It takes your patient 20 minutes to drive to your office. She left her house at 9:50 am for a 10:00 am appointment. This suggests she struggles with...

• A. Planning
• B. Dual-tasking
• C. Working memory
• D. Reasoning

Answer: (A)

Planning involves anticipating what will be needed and arranging actions to meet a goal. Here, leaving at 9:50 for a 10:00 appointment when the drive takes 20 minutes means arriving around 10:10. That shows an underestimation of the time required and an inadequate plan to arrive on time, which points to a planning difficulty. If the issue were dual-tasking, working memory, or reasoning, the signs would look different—for example, juggling two tasks at once, keeping time and steps in mind, or drawing conclusions from information—whereas this scenario mainly reflects how time and steps are organized ahead of the appointment.