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

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

3. To what is Franz Liszt compared?
(a) Rodin.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Mozart's ability to create music at a very early age.
(d) Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest.

4. What does the Israeli physicist desire to do rather than increasing muscle strength in a paralyzed person?
(a) Return message flow from the brain as it was before paralysis.
(b) Decrease messag flow to the brain so as not to overwhelm.
(c) Increase muscle flexibility.
(d) Increase pain tolerance levels.

5. What type of intelligence does Patricia Greenfield study?
(a) Physiological intelligence.
(b) Patricia Greenfield studies human intelligence as it unfolds in adult behavior over twenty year.s
(c) Patricia Greenfield studies human intelligence as it unfolds in child behavior twenty years earlier.
(d) Coordination intelligence.

6. What is one level of communicative movement?
(a) Iconic eye movements.
(b) Sitting in a lotus position.
(c) Iconic hand gestures.
(d) Lying in a fetal position.

7. Upon what did early medicine rely for healing?
(a) Luck.
(b) Individual's constitution.
(c) Herbs.
(d) Faith.

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

9. Who calls the hidden structure of words "innate syntax"?
(a) Frederick de Saussure.
(b) Andrew Carnie.
(c) Arthur Abramson.
(d) Chomsky.

10. Who is Reed Hearon?
(a) A math professor at Yale.
(b) Wilson's co-writer.
(c) The most famous chef in the United States.
(d) The owner of LuLu's restaurant.

11. What is aphasia?
(a) A language impairment.
(b) A way of charting the areas of the brain.
(c) A motor impairment that affects the hand.
(d) A disease that limits the function of the medulla.

12. What does Peter Reynolds spend years doing in New Guinea?
(a) Studying the ancient artifacts of the extinct culture.
(b) Observing young baboons.
(c) Observing gorillas.
(d) Observing chimpanzees.

13. What is BachTur?
(a) There is no such term.
(b) The way music enables speech.
(c) The musical equivalent of ChomTur.
(d) The way music stimulates the parts of the brain the deal with language.

14. What do both knapping and rock climbing require?
(a) Just relaxations.
(b) Smooth and non-smooth muscles.
(c) Just contractions.
(d) Contractions and relaxations.

15. How is the dominant hand theoretically controlled?
(a) Use.
(b) Genes.
(c) The number of nerve endings in each hand.
(d) They have no concrete evidence as to how it's determined.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Calvin think the female ape cradles her baby in its left arm?

2. What develops early in the brain of a child?

3. How many levels does the continuum of communicative movements have?

4. What does Feldenkrais facilitate?

5. What can cause reduced bodily movement?

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