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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an example of a secondary heuristic?
(a) A primary heuristic that is used in a non-primary way.
(b) Psychic abilities.
(c) Using one thing such as fingers to perform something that it normally would not do.
(d) Human language.

2. What does Wilson say is an emotional experience?
(a) Completing a perfect, nine-course meal.
(b) Food.
(c) Learning a new skill.
(d) Interacting with an aclaimed chef.

3. Who coins the term ChomTur?
(a) Michael Chyet.
(b) Noal Chomsky.
(c) Frank Wilson.
(d) Frederick de Saussure.

4. What did the fruits and flowers provide?
(a) Ground food.
(b) Treetop food.
(c) Shade.
(d) Nectar.

5. How many Feldenkrais sessions does it take to effect a change in a woman with torsion dystonia?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

6. What often dictates which hand is dominate?
(a) The baby deciding to use one or the other more often.
(b) The larger of the two hands tends to be dominent.
(c) Social pressures.
(d) The smaller of the two hands tends to be dominent.

7. What is ChomTur?
(a) A term for specialized control mechanisms of thought.
(b) A rubric for studying brain wave patterns.
(c) A rubric for studying speech patterns.
(d) The term for specialized control mechanisms of language.

8. What does the Israeli physicist discover?
(a) Quarks move faster when someone thinks about their doing so.
(b) Quarks are not in this dimension.
(c) Some movements are mimicked on the micro level.
(d) Certain movements can lead a person with practice to move more smoothly and efficiently.

9. What is Jack restoring?
(a) A 1949 Mercury.
(b) A 1954 Dodge.
(c) A 1956 Chevy.
(d) A 1944 Dodge.

10. What helps the high school teacher?
(a) Feldenkrais.
(b) A government grant.
(c) Determination.
(d) Her husband.

11. What is a polylith?
(a) An object made completely of fibers.
(b) A drawing that is three dimensional.
(c) An object made of joined units or subassemblies.
(d) A drawing with several layers.

12. What skills does Wilson say today's warriors learn?
(a) Hunting.
(b) Fishing and hunting.
(c) Those needed to wield skillets, pots and pans after chopping and slicing in kitchens.
(d) Hunting and gathering.

13. How does Greenfield say she knows how a child will solve Greenfield's stick puzzle?
(a) By knowing the child's age.
(b) By observing which foot the child starts out on when walking.
(c) By knowing if the child can read.
(d) By observing which thumb is larger.

14. How does Broca identify an area in the brain that controls speech?
(a) By small electrical charges administered to different areas of the brain.
(b) By a drug that changes the speech area of the brain.
(c) By examining an MRI in a person who has never been able to speak.
(d) By examining the brain of a stroke patient who is left speechless.

15. What does Jack Schaefer do?
(a) Operates a frame shop.
(b) Builds homes.
(c) Designs engines.
(d) Is a photographer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must the magician do for success?

2. Upon what did early medicine rely for healing?

3. What is a second language requirement?

4. Why don't the ground mammals at this time eat the fruit in the trees?

5. What type of intelligence does Patricia Greenfield study?

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