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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 often dictates which hand is dominate?

2. What do Haeckel, Reynolds and Dunbar confirm?

3. How is the dominant hand theoretically controlled?

4. What does Wilson say is not genetic?

5. What is an example of a secondary heuristic?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is one thing that influences which hand is dominant and what are a couple other characteristics that are often associated with one dominant hand or the other?

3. What does the author think about concerning a high school language teacher?

4. Why can't ground mammals take advantage of this global change?

5. What does William Calvin believe about female apes?

6. Who is Moshe Feldenkrais and what does he discover?

7. What is the result of global climate changes 65 million years ago?

8. What does eating at LuLu teach Wilson?

9. Explain the studies that are conducted by a joint effort of University of New Mexico and Gallaudet University?

10. What is the title of Feldenkrais' book and what does the book claim?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In order for hominids to expand their range into habitats beyond the jungle, they required continuing brain evolution. The expansion of territory by hominids took group cooperation for survival. A professor of biology from the University of Liverpool named Robin Dunbar proposes a theory of brain growth, language and intelligence to correlate neocortex, brain size, with a stable group or tribe.

1. Explain how greater intelligence enabled hominids to leave the jungle. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Explain, in depth, why cooperation among hominids would be an important aspect of survival. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

3. Discuss ways in which cooperation and social living might increase the brain size or intelligence of hominids. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

1. Charles Bell asserts that practice enables the hand and eye to develop as sense organs so the brain teaches itself by making the hand and eye work together. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Charles Sherrington claims the tip of the thumb and index finger are treated by the brain like the sensitive part of the retina. He claims the eye is drawn to the object automatically and the hand with its sensitive fingers grasps it. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

3. A biologic clock develops to set an internal time reference relative to the time used in a sequence of motion--for example, the time it takes for a ball to fall. Practice improves the sense of timing but a teacher or coach can help to sequence the process and eliminate making the same mistakes. 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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