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WorksheetsAQA Psychology Hemispheric Lateralisation & Split Brain Research
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
The fact that language is controlled by the left hemisphere in the brain is known as
Lateralisation
Aphasia
Holism
Plasticity
If an object was shown to the left visual field of one of Sperry's participants, they would report
that they had seen the object
that there was nothing there
that they saw two objects
that they saw a differeent object
The right hemisphere is often referred to as the
Synthesiser
Analyser
Language centre
Visualiser
The idea that the two hemispheres of the brain are functionally different is known as
prefrontal leucotomy
localisation
hemispheric bifurcation
lateralisation
Pick all of the functions that are NOT lateralised
language
vision
motor
somatosensory
Split brain patients have had their ................... severed in a commissurotomy
cerebellum
cerebral cortex
corpus callosum
amygdala
Sperry concluded that...
being right brained makes you creative and being left brained means you're good at maths
the right and left hemispheres are functionally similar
the right hemisphere is verbal and the left is emotional
the left hemisphere is verbal and the right is emotional
Sperry's patients were compared to a neurotypical control group. One problem with this is that...
the neurotypical group may have struggled to name items presented to them
the epilepsy suffered by the experimental group may have been a counfounding variable
neurotypical people are very clever
epilepsy is difficult to diagnose
Fink used PET scans and found more activity in one side of the brain that the other when 'normal' participants performed different tasks. This...
supports the theory of lateralisation
contradicts the theory of lateralisation
suggests the theory of lateralisation is generalisable to neurotypical people
suggests localisation occurs in split brain patients
Turk et al. found evidence of the right
hemisphere’s ability to process and produce speech. They
studied J.W, a patient who suffered damage to the left
hemisphere but developed the capacity to speak in the right
hemisphere. This indicates...
brain functions are localised
plasticity can lead to the other hemisphere taking over some functions
J.W had no hope
the brain cannot adapt
