Research on the Effects of Brain Injury on Language Development

question 104

Multiple Choice

Research on the effects of brain injury on language development shows that:

• A) adults are more severely affected by right hemisphere damage than left hemisphere damage, but children are not.
• B) children are more severely affected by left hemisphere damage than right hemisphere damage, but adults are not.
• C) both children and adults are more severely affected by left hemisphere damage.
• D) children are affected about equally by left and right hemisphere damage.

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Definitions:

Recognition

A measure of memory in which the person identifies items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test.

Recall

The ability to access information or memories that have been previously encoded and stored in the brain.

Recognition

The identification of something as having been previously seen, heard, known, or experienced; often involves memory retrieval.

Slides

Thin slices of material, typically glass, that are used to hold objects for examination under a microscope.