Evolutionary psychologists use interviews and questionnaires to depict and observe people's behaviors. However, the argument against this method is that these survey tools do not always describe a person's actual decisions. What description of culture does this fall under?
- Evolutionary versus sociobiology
- What people say versus what they do
- Stereotypes versus actual behavior
- Convenience versus representative samples
Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist who posited that children take the surface structure of language and infer an underlying deep structure. Which of the following is FALSE regarding language development?
- Children combine words in the same way as adults.
- Children in different cultures go through similar stages of linguistic development.
- Children not exposed to adult language may invent a language of their own.
- Infants can derive simple linguistic rules from sounds.
The degree to which differences occur between the left hemisphere and right hemisphere of the brain can be considered relative, as various cognitive processes are spread across each half. However, which of the following is TRUE regarding specific functions of each hemisphere?
- Mathematical abilities are subject to the left hemisphere only.
- Language and abstract thinking are determinant in the right hemisphere only.
- Emotions, such as fear and sadness, are dominant in the right hemisphere.
- Both hemispheres perform all functions equally, but in different magnitudes.
John has had a crush on Amanda since seventh grade math. Every time he sees her, he feels like his heart is about to pound out of his chest, and his hands begin to get very sweaty. What biological element is at work in this situation?
- The autonomic nervous system
- The central nervous system
- The parasympathetic nervous system
- The somatic nervous system
Split brain patients are people whose corpus callosum has been cut (for medical purposes) resulting in a loss of communication between the left hemisphere and right hemisphere of the brain. If a picture is flashed to a split brain patient, which side of the brain will verbally communicate the picture?
- The right hemisphere
- Neither
- Both will have equal opportunity to verbally communicate the picture
- The left hemisphere