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Psychologist Michael Gazzaniga asked split-brain patients to stare at a dot as he flashed HE·ART on a screen. HE appeared in the left visual field, ART in the right. When asked, patients said they saw HE. ART. HEART. EA. nothing. They were unable to complete the task.

ART.

Research into dual processing provides partial evidence for levels of consciousness similar to the levels first described by which psychologist? B. F. Skinner Wilhelm Wundt Sigmund Freud Mary Calkins Edward Titchener

Sigmund Freud

Which of the following describes evidence for the brain's dual-processing ability? The right occipital lobe perceives stimuli from our left visual field. The corpus callosum allows impulses to travel between the two hemispheres. The brainstem keeps our heart beating while the cerebral cortex maintains awareness of the outside world. The amygdala shares responsibility for some basic emotions with the hypothalamus and endocrine system. The cerebral cortex is divided into two sets of lobes on each hemisphere

The brainstem keeps our heart beating while the cerebral cortex maintains awareness of the outside world.

What is the interdisciplinary study of how brain activity is linked with our mental processes called? social-cultural perspective psychodynamic perspective cognitive neuroscience industrial-organizational psychology biopsychosocial approach

cognitive neuroscience

Split-brain patients have had their ________ surgically cut. hippocampus limbic system corpus callosum sensory cortex reticular formation

corpus callosum

The ability to simultaneously copy different figures with the right and left hand is most characteristic of those whose ________ has been cut. angular gyrus reticular formation corpus callosum motor cortex sensory cortex

corpus callosum

When looking at a flying bird, we are consciously aware of our cognitive processing ("It's a bird!") but not of our subconscious processing of the bird's form, color, distance, and movement. This illustrates what psychologists call dual processing. serial processing. brain plasticity. selective attention. cognitive neuroscience.

dual processing.

Research on left-handedness suggests that genes or prenatal factors play a role in handedness. a greater proportion of women than men are left-handed. left-handers generally demonstrate less artistic competence than right-handers. most left-handers process language primarily in their right hemisphere. left-handers live longer than right-handers.

genes or prenatal factors play a role in handedness.

The localization of a function such as speech production to the right or left side of the brain is called neurogenesis. lateralization. hemispherectomy. plasticity. reticular formation.

lateralization.

A picture of a cat is briefly flashed in the left visual field and a picture of a mouse is briefly flashed in the right visual field of a split-brain patient. The individual will be able to use her right hand to indicate she saw a cat. left hand to indicate she saw a mouse. right hand to indicate she saw a mouse. left or right hand to indicate she saw a cat. left or right hand to indicate she saw a mouse.

right hand to indicate she saw a mouse.

Someone trying to figure out an optical illusion is probably experiencing increased brain waves and bloodflow to which brain structure? left hemisphere thalamus reticular formation right hemisphere medulla

right hemisphere

Which brain structure might be most active when answering the question "What do the following words have in common: plane, butter, insect?" amygdala reticular formation brainstem left hemisphere right hemisphere

right hemisphere

A failure to recognize that one's arm or leg is part of one's self is most likely to be associated with damage to the amygdala. hypothalamus. right hemisphere. sympathetic nervous system. left hemisphere.

right hemisphere.

Damage to the left cerebral hemisphere is most likely to reduce people's ability to speak fluently. copy drawings. recognize faces. recognize familiar melodies. see colors.

speak fluently.

Researchers use dichotic listening tasks to investigate right-left differences in an intact brain. In this task a different verbal stimulus is presented simultaneously to each ear. Findings suggest that participants more quickly recall information heard by the right ear. This suggests that the right hemisphere excels in making inferences. the left hemisphere outperforms the right in perceptual tasks. the right hemisphere is the major hemisphere. the left hemisphere is dominant in language processing. to the brain, language is language.

the left hemisphere is dominant in language processing.