Which of the following statements regarding aphasia is true?
A. People with Broca's aphasia are unable to comprehend speech.
B. Wernicke's aphasia results in fluent, grammatical streams of speech that lack meaning.
C. Wernicke's area is responsible for the inability to produce speech.
D. People with Broca's aphasia often have damage or lesions in the same region of the parietal lobe.
Answer: B
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Which of the following students provides the best summary of the research on children's metamemory?
a. Arthur: "Children understand some of the characteristics of memory, but they don't realize that you need to make a real effort in order to memorize something." b. Maya: "Children have very little awareness of any aspects of metacognition until they have reached school age." c. Katarina: "Children develop metacognitive abilities much earlier than psychologists had previously suspected; these skills are quite sophisticated by the time children reach school age." d. Luke: "Unfortunately, it is difficult to assess cognitive skills in preschool children; but 5-year-olds have metacognitive skills that resemble the skills of 10-year-olds."
What is critical for selecting information to process in working memory?
A. the ability to emotionally connect to the information B. the ability to focus and switch attention C. repeating information D. good eye-hand coordination.
The Bayley Scales for Infant Development assess __________.
A. expressive, receptive, and long-term skills B. cognitive, language, and motor skills C. psychomotor, cognitive, and physiological skills D. adaptive, social-emotional, and personality skills
The ___________ level of activity in the ___________ cortex during REM sleep is reflective of visual hallucinations that occur during dreaming
a. high; extrastriate b. high; striate c. low; extrastriate d. low; striate