quiz 1 1.what was severed in the patient’s studied by gazzaniga? (be specific) 2.is the more...

Quiz 1

1. What was severed in the patient’s studied by Gazzaniga? (be specific)

2. Is the More Experience=Bigger Brain reading consistent with John Locke’s theory of knowledge?

3. What is difference between an MZA and an MZT?

4. Which animal is not afraid of the visual cliff and why?

5. Which of the four studies won someone a Nobel Prize?

Gazzaniga, 1967• Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.

– Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth

– Studied Subject W.J. in 1962 with neuroscientist and Nobel Laureate, Roger W. Sperry, while a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology

Gazzaniga, 1967

Hemispherectomy

Rosenzweig et al., 1972• Mark Rosenzweig was working at the

University of California at Berkeley through the 1960s at a time when Nature was winning the Natute-Nurture debate

Bouchard et al., 1990

• Thomas Bouchard: Director of the Minnesota Center for Twin and Adoption Research.

Gibson and Walk, 1960• Elanor Gibson (1910-2002)

– Ph.D. Yale 1938– Studied at Cornell, Middlebury U. VT