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Do You Fall For These Common Myths About Psychology

Neuroscientists are regularly developing new tools and procedures that advance understanding of what goes on inside our heads. Does your knowledge of the mind stack up against the facts? Take this test to find out.

1. You normally use only 10 percent of your brain.

2. Left-brained people are logical, right-brained people are creative.

3. Intelligence is only partly set at birth.

4. You lose brain cells as you age, and they don’t grow back.

5. Everyone has one learning style that suits them best.

6. Memory is an imprecise narrator of events.

7. Multitasking boosts productivity.

8. Activities like playing the piano improve as a direct function of time spent practicing.

9. Your behavior can be controlled by subliminal messages.

10. Learning requires adding new cells to the brain