After Suffering a Head Injury, Kent Began Having Difficulty Planning

question 149

Multiple Choice

After suffering a head injury, Kent began having difficulty planning, and his personality changed. Kent appears to have suffered damage to his brain's

• A) right hemisphere.
• B) left hemisphere.
• C) corpus callosum.
• D) frontal cortex.

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Definitions:

Persuasive Argument Theory

A theory suggesting that the process of persuasion involves the presentation of arguments, which leads to attitude change when the arguments are received and accepted by an individual.

Actor-observer Difference

A cognitive bias where people tend to attribute their own actions to external situations while attributing others' actions to their personalities or dispositions.

Bias

A tendency to lean in a certain direction, often unfairly, in thought or decision, usually leading to a prejudiced outcome.

Halo Effect

A cognitive bias where an impression created in one area influences opinion in another area.