Someone with Focal Brain Damage in Their Left Hemisphere

question 81

Multiple Choice

Someone with focal brain damage in their left hemisphere

• A) will have problems with understanding new situations.
• B) will have anterograde amnesia.
• C) will have problems with processing language.
• D) will have problems with nonverbal reasoning.

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Definitions:

Framing Error

The tendency to highlight certain aspects of a situation depending on whether they are positive or negative to solve a problem while ignoring other aspects.

Confirmation Bias

The tendency to seek out information that fuels our preexisting views and to discount information that conflicts with our worldview.

Randomness Error

Variability in data or outcomes that cannot be attributed to any specific cause, often seen as noise in experimental or statistical analyses.

Anchoring And Adjustment

A cognitive bias where an individual depends too heavily on an initial piece of information (anchor) when making decisions and makes insufficient adjustments based on subsequent information.