While Watching a Football Game, Martin Jumped Up to Cheer

question 67

Multiple Choice

While watching a football game, Martin jumped up to cheer and dropped baby Theresa to the floor. If she later has trouble with higher-order thinking, planning, problem solving, or voluntary movement, it would indicate that the ________ lobe of her brain was damaged.

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

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Definitions:

Context Effects

The influence of environmental factors on one's perception or understanding of a stimulus.

Perceptual Set

A readiness to perceive or interpret stimuli in a particular way based on expectations, experiences, emotions, and culture.

Weber's Law

A principle stating that the smallest change in a physical stimulus that can be detected is a constant proportion of the stimulus level.

Masking Stimulus

A stimulus used to interfere with the perception of another stimulus, often used in research to study attention and perception processes.