The Existence of Perseveration in Patients with Frontal-Lobe Damage Provides

question 12

Multiple Choice

The existence of perseveration in patients with frontal-lobe damage provides evidence for the involvement of executive-control processes in:

• A) the updating of working memory.
• B) setting goals and planning.
• C) stimulus selection and response inhibition.
• D) task switching.

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Definitions:

Independent Segregation

A principle of genetic inheritance where different genes independently separate from one another when reproductive cells develop.

Homozygous

A genetic condition where an individual has two identical alleles for a particular gene.

Mendel's Law

A set of principles relating to inheritance, including law of segregation and law of independent assortment, established by Gregor Mendel.

Chromosomes

Thread-like structures located inside the nucleus of animal and plant cells, made of protein and a single molecule of DNA, which carry genes.