ANTHRO 1 QUIZ 11

T/F Damage to Broca's area in the brain tends to be associated with right side paralysis
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T/F Damage to Broca's area in the brain tends to be associated with right side paralysis
TRUE
Which of the following contributes to the difficulty of the human birth process compared with other primates?
The human pelvis has been shortened to better support bipedal locomotion.
T/F Patients with Wernicke's aphasia are often unaware that they are using nonsense words.
TRUE
T/F Mammals that give birth to large litters tend to have precocial babies
FALSE
T/F Menopause is rare innmonkeys
TRUE
T/F Gestation length is reduced in humans in order to give birth to larger brained babies
FALSE
the state of a human newborn is unusual for a mammal because human babies
are both artificial and the result of uniparous pregnancy
one theory of human menopause argues that it is an adaptation because...
by caring for grandchildren, older women pass on more genes than if reproduced themselves
a series of experimental studies held by john garcia helped to undermine the behaviorist dogma that the rate of learning is dependent on the strength of the reinforcement (reward or punishment) and the number of training trials. His experiments demonstrated that...
Pairing nausea with a taste is easier to learn than pairing it with a visual cue
What makes birth more difficult for mamosets and primates than for most other primates?
callitrichid fetal head dimensions are proportionally larger than maternal internal pelvic dimensions
describe a change in the human birth process that likely evolved because the neonatal head is larger than the maternal pelvis in one dimensionfetal head rotationname a species (common name, genus or species) that has relatively precocial newbornsHorses, llamas etcdescribe an example of an icon, an index, and a symbolicon: reference by likeness (eg. handicap sign) index: reference by physical temporal correlation (eg. one thing suggests another such as loss of taste as a symptom of covid) symbol: reference by agreement (eg. how everyone understands that certain traffic signs are meant to dictate driving behavior)How do innate calls (including human laughter and sobbing) differ from words and speech with respect to a. how they are controlled in the brain b. how they refer to things and events in the worlda. innate calls are subcortical and evolved responses, words are cortical and you can learn them instead of evolving them b. innate calls mostly express emotion; words have unlimited meaning and possibilities based on grammar & syntax