The Brain Injury Suffered by 19th-Century Railroad Worker Phineas Gage

question 12

Multiple Choice

The brain injury suffered by 19th-century railroad worker Phineas Gage allowed psychologists to learn about the functions of the brain's:

• A)association areas.
• B)central core.
• C)limbic system.
• D)sensory areas.

---

Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean.

Distribution

The way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area, or the arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence.

Variance

A statistical measure of dispersion that shows how much values in a data set differ from the mean.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean, used to assess the spread of a data distribution.