AP PSYCHOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR

THE CEREBRAL CORTEX

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Makes decisions, plans for the future, reasons, and carries out behaviors
A
Frontal Lobe
B
Parietal Lobe
C
Occipital Lobe
D
Temporal Lobe
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The frontal lobe is involved in reasoning, motor control, emotion, and language. It contains the motor cortex, which is involved in planning and coordinating movement; the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for higher-level cognitive functioning; and Broca’s area, which is essential for language production.

Detailed explanation-2: -The frontal lobes subserve decision-making and executive control-that is, the selection and coordination of goal-directed behaviors. Current models of frontal executive function, however, do not explain human decision-making in everyday environments featuring uncertain, changing, and especially open-ended situations.

Detailed explanation-3: -The frontal lobes are important for voluntary movement, expressive language and for managing higher level executive functions. Executive functions refer to a collection of cognitive skills including the capacity to plan, organise, initiate, self-monitor and control one’s responses in order to achieve a goal.

Detailed explanation-4: -Your frontal lobe is at the front of your brain behind your forehead. Functions of your frontal lobe include: Decision-making, problem-solving. Conscious thought.

Detailed explanation-5: -A brain area in the anterior lateral prefrontal cortex is crucial for estimating our future chances of success. This advance sense of how we will fare determines the tasks that we are most likely to attempt and those that we might forgo.

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