Define transcortical sensory aphasia, and explain how this syndrome differs from Wernicke's aphasia.
What will be an ideal response?
Damage to both Wernicke's area and the posterior language area produces an aphasia syndrome that includes poor speech comprehension, poor repetition, and production of fluent but meaningless speech. Damage to the posterior language area alone produces poor speech comprehension and poor speech production.
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Which of the following is a disadvantage of using a within subjects design?
a. the variability due to participants cannot be estimated statistically b. treatment order may have an effect on the dependent variable c. a large number of participants is required d. the experimental and control groups may not be equivalent to one another
Matching can reduce the precision of your experiment if
a. the variable on which you match is not highly correlated with the dependent variable b. the variable on which you match is too highly correlated with the dependent variable c. the matching variable and the dependent variable are the same d. None of these are true. Matching always increases the precision of an experiment.
Tetrodotoxin from puffer fish interferes with the formation of action potentials by blocking
A. voltage-dependent sodium channels. B. voltage-dependent potassium channels. C. ligand-gated sodium channels. D. ligand-gated potassium channels.
Linda's mother and father give her considerable freedom to choose her friends and activities, but they also pay careful attention to where she is, what she is doing, and whom she is with
Her parents' attention to knowing about Linda's activities is what researchers mean by the term: a. parental warmth b. social comparison c. interdependence d. parental monitoring