Martha had a stroke localized to her left frontal lobe. After the stroke, she is still able to hold information in her mind and make mental calculations. She has likely retained her working memory because this ability
A. is not isolated to just one part of the brain.
B. is localized to the basal ganglia.
C. is localized to the parietal lobe.
D. is localized to the hippocampus.
Answer: A
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a. positive b. biological c. psychodynamic d. existential
The first 10 students who arrived for the Friday lecture filled out a questionnaire on their attitudes toward the instructor. The first 10 who were late for the lecture were spotted, and afterward filled out the same questionnaire. The appropriate design for testing the significance of the difference between the means is
a. related-samples t-test. b. independent-samples t-test. c. one-sample t-test. d. z-test.
Important elements of a stimulus pattern, such as lines, shapes, edges, spots, and colors, are referred to as
a. perceptual features. b. sensory amplifiers. c. perceptual transducers. d. phosphenes.
Seeing the world without preconceptions tends to lead to
a. fixation and an inability to find new solutions. b. more creativity and better solutions. c. functional fixedness in the use of objects. d. an inflexible and dogmatic approach to dealing with the world.