Psy 121.3 March 12 2025: Worst Case Scenario
The purpose of this in-class exercise is to integrate the Contusion Report with the Field Sobriety Test.
Case A Grandfather
Subject Variables 55 y.o. Male
Contusion Location Left Frontal Lobe
Medical Diagnosis
Sobriety Test
Legal Ramifications
Case B Grandmother
Subject Variables 53 y.o. Female
Contusion Location Right Temporal Lobe
Medical Diagnosis
Sobriety Test
Legal Ramifications
Case C Son-in-Law
Subject Variables 25 y.o Male
Contusion Location Left Upper Parietal Lobe
Medical Diagnosis
Sobriety Test
Legal Ramifications
Case D Daughter
Subject Variables 23 y.o. Female
Contusion Location Right Occipital Lobe
Medical Diagnosis
Sobriety Test
Legal Ramifications
Case E Grand-daughter
Subject Variables: 2 y.o. Female
Contusion Location: Left Cerebellum
Medical Diagnosis
Legal Ramifications
Note: Subject Variables is the age and gender of the case.
The next section is called an amalgam; although the incident itself is a fiction, the conditions of the cases are drawn from reality.
A short descritpion of what led up to the incident. There was a family gathering, when the grandmother had smoked a marijuana cigarette with her old school friends; the marijuana being a black-market product nearly 100 times stronger than what she had tried in her twenties. She was by her own admission 'too stoned to drive'. Her husband had offerred to drive, but he had drank three strontg Belgian beers of 12% alcohol.
The son-in-law had just come off a 24-hour shift due to an emergency at the mines, and was reluctant to drive because he had ingested a fairly large dose of methamphetamines. His wife--the daughter of the grandfather and mother--had experienced a difficult birth of her son, and had to resort to oxycodone to relieve her excruciating back pains.
The SUV flips on a hill on Highway 5, rolls, but lands right side up. There are no broken bones, or external bleeding. It takes two weeks to get scheduled MRIs for the family. During that time, their behaviour changes. The daughter notices the her baby cannot use a long spoon for ice cream, a skill she learned before the accident.
You need to use the 3d brain model in the Immersive Training Lab to illustrate the location of the contusions. Use notes and arrows on top of the picture your phone grabs from the screen.
Your team does not have to come up with correct answers for the medical diagnosis, and the legal ramifications, you only have to ask pertinent questions. An example would be: "If the grandfather's blood alcohol level was 0.08%, would he be considered responsible for the incident?"