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6. What types of data were collected?

  • Qualitative
  • Quantitative and qualitative
  • Quantitative
  • Interviews and tests

7. What pathway between the two hemispheres had been split in ALL of the patients?

  • The corpus collosum
  • Frontal lobe
  • Celleberum
  • The left and right hippocampi

8. Split brain patients had...

  • Problems with short term memory and short attention spans
  • Perosnality changes
  • Short attention spans
  • Nothing wrong with them

9. The participants gave an emotional response (giggle) if a photograph of a pin-up was displayed to the...

  • Either field
  • Left visual field
  • Right visual field
  • The patient did not giggle

10. How were the hemisphere's connected?

  • Hemispheres are joined at the base by commissural fibres
  • Hemispheres are joined by the frontal lobe
  • Hemispheres are joined by veins

11. When flashed a dollar sign in the LVF & a question mark in RVF...

  • Drew a question mark but said they saw a dollar sign
  • Saw a dollar sign but could draw anything at all
  • Participants drew a dollar sign but said she saw a question mark other answers
  • Said they saw a question mark and drew a question mark

12. Visual stimuli were flashed on the screen for...

  • 0.001 seconds
  • 1 second
  • 0.1 seconds
  • 0.01 seconds

13. Which one is not a strength of Sperry's study

  • The controlled conditions
  • The sampling method used
  • The sample size
  • The type of data collected

14. What hemisphere controls the left nostril?

  • 90% right hemisphere
  • 90% left hemisphere
  • Left hemisphere
  • Right hemisphere

15. What was the aim of the study?

  • To see if the hemispheres work by themselves
  • To investigate the effects of hemisphere deconnection and to show that each hemisphere has different functions.
  • To see whether people still suffered from epilepsy

16. How many participants were there in Sperry's study?

  • 40
  • 11
  • 9
  • 12

17. Who first discovered that the left hemisphere was responsible for language?

  • Sperry
  • Wernickle
  • Broca
  • Casey

18. What is the division of tasks between the hemispheres called?

  • Hemisphere function
  • Anti-lateralisation
  • Lateralisation of function
  • Split brain

19. Why did the participants have split brain surgery?

  • They were suffering from life threatening epilepsy
  • They were suffering from minor epilepsy

20. Did Sperry's study take place in 1968?

  • True
  • False