A neuropsychologist has found that during a task to determine the extent of damage of a head injury to a patient that some patients performed well on the first task but poorly on the second task. This was the opposite pattern for the other patients the neuropsychologist tested. This is an example of:
a) Top-down processing
b) Double dissociation
c) Dissociative Identity Disorder
d) None of the above
Ans: b) Double dissociation
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