As a scientist, you wonder whether a brain region in the par…
As a scientist, you wonder whether a brain region in the parietal cortex plays a role in attention. To answer the question, you devise an experiment that will temporarily inhibit function in the region. While the region is inhibited, you measure a participant’s ability to complete an attentional task. Which method is the most appropriate to answer your question?
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You have set aside 2 hours to study for an exam in this course, and you are currently deciding to review the new terms, writing down any terms that you cannot define. Which feature of Baddeley’s working memory model handles this planning activity?
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Suppose that a doctor decides that a patient has a cold, rather than a much rarer disease, Disease X. She decides the disease is a cold, even though one symptom is fairly typical of Disease X and fairly atypical of a cold. This doctor is
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