All of the following are symptoms of someone who had damage to Wernicke’s area except
a. the inability to speak
b. the inability to comprehend
c. utter neologisms (novel words)
d. lesion or damage in an area of the left hemisphere
Ans: a
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d. The child likes to relate to other children.
Which of the following does NOT support the notion that perception becomes more active through childhood?
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Anytime an experimenter thinks his or her study will involve some degree of subjectivity
in measuring the dependent variable, he or she should take steps to a. counterbalance the order of stimulus presentation. b. randomly assign subjects to groups. c. control for confounding of variables. d. produce high interrater reliability. e. utilize a valid control group.