Corey Was in an Automobile Accident That Resulted in an Injury

question 181

Multiple Choice

Corey was in an automobile accident that resulted in an injury to her brain. She now has difficulty maintaining her balance and normal body positions. Her ability to understand and comprehend language has also been injured. The part of her brain most likely injured was her ________ lobe.

• A) parietal
• B) temporal
• C) occipital
• D) frontal

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Definitions:

Outcome Expectations

The beliefs that carrying out a specific behavior will lead to valued outcomes.

Operant Conditioning

An educational method where the intensity of an action is altered through rewards or penalties.

Positive Punishment

A method of behavior modification that involves the addition of an aversive stimulus in order to decrease a certain behavior.

Negative Punishment

A behavior modification technique where something desirable is removed following an undesired behavior, with the intention of decreasing that behavior.