What are the names and roles of the four lobes of the cerebral cortex?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: A good answer will include the following key points.
? Frontal lobes—sending commands to skeletal muscles, short-term memory, emotion, making plans, thinking creatively, taking initiative, speech.
? Occipital lobes—visual processing.
? Parietal lobes—processing touch information, attention, various mental operations.
? Temporal lobes—processing auditory information, memory, perception, emotion, language comprehension.
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a. methodology pluralism. b. theoretical ecumenism. c. the rhetoric of justification. d. pseudoscience.
Dr. Park identified 20 restrictive eaters (people who constantly monitor and limit their caloric intake) and 20 matched control participants. She then manipulated whether each group of participants had or had not just consumed a high calorie milkshake prior to taking part in a "taste test" of chocolate chip cookies. She found that whereas the control participants ate fewer cookies than usual
after having just consumed the shake, the restrictive eaters actually ate more. Dr. Park's study is: A) a person-by-treatment quasi-experiment B) a natural experiment C) a laboratory experiment D) a clinical evaluation experiment