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Showing posts with label Chapter 14. Show all posts
A symptom of right-hemisphere parietal lobe damage is the tendency to ignore the:
a. dorsal areas of the body.
b. ventral areas of the body.
c. ipsilateral side of the body and world.
*d. contralateral side of the body and world.
More typical of dyslexic people than of other people is:
*a. a bilaterally symmetrical cerebral cortex.
b. a planum temporale that is larger in the left hemisphere than the right hemisphere.
c. an overresponsive magnocellular pathway in the visual system.
d. damage to the posterior portion of the corpus callosum.
A person with anomia would have the most difficulty with:
a. reaching out to touch objects.
b. understanding written, as opposed to spoken, language.
*c. remembering the names of objects.
d. speaking rapidly and fluently.
Someone suffering from Wernicke's aphasia has difficulty:
a. reading aloud.
b. articulating speech.
c. using prepositions and conjunctions.
*d. understanding speech.
Broca's aphasia patients have difficult understanding language in that they cannot:
*a. understand a sentence if its meaning depends on word order or grammatical devices.
b. remember the meaning of nouns, especially unusual nouns.
c. understand a sentence if its meaning depends on verbs.
d. hear many of the words spoken.
Someone with Broca's aphasia has the greatest difficulty:
a. remembering the names of objects.
b. understanding written language.
*c. speaking.
d. understanding spoken language.
One way to test the hypothesis that people are biologically adapted to learn best during a critical period is to:
a. determine whether people learn a second language better than a first language.
b. compare the vocabularies of children and adults.
c. compare the grammar use of children and adults.
*d. determine whether people learn a second language if they start at various ages.
The language of children with Williams syndrome is:
a. a byproduct of their intelligence.
b. comparable to children with other forms of mental retardation.
*c. comparable to that of a normal adult's second language.
d. impossible to understand.
People in one family have a gene that seriously impairs language without decreasing overall intelligence. This observation argues AGAINST the theory that:
a. language learning is based on a "language acquisition device."
b. language evolved from a precursor ability present in other primates.
c. intelligence consists of a series of more or less separate "modules."
*d. language evolved as a byproduct of selection for overall intelligence.
Studies of nonhuman language abilities call attention to the:
a. close relationship between language and brain size.
*b. difficulty of defining language.
c. ability of many species to learn language.
d. close relationship between language and classical conditioning.
Early studies taught chimpanzees to use symbols to communicate with a computer and each other. Which of the following does NOT characterize their use of symbols?
a. They consistently used the same symbol patterns.
*b. They frequently used new and original combinations.
c. They learned to type messages to other chimps.
d. They frequently made requests.
What kind of task is most likely to require activity by just one hemisphere, instead of both?
a. visual task
*b. very simple task
c. very complicated task
d. auditory task
Temporary inactivation of the left hemisphere would interfere with language the most in people who were:
*a. left hemisphere dominant for speech.
b. right hemisphere dominant for speech.
c. bilateral dominant for speech.
d. born without a corpus callosum.
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