Suppose you're pitching in a baseball game facing a good hitter. You remember that you struck him out with a fastball the last time he was up. You also remember that your coach told you always to try to be unpredictable, so you decide to throw a curve ball this time. In making this decision, you are primarily using your
A) central executive.
B) fight-or-flight response.
C) modality-specific memory.
D) long-term potentiation.
E) encoding executive.

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The central executive is responsible for making decisions and planning strategies, which is exactly what is happening in this scenario. The pitcher is considering his past success with the fastball and his coach's advice to mix things up, ultimately using the central executive to decide to throw a curve ball. None of the other options are directly related to decision making in this context.

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