A. have a smaller corpus callosum than hearing persons
B. demonstrate greater mathematical competence than hearing persons
C. process language in their left cerebral hemisphere
D. recognize facial expressions of emotion with their left rather than their right cerebral hemisphere
Related Mcqs:
- Which one of the following statements are true of the Wason selection, or four-card problem (Wason,1966)?
1. The Wason Selection Task is a good task because it produces identical results in concrete and abstract forms
2. In general, concrete versions of the task are more difficult to think about than uncluttered abstract versions.
3. Although the task is one of pure reasoning some concrete versions are easier because of how we think in certain social situations.
4. People typically pick one card correctly, but pick an inappropriate one as the second choice in the original version of the task.A. 1 & 2
B. 3 & 4
C. 1 & 4
D. 2 & 3 - When do people with BIID typically report that they first started perceiving themselves as amputees?
A. In early childhood
B. At puberty
C. After a head injury
D. During adolescence - A tone-deaf person would probably not be able to tell two musical notes apart unless they were very different. We could say that this person has a relatively large:
A. just noticeable difference
B. relative threshold
C. absolute threshold
D. detection threshold - Noam Chomsky posited that humans have a unique, inborn ability to understand the structure of language and to apply this to language learning. Chomsky called this the _______________?
A. innate capability index
B. innate surface structure ability
C. prosody index
D. language acquisition device - A hypothesis concerning the role of language is shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought is called:
A. legal- rational authority
B. Sapir- Whorf hypothesis
C. Routine activities theory
D. None of these - Phonemes are the smallest units of______in a spoken language; morphemes are the smallest units of_______in language.
A. sound; syntax
B. meaning; syntax
C. syntax; meaning
D. sound; meaning - Birth typically occurs after ____________?
A. Forty weeks conception
B. Thirty eight weeks conception
C. Four weeks conception
D. None of these - Which test of memory typically provides the fewest retrieval cues?
A. recognition
B. recall
C. relearning
D. rehearsal - The steady, rapid responding of a person playing a slot machine is an example of the pattern of responding typically generated on a_______schedule.
A. Fixed-ratio
B. variable-ratio
C. Fixed-interval
D. variable-interval - Retreat from reality by hallucinations and delusions and by social withdrawal typically characterizes:
A. somatoform disorders
B. anxiety disorders
C. psychotic disorders
D. personality disorders
