Criminology - 2.1-2.2

Why is it the case that Phineas Gage does not represent "good" evidence to use in IB psychology?

• He wasn't very nice to women

• He did not immediately see a doctor about his brain injury

• Psychologists did not rigorously study his case while he was alive

• His personality changed too much after the incident

This area of the brain is associated with reasoning, planning, thinking, and decision-making.

• Parietal

• Occipital

• Frontal

• Temporal

Paul Broca discovered Broca's area in the brain. What is this part of the brain responsible for?

• Speech comprehension

• Speech Production ("articulation")

• Speech comprehension and speech articulation

• Planning

What is the most important lobe of the brain for higher order thinking?

• Parietal
• Temporal
• Frontal
• Occipital
• Hippocampus

What is involved with memory, emotion, and fear?

• Hippocampus
• Hypothalamus
• Thalamus
• Amygdala
• temporal-occipital junction

what machine is used to locate the area of brain damage?

• MRI

• Exercise Bike

• X-ray

• PET

what specific part of the brain was damaged in the participants in Bechara et al.'s study?

• ventromedial prefrontal coretex

• neocortex

• venomous prefrontal cortex

• venorbital prefrontal cortex

what is the name of the task used in Bechara et al's study?

• Marshmallow test

• dual task paradigm

• Iowa gambling task

• Stroop Test

what are the two types of processing called

• system 1 & system 2

• Processing & judgment

• Impulse and Expulse

• Cognition and mental processing

check characteristics of system 1 processing

• Intuitive

• automatic

• automatic

• based on emotion

• slow