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

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 B

Frank R. Wilson
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Puppet Lessons from Alexandria and Dusseldorf.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Robin Dunbar?
(a) A professor of genealogy.
(b) A professor of anthropology.
(c) A professor of archeology.
(d) A professor of biology.

2. What does the author say is a choreographed skill?
(a) Making breakfast while on the phone and reading the newspaper.
(b) Getting the children ready for school while planning your day at the office.
(c) Making sure a person performs all their morning abulations.
(d) The way the hand performs thousands of activities.

3. According to Wilson, what did the expansion of territory by hominids require?
(a) Group cooperation.
(b) Good leadership.
(c) Inequality of the sexes.
(d) Equality of the sexes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the ability to design and manufacture tools considered by Wilson?

2. What does the neocortex size reliably predict?

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

4. How does the conscious dimension of action occur?

5. What does Galvani discover about electrical forces?

(see the answer key)

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