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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

  • False
  • True

11. For neutral words, early acquired words are used less frequently

  • False
  • True

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

  • False
  • True

18. Semantic representations and the spoken names for objects are retrieved at the same time

  • False- they are retrieved independently of each other
  • True