Patients with a Specific Form of Amnesia Have Been Found

question 21

Multiple Choice

Patients with a specific form of amnesia have been found to have poor explicit memory for newly presented material compared to a matched control group of participants with no memory disorders, but show implicit memory for the material that is comparable to that of the control group. Based on this finding, which of the following would be expected?

• A) The patients will do as well as the control group on a test of free recall.
• B) The patients will do better than the control group on a yes/no recognition test.
• C) The patients will do as well as the control group on a word stem completion test.
• D) The patients will do worse than the control group on a word stem completion test.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The quantity of autonomous numbers or measures that can be allocated to a statistical distribution while still adhering to all restrictions.

Sample Size

The number of observations or elements drawn from a larger population for the purpose of statistical analysis.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that there is no effect or no difference, and it serves as the default assumption in statistical hypothesis testing.

Correlation Coefficient

A statistical index ranging from -1 to 1 that measures the degree of association between two variables.