Explain how a patient who loses language function following brain damage can regain their language abilities.
What will be an ideal response?
Since neuron regrowth is very limited in the central nervous system, the recovery of language functions seems to be the result of reorganization of undamaged brain areas. Sometimes other brain areas are particularly good at taking over the language function because the reorganization likely began early in life, such as in patients who had surgical removal of language areas due to brain abnormalities that began early in life.
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Remarkably, Phineas Gage survived a horrific traumatic brain injury in 1848, but was not the same person as before his accident. Although outwardly normal in his intelligence, speech, and movement, Gage became prone to angry outbursts and unreliability. In which area of his brain did Phineas Gage experience trauma?
a. right parietal lobe b. right occipital lobe c. left temporal lobe d. left frontal lobe
Which area of the brain, attached to the basal ganglia by an impulsive, reward-seeking system, plays a large role in brain addiction?
a. ?medulla oblongata b. ?nucleus accumbens c. ?hypothalamus d. ?hippocampus
You are the mayor of a major Midwestern city with a recent history of racial unrest. After an unarmed black teenager is shot by police, you must create substantial reforms that restore the community's faith in the police, and a policy, which allows for restorative justice. Describe the ethical and theoretical basis for the reforms you will make.
What will be an ideal response?
To discourage his children from smoking, a father showed them the extremely graphic pictures of withered, blackened, and perforated lungs of a dead smoker. Afterward, when confronted with peers offering cigarettes, the "lung pictures" came into the children's minds. This is an example of
A. procedural knowledge. B. auditory memory. C. visual memory. D. semantic memory.