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À vous! Write a brief note to your new pen pal describing yourself and your family. Write at least nine complete sentences. Include the following information: your marital status (single, married, divorced, engaged, etc.), the size of your family (list your family members/say who’s in your family), how many pets you own, your personality (kind, serious, etc.), and your physical appearance (strong, handsome, etc.). Make sure that your verbs are conjugated and that your adjectives have agreement! Please be aware that I will be deducting points for missing information and/or missing sentences.

Rasheeda has been diagnosed with anosognosia. Based on what you have learned in this chapter, Rasheeda _________.  

​What is an important assumption in the field of neuropsychology?

​Despite the popular view of his time, Franz Gall, an anatomist, asserted that the brain operated based on ____. Though his claim was actually correct, Gall was virtually dismissed because of his approach to understanding personality, known as ____.

Leia was recently in a car accident. The doctor thinks that Leia may have suffered structural damage to her brain. Which test would be most appropriate to find out whether there is structural damage?​

Rita is 72 years old. For the past few years, she has developed a memory loss that is getting worse, and her  personality has become very erratic. Her physicians have said that she has Alzheimer’s disease, but you aren’t sure. What finding should most convince you that the physicians are correct?​

Neurons have some similarities with other cells in the human body. Which characteristic is seen in neurons, but not in most other cells?​

Craig, who is a psychologist, believes that listening to classical music while studying will increase academic performance. This is an example of a(n) _________.​

Thao was in a car accident a year ago in which she suffered some brain damage. Because of the rare nature of the impairment, Dr. Ming kept very detailed notes concerning the treatments administered, the effects of those treatments, and other particular aspects of Thao’s condition. He hopes to publish his findings so that if another psychologist encounters a patient with a condition like Thao’s, the psychologist will have some information to aid them in treating the individual. Which research method is Dr. Ming using?​

An experimenter who conducts a study under highly controlled conditions often reduces the ____.​