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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the dominant hand theoretically controlled?

2. Who is the author of Awareness Through Movement?

3. What is another thing today's chef must have?

4. What does the beginning of this chapter say the hand been used throughout its long history?

5. How does Broca identify an area in the brain that controls speech?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one of medicine's oldest links and how does it work?

2. Upon what does early medicine rely?

3. What area of the brain seems to be specialized for language and for how long has this are been adapted for language?

4. What does Feldenkrais say about how parents can inhibit their child's abilities?

5. Who is Jeanne Bamberger and what does Wilson write about her work?

6. Who is Paul Broca and for what is he known?

7. What type of therapy is used in many cultures and to what does it go back?

8. How has the hand been used throughout its long history?

9. Who is Patricia Greenfield and what does she theorize?

10. What does Plotkin say about secondary heuristics?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Anatomically, ape and human hands have been, until recently, considered functionally equivalent by anthropologists. The prehuman arm, however, was considered functionally and anatomically different metaphorically by analysis to a construction crane and its operator.

1. Explain the metaphor of the prehuman being related to a crane. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Explain what part of the body is the crane operator in the above metaphor and how it relates to the use of the hand. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

3. Discuss the following statement in relation to modern human society. When the forelimbs were relieved of the duty to walk on and support body weight, the brain enabled them to become functional in many other areas and skills. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Wilson claims the brain and musculoskeletal systems evolve by changing structure and function over time, the bipedal gait and upper limb changes are characteristic of the hominid line distinct from primates, and the driving force of hominid brain evolution is the brain and society as hominids expand their range beyond the jungle into other habitats.

1. Explain what Wilson means by the brain and musculoskeletal systems changing structure and function. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Discuss, in depth, how the bipedal gait and upper limbs differ between hominids and apes. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

3. Discuss reasons you think expanding the range of habitats made the hominid more intelligent. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Hands can learn to function in a complementary partnership, become an articulate organ with which to express oneself and associate complex motor linkages of hand and brain.

1. Give three examples of hands working as complementary partners and explain, in depth, those examples. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. What does the author mean by the following statement? Hands can become an articulate organ with which to express itself. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

3. What does the author mean by the following statement? Hands can associate complex motor linkages of hand and brain. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

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