Use localization of function to predict deficits
Three steps, the way the exam actually works: work through the lab, write down your own observations, then answer a 6-point free response. What you recorded goes to the grader with your writing, so a conclusion that does not follow from your own evidence will cost you the point — exactly as it would with a real reader.
Predict before you look
- Damage to one region can disrupt a behavior without that region being the sole cause of it. State the difference between those two claims.
- Which would you expect to be more tightly localized: seeing a color, or planning next week’s schedule? Commit before you click.
Nothing to submit here — these are to think through, so the prediction below is an informed one rather than a guess.
Commit to an answer now. It is not graded and being wrong costs nothing — the point is to have something specific to reconcile against once you have the data.
Answer every prediction to unlock the lab. A sentence is enough.
Run the investigation
Predictions first
The procedure and the simulation unlock once you have committed above. Observing before predicting is how a wrong intuition survives a lab intact.
Record what you found
This is your reading of the source, not ours. The grader sees them, so your conclusions have to follow from what you actually recorded.
| Primary frontal-lobe role | |
|---|---|
| Primary occipital-lobe role | |
| Primary hippocampus role | |
| Primary amygdala role | |
| Primary cerebellum role |
Answer the free response
The brain lab is strongest when you use it to predict consequences, not just recite names. (a) Explain why damage to the hippocampus impairs new long-term memory formation without necessarily erasing every older memory. (b) Contrast the likely symptoms of damage to the occipital lobe and damage to the cerebellum. (c) Explain why the amygdala and frontal lobe can both matter in emotional behavior even though they do different jobs. (d) A student says brain localization means each behavior belongs to exactly one tiny spot. Evaluate that claim.
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