Author Question: Professor Monahan is interested in the role of the hippocampus (a structure in the brain) in memory. ... (Read 61 times)

clippers! · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Professor Monahan is interested in the role of the hippocampus (a structure in the brain) in memory.

To study this connection, she locates an individual who had sustained a head injury in the region of the hippocampus, and she investigates the degree of memory loss associated with the injury. It appears that Professor Monahan is carrying out a study

a. using a between-subjects design.
b. in cognitive neuroscience.
c. in the area of psychophysics.
d. using a large-N design.

Question 2

Thorndike's use of the Puzzle Box allowed him to study

a. the nature of learning within individual cats.
b. the degree to which children could solve jigsaw puzzles within confined spaces.
c. whether or not a young infant could learn to become afraid of a white rat.
d. the behavior of groups of adolescents as the engaged in problem-solving tasks.