AP Psychology Mapping the Brain

When shown the word ball in their LEFT field of vision, the split brain patient says they saw nothing, but then they choose a ball with their left hand. Even though they can't say what they saw, their left hand has awareness because the

• left hand controlled by left field of vision

• left hand controlled by left brain

• left hand controlled by right brain

• left hand controlled by right field of vision

A split brain person is shown a heart in the LEFT field of vision and a star in the RIGHT field of vision, the person will

• say they saw a star and draw it with left hand

• say they saw a star and draw it with right hand

• say they saw a heart and draw it with left hand

• say they saw nothing and draw a heart in right hand

A split brain patient is shown an egg in their LEFT field of vision and a key in their RIGHT field of vision. They will say they saw a(n)

• egg

• key

• both egg and key

• nothing

A split brain patient is shown an egg in their LEFT field of vision and a key in their RIGHT field of vision. When asked to point to what they saw using their LEFT HAND ONLY, they will point to a(n)

• egg

• key

• both egg and key

• nothing

A split brain person is shown a circle in the LEFT field of vision and a square in the RIGHT field of vision. They will say they saw

• circle

• square

• nothing

A split brain person is shown a circle in their LEFT field of vision and a square in their RIGHT field of vision, When asked to point to the object they saw using their LEFT HAND ONLY. They will point to

• circle

• square

• both the circle and square

When split brain patients were asked to draw images with RIGHT hand only, it was much more difficult than with LEFT hand because

• spatial reasoning is in right hemisphere

• spatial reasoning is in left hemisphere

A split brain patient is shown a bee in the RIGHT field of vision and a dog in the LEFT field of vision. When asked to point to a word that RHYMES with what they saw using their RIGHT hand only, they will choose

• key

• log

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A split brain patient is shown a man in the LEFT field of vision and a woman in the RIGHT field of vision. They will say they saw a _______________ and they will draw a ____________ with their RIGHT hand.

• woman; man

• man; woman

• woman; woman

• man; man

• Tom Cruise; Katie Holmes