Stroke Patients with Damage to the _____________ Had Difficulty Filtering

question 34

Multiple Choice

Stroke patients with damage to the _____________ had difficulty filtering out irrelevant information, and patients with damage to the _______________ had difficulty retaining more than a few pieces of information in short-term memory.

• A) left basal ganglia; right prefrontal cortex
• B) right basal ganglia; right prefrontal cortex
• C) left basal ganglia; left prefrontal cortex
• D) right basal ganglia; left prefrontal cortex
• E) right basal ganglia; anterior cingulate cortex

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Definitions:

Extinction

In conditioning, the process by which a conditioned response diminishes and eventually disappears following repeated exposure to the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus.

Spontaneous Recovery

Spontaneous recovery refers to the reappearance of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a period of non-exposure to the conditioned stimulus.

Conditioned Responses

Conditioned responses are the behaviors that result from the association between a previously neutral stimulus and a conditioned stimulus through conditioning.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening of a conditioned response by not reinforcing the conditioning stimulus.