Which of the following brain areas was most likely damaged if a
person loses his or her ability to understand jokes, irony, sarcasm, and the overall context in which something is said?
a. left hemisphere
b. right hemisphere
c. amygdala
d. corpus callosum
ANSWER: b
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A. It is experienced when id impulses are close to breaking into consciousness. B. It prevents the ego from utilizing defense mechanisms. C. It is created when id impulses violate society's moral code. D. People experiencing neurotic anxiety usually are aware of what is making them anxious.
In the survey of willingness to confess to a crime one did not commit
A. women said they were more likely to falsely confess. B. men were more likely to say they would falsely confess. C. men and women were equally likely to say that they would falsely confess. D. neither sex felt they would ever falsely confess.
According to Vygotsky, during the _______ of life, thought and vocalizations are separate
a. first 6 months c. first year b. first 9 months d. second year
Abelard's proposed compromise between nominalism (concepts summarize individual experience) and realism (once concepts are formed, they exist apart from individual experience), is called:?
a. ?conceptualism b. ?scholasticism c. ?the ontological argument d. ?the dialectic