The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Frank R. Wilson
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Frank R. Wilson
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
Buy The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture Lesson Plans
Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Twenty-Four-Karat Thumb.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the conscious dimension of action occur?
(a) With the unconscious thought first.
(b) There is no conscious dimension of action.
(c) With the movement itself.
(d) With the thought of moving.

2. What is the strength of a climber's grip on a rock face?
(a) Up to 80 pounds per square inch.
(b) Ups to 120 pound per square inch.
(c) There is no way to calculate that figure.
(d) Up to 50 pounds per square inch.

3. What does Henry Plotkin propose intelligence is?
(a) A learned response.
(b) A secondary heuristic.
(c) A genetically fixed amount.
(d) A primary heuristic.

4. What does Galvani discover about electrical forces?
(a) The are initiators of action.
(b) They are emitted by a muscle's contractions.
(c) They are charged either negative or positive.
(d) They are shorted out by a muscle's contractions.

5. What does Frederick Wood Jones note about the hand?
(a) It is only as good as the mind wishes it to be.
(b) It can be an instrument of good or evil.
(c) It is actually the brain in control rather than the hand.
(d) It is not as important as the tongue.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what does the word neuron derive its meaning?

2. What is the juggling riddle?

3. What is the critical significance of the paddle in Duchenne's model?

4. Up until a certain point, what separated the human hand from that of the ape's hand?

5. What does the coordination of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones do?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 365 words
(approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture Lesson Plans
Copyrights
BookRags
The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture from BookRags. (c)2024 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.