The Prefrontal Cortex

question 43

Multiple Choice

The prefrontal cortex:

• A)seems to encode emotional qualities associated with particular memories.
• B)seems to play an important role in working memory.
• C)encodes information about the location where a particular memory occurred.
• D)plays a critical role in the ability to form memories of numerical concepts.

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Definitions:

Norman Triplett

A psychologist known for conducting one of the earliest experiments in social psychology about the effects of competition on performance.

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Max Ringelmann

A French agricultural engineer who discovered that individuals exert less effort on a task when they work in a group compared to when working alone, known as the Ringelmann effect.