A person who has a serious problem in the production of meaningful speech and the
comprehension of speech may be suffering from
a. Broca's aphasia.
b. Wernicke's aphasia.
c. isolation aphasia.
d. phonological dyslexia.
e. agrammatism.
b. Wernicke's aphasia.
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a. hypnosis c. projective tests and self-report inventories b. neurological evaluation d. free association and dream analysis
A woman is involved in a car crash and, as a result, cannot speak at all for several days. Surprisingly, she can still hear and understand what her doctor is saying perfectly well. If her doctor ordered a CAT scan of her brain (a form of X-ray), where might the doctor see damage/swelling?
A. in her pineal gland B. in her right parietal lobe C. in her left frontal lobe D. in both sides of her motor cortex
According to the concept of topographical mapping, which of the following stimuli encountered on a beach trip will activate the farthest forward in the visual cortex?
A. A yellow kite in the sky B. A white sailboat on the horizon C. A pink beachball on your towel D. A green popsicle in your hand
Roger Sperry and his colleagues discovered that information could be transferred from one cerebral hemisphere to the other via the:
a. corpus callosum and optic chiasm b. corpus callosum and amygdala c. hippocampus and optic chiasm d. hippocampus and optic amygdala