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Title: What can we conclude from research looking at the 'hot hand' in basketball?
Post by: RRMR on Oct 28, 2020

Question 1

What area of the brain has been identified as critical to emotional processing and memory?
◦ The cortex
◦ The prefrontal cortex
◦ the limbic system
◦ the occipital lobe

Question 2

What can we conclude from research looking at the 'hot hand' in basketball?
◦ There is support for the notion that a basketball player is more likely to make a basket following a hit rather than a miss.
◦ People often tend to see patterns in truly random sequences.
◦ People make judgments based on the ease with which they can recall relevant examples.
◦ People often fail to consider personality information when estimating the likelihood of an event.

Title: What can we conclude from research looking at the 'hot hand' in basketball?
Post by: mohan on Oct 28, 2020

Answer 1

the limbic system

Answer 2

People often tend to see patterns in truly random sequences.