Describe what PET scans tell us about the processing of single words.
What will be an ideal response?
When people are asked to simply view words without responding to them, the visual
centers of the occipital lobes are activated. When listening to words, the temporal lobes are activated. The areas activated by viewing and listening to words do not overlap. However, when
people are asked to generate a new word in response to a presented word, many areas of the
brain become active, including Broca’s area.
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A. hooliganism B. disinhibition C. purposeful aggression D. reactive aggression
All languages have ways of linking words to actions. Linguists call these
(a) verb phrases (b) noun phrases (c) morpheme sets (d) sentences
Syndactyly is:
a. A condition in which the fingers of the newborn are fused with each other at birth b. A condition in which the midbrain is incomplete at birth c. The necessity to cut the corpus callosum to decrease seizures d. A theory of differential brain development across species
A researcher predicted that an independent variable would produce a difference between a treatment and a control group for the dependent variable. The statistical test resulted in a "statistically significant" difference. This finding
A. proves the null hypothesis is false. B. supports the null hypothesis. C. proves the researcher's hypothesis. D. supports the researcher's hypothesis.