Maya is a medical student. During her neuropsychology rotation, Maya reviews a stroke patient’s brain scan and notices damage in the right posterior parietal cortex. She highlights the affected region to show the supervising doctor. In the labeled diagram below, the area she would highlight corresponds to which letter?

Justin and Kyle were best friends in elementary school. They sat next to each other in every class and spent every evening playing together. Occasionally they were joined in playing by Kyle’s next-door neighbor Ralph. During the summer when the boys turned 13, Justin moved to a new town and after that Kyle rarely saw him.  After Justin moved, Kyle start spending way more time with Ralph. They were on the soccer team and basketball team together during all four years in high school and they also took most of the same classes. Now, when Kyle thinks back to his time in elementary school, he incorrectly remembers that Ralph, not Justin, was his best friend in elementary school.    Kyle’s incorrect memory is most representative of which memory failure?

After the exam, Kelly takes a survey of the class and asks the students what environments they studied for the exam in. If nothing else was different between them, which of the following students would you predict performed the BEST on the exam? A student who studied on her back deck where it was generally quiet but part way through, her neighbor started a loud argument on the phone that she overheard. A student who studied in the library and checked her phone every 5 or so minutes in case her friends texted her.  A student who studied in the library and listened to a popular music station in their ear buds. A student who listened to lofi music through headphones to drown out the sound of her roommate on facetime. A student who had Love Island on in the background while he studied, which he was totally not invested in. 

Taylor works in advertising for a trampoline company. Their boss asks them to choose between two statements for the new ad campaign promoting the company’s latest trampoline model. Taylor wants to pick the statement that will maximize sales, relying on a their knowledge of human decision making. Which statement should Taylor choose, and which common decision making error are they relying on that will make this statement a more effective advertisement? Statement A: Jumpers agree: the new Bouncy‑Wouncy 3000 bounces you twelve whole inches higher than previous models! Statement B: Jumpers agree: the new Bouncy‑Wouncy 3000 bounces you one whole foot higher than previous models!

Use the following text to answer the question 5-6: After an accident, Leila suffered damage to their left occipital lobe. They are most likely to experience which of the following symptoms:

Which of the following is NOT a major lobe of the brain?

The Afghanistan War led to the rise of the Taliban and al Qaeda

Select the letter which indicates the likely area of damage in Leila’s brain.

President Jimmy Carter was a Peanut Farmer before being president.

Shawn’s fourth intervention is described below. At its core, what does this intervention package consist of?  Intraverbal Categorization (Labeling Items by Class) To teach Shawn that items belong to specific categories (e.g., a spatula is a “kitchen tool”), the therapist conducts five 5-min DTT sessions during each of Shawn’s days at the clinic. These sessions take place at a table in a therapy room. The therapist uses conditional discrimination training with an array of 5 cards of various items and the verbal instruction “Touch the (name of category)”. Correct independent responses result in a preferred edible item plus praise. Prompted correct responses result in praise alone. If Shawn makes an error, the therapist says “No”, points to the correct picture, and then runs 3 consecutive sequences of that same target with immediate prompts before moving on to the next trial (e.g., “No, touch the kitchen tool here. Touch the kitchen tool here. Touch the kitchen tool here.” while touching the spatula each time). In the first few sessions, the therapist immediately touches the correct card after delivering the verbal instruction. After those first few sessions, the therapist immediately provides a more subtle gesture to the correct response after the instruction. Finally, from session 7 onward, the therapist allows Shawn to perform the skill independently without delivering an immediate prompt.