The thick bundle of nerves connecting the two cerebral hemispheres which coordinates their activities is the ______
a. corpus callosum
b. substantia nigra
c. caudate nucleus d. reticular formation
a
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What will be an ideal response?
Strokes damaging the left side of the brain typically affect ____, as well as physical movement on the right half of the body; whereas strokes occurring within the right hemisphere can ____ in addition to impairing motor movement on the left side of the body
a. speech and language proficiency; impair judgment and short-term memory b. impair judgment and short-term memory; speech and language proficiency c. empathic abilities; increase impulsivity d. impulsivity; decrease empathic abilities
According to Skinner, people are rewarded, but behavior is reinforced
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following presents an ethical problem in behavioral research?
a. deception b. self-fulfilling prophecies c. the placebo effect d. the correlation/causation problem