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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years ago did changes in global climate initiate an ecosystem of fruits and flowers?
(a) 10 million.
(b) 1.5 million.
(c) 50 thousand.
(d) 65 million.

2. What do some scientists say practicing a skill using one hand more frequently than the other does?
(a) Causes a chemical inbalance.
(b) Creates a uneven situation that's difficult to correct.
(c) Creates an unbalance in the brain.
(d) Makes them better at that skill with that hand.

3. What distinguishes a proficient surgeon from a mediocre one?
(a) Where one trains.
(b) Analysis and perceptual organization.
(c) Manual dexterity.
(d) I. Q

4. How does Greenfield say she knows how a child will solve Greenfield's stick puzzle?
(a) By knowing the child's age.
(b) By observing which thumb is larger.
(c) By knowing if the child can read.
(d) By observing which foot the child starts out on when walking.

5. What do Haeckel, Reynolds and Dunbar confirm?
(a) Aspects of the evolutionary process perceived in Greenfield's theory.
(b) Children become problem solvers even before they can talk.
(c) Children become improvisers before they can even talk.
(d) Apes and children have a very different evolutionary process from about six months on.

6. How does Broca identify an area in the brain that controls speech?
(a) By a drug that changes the speech area of the brain.
(b) By small electrical charges administered to different areas of the brain.
(c) By examining the brain of a stroke patient who is left speechless.
(d) By examining an MRI in a person who has never been able to speak.

7. For how long has the brain been preadapted for speech?
(a) For about 25,000 years.
(b) More than a million years.
(c) For about 10,000 years.
(d) Over 100,000 years.

8. How does Wilson learn that cooking is a specific skill using hands to produce an immediate sense of achievement?
(a) Eating at LuLu's restaurant
(b) Working as a meal planner in a posh restaurant.
(c) Talking with Reed.
(d) Working as a sous chef.

9. What is a second language requirement?
(a) The ability of the brain to understand the connection between concrete objects and their abstract names.
(b) The ability to form the tongue into vowel shapes.
(c) The ability to hear.
(d) The ability to put words together in a chain or cluster.

10. What does Wilson say is not genetic?
(a) The ability to sing.
(b) The ability to learn languages.
(c) Musical talent.
(d) The ability to hear tone.

11. What did the fruits and flowers provide?
(a) Shade.
(b) Nectar.
(c) Treetop food.
(d) Ground food.

12. What does Wilson say is an emotional experience?
(a) Food.
(b) Completing a perfect, nine-course meal.
(c) Interacting with an aclaimed chef.
(d) Learning a new skill.

13. Who calls the hidden structure of words "innate syntax"?
(a) Frederick de Saussure.
(b) Arthur Abramson.
(c) Chomsky.
(d) Andrew Carnie.

14. What does Peter Reynolds spend years doing in New Guinea?
(a) Studying the ancient artifacts of the extinct culture.
(b) Observing young baboons.
(c) Observing gorillas.
(d) Observing chimpanzees.

15. What rule does Greenfield propose?
(a) A rule that illustrates how a child can sometimes change hand dominence.
(b) A rule that illustrates how an adult can sometimes change hand dominence.
(c) A hierarchical rule generator.
(d) A rule that a person uses to decide what skills to develop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Israeli physicist perceive as a sophisticated controller of movement?

2. What does the Israeli physicist desire to do rather than increasing muscle strength in a paralyzed person?

3. What is Jack restoring?

4. What does William Calvin claim about female apes?

5. What is one of medicine's oldest links?

(see the answer keys)

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