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corkyiscool3328

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Given the roles that the right hemisphere typically plays in language comprehension, which one of the following tasks would rely most heavily on the right hemisphere?
 
  a. Hearing the rhyme in the words hypocrisy and democracy
  b. Writing precise definitions of abstract words such as hypocrisy and democracy
  c. Realizing that That blonde is really hot has as least two possible meanings
  d. Translating Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace into English

Question 2

During the elementary and secondary school years, much of the brain's development occurs in regions of the brain that are largely responsible for
 
  a. thinking and reasoning
  b. generation of emotional responses
  c. muscular strength and coordination
  d. making discriminations among highly similar stimuli



ErinKing

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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

a



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