An Introduction to Neuropsychology (AQA GCSE Psychology): Exam Questions

Exam code: 8182

21 mins4 questions
1
6 marks

Outline how neurological damage from a stroke or injury can affect motor abilities and behaviour.

Refer to localisation of function in the brain in your answer.

2
5 marks

Tulving used PET scans to study possible connections between types of memory and brain activity. He concluded that different areas of the brain are active when we have semantic or episodic memories.

Evaluate Tulving’s ‘gold’ memory study.

3
6 marks

Many years ago researchers investigated the relationship between the brain and behaviour by looking at slices taken from the brains of dead people. Today scanning techniques such as fMRI scans are available.

Explain how modern scanning techniques have improved our understanding of the relationship between brain and behaviour.

4
4 marks

Outline how brain scanning techniques are used to investigate brain function.