Regarding Handedness, Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

question 8

Multiple Choice

Regarding handedness, which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A)A small minority of lefties owe their hand preferences to birth traumas, such as prematurity, low birth weight, and breech birth.
• B)Left-handed persons have a significantly lower incidence of allergies and learning disorders than right-handed persons.
• C)People with inconsistent handedness may be at risk for more immune-related diseases than persons who are consistently left-handed.
• D)Collectivist cultures where left-handedness is viewed as especially negative have about half the proportion of left-handed persons as individualistic cultures.

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Definitions:

Hysteresis

The phenomenon in which the state of a material lags behind changes in the effect causing it, such as the lagging of magnetic flux density behind the magnetizing force.

Spike Suppression

Techniques or devices used to protect electronic circuits from sudden transient voltages, which could cause damage or malfunction.

Metal Oxide Varistor

A voltage-dependent resistor with a nonlinear variance, used to protect electrical circuits from voltage spikes.

Inductance

The property of an electrical conductor by which a change in current flowing through it induces an electromotive force in both the conductor itself and in any nearby conductors by mutual inductance.