is incorrect?	Help
They regulate brain state they regulate energy metabolism They mediate trophic growth promoting functions They are mainly produced cortically

5. Affect bursts refers to:	Help
Dysregulated traumatic emotions Nonverbal expressions of synchronized facial and vocal activity triggered by an external stimulus Episodes of explosive rage, triggered by a misattunement A measure of emotional learning

6. According to Buck spontaneous communication specifically refers to	Help
Rapid verbal learning Empathy Fast voluntary behavior A conversation between limbic systems

7. The burst firings of what types of neurons have been associated with reward and emotionality?	Help
Dopamine Noradrenaline Serotonin GABA

8. The concept of a hierarchically organized brain was first introduced by	Help
Freud Pavlov Darwin Hughlings-Jackson

9. Which cortical sensory system rapidly develops at 8 weeks?	Help
Visual Olfactory Gustatory Vestibular

10. In the first year joint attention first appears	Help
In the first quarter In the second quarter In the third quarter In the fourth quarter

11. Which is not a function of the orbitofrontal cortex?	Help
Expression of voluntary control of emotions Control of autonomic responses associated with emotional events Highest level of control of behavior, especially in relation to emotion Emotional control

12. Which brain region mediates the encoding of short term nonverbal memory and retrieval?	Help
Right superior frontal Right inferior frontal Left superior frontal Left inferior frontal

13. Which of the following statements is true?	Help
The right anterior temporal lobe is larger than the left from early infancy The right hemisphere, more so than the left, is deeply connected into the ANS Arousal systems are right-lateralized All of the above

14. Which of the following statements is true?	Help
The right hemisphere is faster than the left in performing valence-dependent, automatic, pre-attentive appraisals of emotional facial expressions The right hemisphere is faster than the left in assessing visual or auditory emotional communicative signals. The right cortex is responsive to the negative emotional/motivational aspects of pain. All of the above

15. The vagal circuit of emotion regulation is:	Help
Lateralized to the left side of the brain Lateralized to the right side of the brain Equally distributed in both hemispheres Only distributed subcortically

16. According to Adolphs recognizing emotions requires	Help
Right motor cortex representations Left motor cortex representations Right somatosensory representations Left somatosensory representations

17. Intutitve thinking is now thought to be	Help
A left brain process An explicit cognitive process A rational, analytic thought process A right brain process

18. Recent studies show that the right hemisphere is dominant for:	Help
Processing prosodic information Comprehension of language and lexical emotional stimuli Communicative pragmatics All of the above

19. Spear's work shows that	Help
Trauma interferes with brain development The brain undergoes a significant reorganization during adolescence Animals also experience emotions The right brain processes facial expressions

20. Which is not a function of the right hemisphere?	Help
Control of voluntary behavior Mediation of emotional-imagistic processes in moral development Cerebral representation of one's own past and the activation of autobiographical memory Establishment of a "personally relevant universe"

21. According to Luria,	Help
Damage to the right brain is associated with aphasia The right hemisphere is dominant for autobiographical memory The right hemisphere is dominant for attachment The right hemisphere is primarily involved with the analysis of direct information received from the body

22. Salovey's work has been on	Help
Right brain damage Emotional development Emotional intelligence All of the above

23. Which of the following statements is true?	Help
The right hemisphere ends its maturation in the second year The left hemisphere ends its maturation in the second year The right hemisphere continues its maturation over the lifespan The right hemisphere ends its maturation in adolescence

24. Tucker asserts that:	Help
Culture impacts mainly verbal skills Culture impacts brain systems involved in emotional communication Cultural learning mainly impacts language centers in the left hemisphere All of the above

	© Copyright 2004-2010 by SocialWorkCoursesOnline.com, Inc. All rights reserved.

Secure Attachment and Right Brain Development - Test by Allan N. Schore, Ph.D.

Secure Attachment and Right Brain Development - Test
by Allan N. Schore, Ph.D.