Psychology 1003A/B Lecture Notes - Gestalt Therapy, Psychotherapy, Behaviour Therapy

26. To understand a very unique set of unusual behaviors of a single adult client, a clinical psychologist carefully investigates the client's life situation, and his physical, social, and educational history. This psychologist conducted a(n) a. case study. b. meta-analysis. c. experimental study. d. correlational study.

In 2 to 3 sentences describe one example in which a neuropsychological patient has been found to perform appropriate behaviors and response to visual stimuli, even without consciously experiencing those stimuli (blindsight) make sure to describe both which visual brain regions are damaged in the patient to cause their loss of conscious awareness as well as which visual brain regions are still preserved to enable some preserved visual processing even without awareness.