Exam 13: Cognitive Functions

 Rene Descartes proposed that ____.

 Nearly all current philosophers and neuroscientists reject monism.

 Deaf children who do not learn any language by the time they enter school ____.

 Control of the emotional content of speech depends on ____.

 Briefly discuss the concept of a language acquisition device and its genetic basis.

 Oxytocin helps ____.

 Estell had her corpus callosum cut. She finds now that she tends to _____.

 The view that only minds really exist and that the physical world could not exist unless some mind were aware of it is known as ____.

 The language of children with Williams syndrome is ____.

 Describe some of the research on in-group bias with respect to empathy and altruism.

 The love-enhancing hormone is ____.

 A single visual pattern is presented under two conditions. Under one condition, the viewer is conscious of it, and under the other, the viewer is not. How does the activity differ in the brain, if at all?

 Dysphonetic dyslexics have the most difficulty with ____.

 Noam Chomsky and other advocates of the language acquisition device argue that humans ____.

 Describe the role of the right hemisphere.

 Professor Xing tells his class that evolution enabled humans to develop language because _____.

 Anomia involves difficulty ____.

 Wernicke's aphasia is to ____ as Broca's aphasia is to ____.

 Broca's area is located in the ____.

 In order for a split-brain patient to name something, he must see it ____.