AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Damage to the temporal lobes can result in: Difficulty in understanding spoken words (Receptive Aphasia) Disturbance with selective attention to what we see and hear. Difficulty with identification and categorisation of objects. Difficulty learning and retaining new information.

Detailed explanation-2: -The temporal lobes are highly associated with memory skills. Left temporal lesions result in impaired memory for verbal material. Right side lesions result in recall of non-verbal material, such as music and drawings. Seizures of the temporal lobe can have dramatic effects on an individual’s personality.

Detailed explanation-3: -The temporal lobe is responsible for phonological awareness and decoding/discriminating sounds. The frontal lobe handles speech production, reading fluency, grammatical usage, and comprehension, making it possible to understand simple and complex grammar in our native language.