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271) A surgeon is probing your visual cortex with a probe. Which of the following would you be most likely to experience? A) a sense of being gently touched B) nothing at all C) the emotion of anger D) swirls of colour 272) Cultural factors that may affect brain organization include: A) family size. B) birth order. C) language learning. D) literacy. 273) A surgeon is electrically stimulating your auditory cortex with a probe. Which of the following would you be most likely to experience? A) nothing at all B) a sense of being gently touched C) hearing a sound D) the emotion of anger 274) The prefrontal cortex takes up about 7% of the cerebral cortex in dogs and about ________ in humans. A) 12% B) 38% C) 17% D) 29% 275) Phineas Gage experienced a dramatic personality change as a result of damage to his: A) temporal lobes. B) parietal lobes. C) occipital lobes. D) frontal lobes. 276) By plotting possible trajectories of the iron rod that penetrated the head of Phineas Gage, psychologists were able to determine that the damage occurred in an area of the: A) motor cortex that is associated with voluntary movements. B) prefrontal cortex that is associated with rational decisions and emotions. C) somatosensory cortex that is associated with pressure, pain, and touch. D) visual cortex that is associated with visual recognition. 277) Which of the following illustrates the controversy about the exact details of the sad case of Phineas Gage? A) No one can really know the exact location of the brain damage since Gage was cremated and it was not possible to exhume his skull for scientific study. B) Because Gage died within three weeks of the accident it was not possible for his physicians to make long-term observations of the effect of the injury. C) Because Gage was paralyzed after his injury it was difficult to determine which aspects of his behaviour were due to the accident and which were due to depression. D) No one is really sure what Gage was like before his accident, and the doctors may have exaggerated the extent of his personality transformation. 278) Although it occupies 29% of the cortex in human beings, the ________ barely exists in ________. A) association cortex; cats and dogs B) association cortex; mice and rats C) prefrontal cortex; mice and rats D) prefrontal cortex; cats and dogs 279) Which of the following lobes are involved in the ability to do a series of tasks in proper sequence and then to stop doing these tasks at the proper time? A) temporal lobes B) frontal lobes C) parietal lobes D) occipital lobes 280) After a serious head injury, Conway is working in the woodworking shop of a rehabilitation hospital. He begins planing a piece of wood and continues till it is nothing but splinters. It is most likely that Conway’s ________ was injured. A) frontal lobe B) temporal lobe C) parietal lobe D) occipital lobe