If a Patient Has Severe Damage to the Prefrontal Cortex

question 190

Multiple Choice

If a patient has severe damage to the prefrontal cortex, he might have difficulty

• A)identifying visually complex materials.
• B)planning, paying attention, and getting organized.
• C)identifying objects by touch.
• D)hearing sounds.

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Definitions:

Obedience Studies

Psychological research investigating how individuals comply with authority, notably exemplified by Stanley Milgram's experiments in the 1960s.

Refuse To Participate

The act of declining to take part in an activity, study, or experiment.

Risky Shift

The phenomenon where a group collectively decides on a course of action that is more extreme than they would have decided individually.

Group Polarization

The tendency for a group to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclination of its members following group discussion.