Phineas Gage, a railroad foreman, suffered damage to a large part of the brain responsible for emotion regulation, planning, and decision making—namely, the _____ lobe.
A) temporal
B) parietal
C) occipital
D) frontal
D) frontal
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If an individual gets a recessive allele for eye color from both parents:
a. the gender of the child will determine if that trait is shown. b. the recessive trait will develop in the child. c. the trait will develop 50 percent of the time. d. the trait will be turned off and the dominant trait will be expressed.
Your neighbor is concerned that her teenage daughter has an eating disorder. You are not so sure since her daughter is of normal weight. If her daughter does have an eating disorder, what is the most likely possibility?
a. bulimia nervosa b. anorexia nervosa c. over-exercise d. EDNOS
The peripheral route of persuasion is most closely associated with which kind of thought?
A. Heuristic B. Logical C. Expert D. Motivated
Recall Medvec and her colleagues' (1995) study of the emotions experienced by Olympic athletes who won bronze and silver medals. If silver medalists outperformed bronze medalists, why were they less happy?
a. The gold medalists taunted the silver medalists more than they did the bronze medalists. b. It was easier for silver medalists to imagine winning the gold medal. c. Bronze medalists were grateful simply to have the opportunity to compete. d. There is a positive correlation between talent and competitiveness.