Since her stroke, Mrs Adeyemi's right arm and leg have been weak, and she cannot grip a cup firmly enough to lift it. Her speech and her understanding of what people say are unchanged. Her husband says she has become impatient and quick to anger, and she often loses track halfway through a recipe she has cooked many times.
Use your knowledge of the effects of neurological damage to explain Mrs Adeyemi's difficulties.
88 exam-style questions on Oxford AQA IGCSE Psychology 1.3 Biopsychology, covering 1.3.1 Divisions of the nervous system, 1.3.2 The endocrine system, 1.3.3 Autonomic nervous system and fight or flight, 1.3.4 James-Lange theory of emotion, 1.3.5 Structure and function of neurons, 1.3.6 Synaptic transmission, 1.3.7 Hebb's theory of learning, 1.3.8 Brain structure, 1.3.9 Localisation of function in the brain, 1.3.10 Penfield's study of the interpretive cortex, 1.3.11 Cognitive neuroscience, 1.3.12 Brain scanning techniques, 1.3.13 Tulving's 'gold' memory study, and 1.3.14 Effects of neurological damage. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.