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Becca has been working with four other students in a group for the past semester. Over the semester her group members have learned that Becca is always late to meetings and she always seems to do her portion of group projects at the last minute. Although they tried to take turns working at each group member’s apartment, they found that they had to skip Becca’s turn because her apartment was so disorganized and messy. Based only on the description above, which of the Big 5 personality dimensions would Becca score LOW in?

An individual whose brain has been seriously damaged at the location marked with a “B” in the diagram below is most likely to experience which of the following deficits:

When Yuri entered college, his political beliefs were somewhat liberal. On a scale from -1 (most conservative) to 1 (most liberal), Yuri would have been about a 0.5. During his first year in college, Yuri joined a number of student organizations that were made up of members that were all also somewhat liberal. At the end of his four years in college, Yuri’s political beliefs had become even more liberal than when he started college. On the same scale as above, he would now be about a 0.9. The change in Yuri’s political beliefs that occurred over his four years of college is most consistent with what psychological phenomenon?

A nurse is educating a patient about what to do for a hypoglycemic episode. The nurse knows that the patient understands the instructions when they state:

Jodie is a neurologist examining a new patient who recently had a stroke. She first asks the patient to draw a picture of a clock and of a house. The patient draws the images in Panel A of image below (i.e., omits the left side of both the clock and the house). Jodie also asks the patient to read all the words in Panel B of the image below. The patient responds, “Shovel, Motor, Step, Door” (i.e., only reads the words on the right side of the paper). Jodie then says, it looks like you missed some and points to the left side of the paper. The patient responds, “Oh, I didn’t even notice those!” Based upon the behavior above, the brain region that Jodie would suspect had been damaged by the stroke is marked with the letter _____ in the image below.

Kelly would not normally pay more than $15 for a jazz concert. However, after being given 2 free tickets to a jazz concert this weekend, Kelly says that they are clearly worth over $40 each when another person wants to buy her tickets. This is an example of what decision-making issue?

Your aunt is directing a middle school theater production, but her actors are struggling to learn their lines. What advice would you give her?

Shauna is a researcher interested in the development of intelligence and language. She brings 100 children into the lab. She gives the children a vocabulary test (i.e., tests how many words they know) and an intelligence test. When she plots her data, she sees the following graph: Based upon the methods she used and her results, what can Shauna conclude?

The part of the brain that was removed in Patient H.M. is found in which lobe of the brain?

Elliott lost the ability to exhibit emotion. Although he cognitively recognized when he should be experiencing certain emotions, he simply didn’t have those subjective experiences. The part of Elliott’s brain that was damaged is labeled ______ in the diagram below.