If the right side of the brain is damaged, people lose their ability to understand jokes, irony, sarcasm, implications, and other nuances of language
Indicate whether this statement is true or false
ANSWER: True
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Which statement most accurately describes the mechanism that allows us to sense warmth and coolness?
a. There are only receptors for warmth and they work like a thermometer. b. There are only receptors for coolness and they work like a thermometer. c. The brain integrates separate warm and cool signals. d. Meissner corpuscles sense warmth and Merkel disks sense coolness; inputs from these receivers are directly "felt" by the brain.
In which of the following situations is a person the LEAST likely to do nothing
a. The person sees a victim, but doesn't have training to do first aid. b. The person sees a victim and there are many others around. c. The person sees a victim collapse next to him or her. d. The person sees two children, who look similar, fighting.