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181) ________________ refers to cognitive functions that rely more on one side of the brain than the other, whereas _________________ refers to areas of the brain that are active above baseline during a psychological task. a. Localisation; lateralisation b. Lateralisation; localisation c. Temporal resolution; spatial resolution d. Spatial resolution; temporal resolution 182) Sometimes a person’s corpus callosum is split, which separates the two hemispheres completely. This is done to a. control epilepsy. b. determine the precise area of cognitive functioning. c. study the effects of a split brain. d. change a person’s personality. 183) When a cognitive function relies on one cerebral hemisphere more than the other, this phenomenon is known as a. lateralisation. b. right-brained or left-brained people. c. self-awareness. d. long-term potentiation. 184) The corpus callosum a. causes a vegetative state when severed accidentally. b. shares information between the two halves of the cerebral cortex. c. is made of fibrous muscle that holds the hemispheres together. d. None of the answers are correct. 185) Your friend Sheila says she is definitely a right-brained person because she excels in her language and art classes but performs miserably in her math classes. You tell her a. there is no scientific evidence for this type of hemispheric asymmetry for complex tasks, and actually the two hemispheres function together. b. she has it backwards: if she likes language but dislikes math, she must be left-brained. c. she needs to also assess her handedness before reaching this conclusion. d. indeed there is scientific evidence for some specialisation across hemispheres so she must have greater activation of one hemisphere compared to the other. 186) Left-brained people are a. analytical. b. scholarly. c. logical. d. None of the answers are correct. It’s a myth. 187) The myth of exaggerated right-brain versus left-brain differences can be traced to a. self-help books. b. vast oversimplifications. c. misinterpretations of what scientists reported. d. All of the answers are correct. 188) People’s genetic makeup is their a. genome. b. genotype. c. phenotype. d. mRNA. 189) Sophia’s parents both have brown eyes, while Sophia has blue eyes. It is likely that Sophia a. is adopted. b. inherited dominant genes for eye colour. c. inherited recessive genes for eye colour. d. inherited both dominant and recessive genes for eye colour. 190) Phenotype is a. made up of dominant genes only. b. made up of recessive genes only. c. a person’s genetic makeup. d. the set of observable traits.