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6. What term is used to describe when someone has problems with speech production resulting in agrammatism, reduced speech and lack of comprehension?
- Semantic anomia
- Wernicke's aphasia
- Broca's aphasia
- Perceptual anomia
7. Who conducted the studies on split brain patients?
- Kay & Ellis (1987)
- Gazzaniga & Sperry
- Wallington & Shallice (1984)
- Hart, Berndt & Caramazza (1985)
8. What term is used to describe problems understanding speech resulting in fluent speech but it is unintelligible due to word errors?
- Perceptual anomia
- Wernicke's aphasia
- Broca's aphasia
- Semantic anomia
9. Who studied patient JRB who had semantic anomia?
- Kay & Ellis (1987)
- Wallington & Shallice (1984)
- Hart, Berndt & Caramazza (1985)
- Ellis (1983)
10. Speech of anomic aphasics contains many phonological errors
11. For neutral words, early acquired words are used less frequently
12. When patients are known as having "split brains" which part of the brain has been severed?
- Temporal lobe
- Corpus callosum
- Hippocampus
- Cerebellum
13. Split brain patients see words equally as well in both visual fields
- False- RVF is better
- False- LVF is better
- True
14. Is recognition of familiar objects the same as unfamiliar objects?
- No- familiar objects are recognised slower than unfamiliar objects
- No- recognition is fast for familiar objects but is slow/ nonexistent for unfamiliar objects
- Yes- they are recognised at the same speed
15. Kay & Ellis (1987) conducted a study with patient EST who had perceptual anomia, what were their symptoms?
- Bad category sorting
- Fluent grammatical speech
- Good at naming pictures but bad understanding
- All of the above
16. What symptoms did patient RD show (Ellis, 1983)?
- All of the above
- Unable to read words aloud
- Good understanding of written words and pictures
- Good at sorting words into categories
17. For patients with aphasia or anomia, TOT phenomenon does not happen
18. Semantic representations and the spoken names for objects are retrieved at the same time
- False- they are retrieved independently of each other
- True