When You Ask a Patient to Close Her or His

question 19

Multiple Choice

When you ask a patient to close her or his eyes and identify an object placed in the hand, you are evaluating:

• A) stereognosis.
• B) graphesthesia.
• C) vibratory sensation.
• D) extinction phenomenon.

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Definitions:

Population Proportion

The ratio or fraction of members in a population that have a particular characteristic, often denoted by P.

Sample Proportion

The fraction of the sample that displays a certain property or characteristic.

Null Hypothesis

The null hypothesis is a statement used in statistical testing that proposes there is no significant difference or effect, serving as the default assumption to be tested against.

Level of Significance

The threshold below which a p-value is considered statistically significant, typically set at 0.05 or 5%, indicating the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true.