Review: Right-Brain, Left-Brain Controversy

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1. 1. The use of lasers, or powerful lights, may soon dominate medicine and surgery.

• control

• indicate

• display

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1. 2. In the past few decades, computers have improved greatly. They are now smaller, faster, and cheaper.

• time

• months

• 30 years

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1. 3. Science has revealed a great deal about how the brain works.

• indicated

• told us

• displayed

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1. 4. People believed that our left brain and left brain worked independently, but later researchers found otherwise.

• the opposite idea

• the same

• something similar

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1. 5. Art can improve the lives of young people by helping them to become more creative.

• get more ideas and create new things

• become stronger

• work harder and harder

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1. 6. By increasing your mental flexibility, you become a more skilled thinker and problem solver.

• mental consistency

• creativity

• ability to adapt to new situations

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1. 7. Many teenagers display physical problems like headaches or stomachaches when they get angry with their parents.

• process

• show

• indicate

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1. 8. Doing mathematical problems require logical thought. You must think about the problems before you can solve them.

• flexibility

• good reasoning

• processing

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1. 9. Studies indicate that several parts of the brain work together to help us remember things.

• suggest

• display

• recommend

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1. 10. In psychology, information processing refers to the way we handle information.

• research

• storage and organization

• program

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