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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bad Boys, Polyliths, and the Heterotechnic Revolution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does juggling as learned and performed by Percelly provide?
(a) A way to have fun in becoming a better tennis player.
(b) An entertaining dimension to understanding the mind-body dichotomy.
(c) Good daily exercise.
(d) A way to become a professional tennis player.

2. What rule does Greenfield propose?
(a) A hierarchical rule generator.
(b) A rule that illustrates how an adult can sometimes change hand dominence.
(c) A rule that a person uses to decide what skills to develop.
(d) A rule that illustrates how a child can sometimes change hand dominence.

3. What is one thing the thumb is uniquely able to do?
(a) Hyperextend.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Move independently of any other finger.
(d) Bend at the middle knuckle.

4. According to Charles Sherrington, what are sensors to the target object?
(a) The retina and fingertips.
(b) The retina and the palm.
(c) The palm and the nerves in the cerebral cortex.
(d) The fngertips and the palm.

5. From where does Sherrington discover signals originate to cause movement?
(a) The spinal cord.
(b) The muscle itself.
(c) The brain.
(d) The blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Kathleen Gibson attribute human intelligence?

2. What helps maintain a skill that is learned?

3. How does Greenfield say she knows how a child will solve Greenfield's stick puzzle?

4. What is pad-to-side?

5. Who says that the hand and brain both speak to each other?

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