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?

Ellie works at the telephone switchboard at a nearby business. She answers calls and directs them to the correct extensions. Remembering her introductory psychology class, she thinks about how her situation is a lot like the ___________ of neurons because many people can call at one time, but she can only connect one call at a time.​

Jerald has been depressed recently and he is having suicidal thoughts. We might assume that his brain has low levels of _____.​

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?​

Alcohol slows down the speed with which messages travel through the nervous system. This is best explained by the fact that alcohol increases the amount of ____ in the brain.​

Identifying certain types of brain functions (language skills, for instance) as lateralized means that ____.​

Which developmental change in the brain occurs after birth?​

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?​