Damage to this area of the brain can lead people to make riskier decisions.

A. Broca’s area
B. Wernicke’s area
C. left temporal lobe
D. prefrontal cortex
E. right temporal lobe


D. prefrontal cortex

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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a. evolutionary b. contingency c. situational d. great person

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Psychology