A Patient Speaks in a Fluent Manner, Although His Speech

question 18

Multiple Choice

A patient speaks in a fluent manner, although his speech contains many paraphasias that make it unintelligible. He also demonstrates poor comprehension of verbal material. This patient is most likely suffering from _______ aphasia.

• A) Wernicke's
• B) Broca's
• C) conduction
• D) global

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Definitions:

Bell Shaped Distribution

A probability distribution that forms a symmetric bell-shaped curve, commonly associated with the normal distribution.

Coefficient of Variation

A uniform metric showing the spread of a probability or frequency distribution as a percentage relative to the average.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variation of a set of data points from their mean.

Variance

A measure of how much the values in a dataset vary or deviate from the mean, technically the average of the squared differences from the Mean.