With regard to brain lateralization, a majority of people
a. rely primarily on the left hemisphere of the brain to carry out language activities.
b. rely primarily on the left hemisphere of the brain for spatial perception and listening to music.
c. rely on the left hemisphere for both language and spatial perception.
d. rely on the right hemisphere for both language and spatial perception.
Question 2Which structure is accurately described as the superhighway connecting the two hemispheres of the brain?
a. Pons
b. Endocrine gland
c. Brain stem
d. Corpus callosum
Question 3An overly simplistic way to describe the brain is that the left side is the _____ side, and the right side is the _____ side.
a. behaving; desiring
b. thinking; emotional
c. desiring; behaving
d. emotional; thinking
Question 4The right brain hemisphere
a. controls the right side of the body and is skilled at sequential processing.
b. controls the left side of the body and is skilled at sequential processing.
c. controls the right side of the body and is skilled at simultaneous processing.
d. controls the left side of the body and is skilled at simultaneous processing.
Question 5Lateralization refers to the
a. specialization of the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex.
b. organizational structure of the peripheral nervous system.
c. plasticity of the spinal cord.
d. number of neurons produced during prenatal development.