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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. What is a "laterality quotient"?
2. Upon what did early medicine rely for healing?
3. How many Feldenkrais sessions does it take to effect a change in a woman with torsion dystonia?
4. What level is the American Sign Language classified as?
5. In what way does Yves Guiard propose both hands perform?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Wilson say about stone knapping?
2. What does Wilson say about the skills of musical virtuosos?
3. Explain the studies that are conducted by a joint effort of University of New Mexico and Gallaudet University?
4. Describe Peter Reynolds work.
5. What is the title of Feldenkrais' book and what does the book claim?
6. What type of therapy is used in many cultures and to what does it go back?
7. Who is Moshe Feldenkrais and what does he discover?
8. Why does Wilson bring up his friend Jack Schaefer?
9. What does William Calvin believe about female apes?
10. What does eating at LuLu teach Wilson?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Greenfield proposes a hierarchical rule generator in the human brain that overcomes naive childhood impulses. She claims to know how a child will solve her stick puzzle simply by knowing the child's age. The MIT Professor Jeanne Bamberger corroborates Greenfield's opinion referring to a "felt path" that she describes as "exactly how chimps would do it." Older children pass the "chimp stage" so that by eleven they are not orderly solvers but improvisers who behave with intelligence.
1. Do you think human children are as predictable as Greenfield asserts? Why or why not? Use examples from the text to support your answer.
2. The MIT Professor Jeanne Bamberger corroborates Greenfield's opinion referring to a "felt path" that she describes as "exactly how chimps would do it." What do you think is meant by this statement. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. Explain why improvising in solving problems is a higher form of intelligence than being orderly in solving a problem. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Wilson has cited a number of people in this book. Discuss he following:
1. Choose three people whom Wilson mentions positively and give a brief idea of his opinions about those three people (or stereotypes). Use examples from The Hand to support your answer.
2. Choose three people whom Wilson mentions negatively and give a brief idea of his opinions about those three people (or stereotypes). Use examples from The Hand to support your answer.
3. Judging what Wilson says about different people in his text, how would you characterize him as a friend? As a colleague? Use examples from The Hand 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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