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Throughout history,a notable number of artists have been lefties.This advantage of using the left hand for drawing or painting occurs because the right hemisphere is superior in


A) focusing on details.
B) imagery and visual abilities.
C) sequential processing.
D) all of these skills.

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Regarding handedness,which of the following statements is TRUE?


A) Right-handed persons are better at visualizing three-dimensional objects than left-handed persons.
B) More musicians are ambidextrous than would normally be expected.
C) Left-handed persons have more difficulty recovering from brain injury and language loss than do right-handed persons.
D) Right-handed persons have a clear advantage in the sports of boxing,tennis,handball,and fencing.

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Lynn tends to almost always lean her head to the right when she is kissing her boyfriend Mike.When using a microscope at work,Lynn tends to use her right eye and even breathes better through her right nostril.Lynn's right preference illustrates


A) sidedness.
B) neuroplasticity.
C) acquired hemispherization.
D) preferential lateralization.

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The physical size and shape of the two cerebral hemispheres of right-handed persons is more alike than that of left- handed persons.

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Regarding handedness,which of the following statements is FALSE?


A) Left-handed locomotive engineers have higher accident rates with a possible cause being the locomotive controls are designed for right-handed persons.
B) Left-handed persons have a higher incidence of allergies and learning disorders.
C) Consistent left-handers are more at risk for immune-related diseases than those people with mixed handedness.
D) The shortage of very old lefties may reflect that more left-handed children were forced to become right- handed,so the lefties are masquerading as righties.

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The Latin word for "right" means


A) lucky.
B) dominant.
C) dexterous.
D) skillful.

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Gina was asked to throw a ball,to kick a ball,to look through a telescope,to listen to a phone,and to write her name.The examiner observed which hand,foot,eye,and ear Gina used to perform these tasks.Gina was being assessed for __________.

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Clear hand preferences have been shown in fetal ultrasound images.

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Although handedness is a matter of degree,what percent of Americans are right-handed?


A) 70 percent
B) 80 percent
C) 90 percent
D) 98 percent

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Discuss five advantages of being left-handed or ambidextrous,including the effects of left-handed persons being less strongly lateralized.

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Right-handed individuals who write with a straight hand and lefties who write with a hooked hand are usually


A) more intelligent than those who do not use this hand position.
B) less intelligent than those who do not use this hand position.
C) left-brain dominant for language.
D) right-brain dominant for language.

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What is considered the single most important behavioral indicator of sideness?


A) eye preference
B) ear preference
C) leg movement
D) handedness

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Nic tends to gesture more with his right hand when he talks.Nic probably processes language


A) in his right hemisphere.
B) in his left hemisphere.
C) more inefficiently than if he gestured with his left hand.
D) in both hemispheres,since a majority of people do not have a dominant hemisphere for language processing.

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Which country would have the highest number of left-handers?


A) Japan
B) India
C) Canada
D) All countries have the same number of left-handers.

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Regarding handedness,which of the following statements is TRUE?


A) Left-handed persons are generally more lateralized than those who are right-handed.
B) Left-handed persons recover more quickly from brain injury than do right-handed persons.
C) Right-handed persons seem to have better than average pitch memory as compared to left-handed persons.
D) Right-handed persons tend to outperform left-handed persons on average arithmetic skills as well as higher forms of mathematics.

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Regarding the proportion of left-handed people,collectivist countries tend to have


A) twice as many lefties as individualist countries.
B) only slightly more lefties than individualist countries.
C) the same number of lefties as individualist countries.
D) half as many lefties as individualist countries.

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Regarding handedness,which of the following statements is FALSE?


A) Left-handed persons are better at visualizing three-dimensional objects than right-handed persons.
B) There are more left-handed architects,artists,and chess players than would be expected in the population.
C) The physical size and shape of the two cerebral hemispheres of right-handed persons is more alike than that of left-handed persons.
D) Individuals who are moderately left-handed or ambidextrous seem to have better than average pitch memory.

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If you are right-handed,you have more area on the left side of your brain devoted to controlling your right hand.

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If you are right-handed,which of the following statements is TRUE?


A) Your right hand has more strength and dexterity than your left hand.
B) You have more area on the left side of your brain devoted to controlling your right hand.
C) You have more area on the right side of your brain devoted to controlling your right hand.
D) You have a larger corpus callosum than if you were left-handed.

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Regarding handedness,which of the following statements is FALSE?


A) Handedness is directly inherited,like eye color and skin color.
B) Handedness is influenced by a single gene on the X chromosome.
C) Learning,birth traumas,and social pressure to use the right hand can affect which hand one ends up favoring.
D) Left-handedness is more common in males than in females.

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