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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Hand, Eye and Sky.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What helps maintain a skill that is learned?
(a) The memory portion of the brain.
(b) Nothing; once it's learned it is always available.
(c) Visualizing the skill daily.
(d) Practice.

2. What does the addition and transport of weight by the upper body change?
(a) The buoyancy of the body.
(b) The speed at which the body can move.
(c) The ability to play a sport.
(d) The center of gravity.

3. What supports the conscious dimension of action?
(a) The conscious intent to move.
(b) The unconscious interaction of the neuromuscular system.
(c) The unconscious image of movement.
(d) The brain.

4. What does Merlin Donald's theory of cultural and cognitive evolution propose?
(a) The human body developed in a three-stage process.
(b) The human brain developed in a three-stage process.
(c) The groupings of tribes developed in a two-stage process.
(d) The human brain developed in a stop-and-go process.

5. What is the critical significance of the paddle in Duchenne's model?
(a) It allows for greater rotation.
(b) It sends simultaneous signals that result in the interplay of movement.
(c) It leaves one muscle group balanced.
(d) It leaves one muscle group unbalanced.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does Sherrington discover signals originate to cause movement?

2. According to Wilson, what did the expansion of territory by hominids require?

3. What operator has to do to anticipate load weight and wind changes?

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

5. What does the neocortex size reliably predict?

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