McCarthy and Warrington Observed That Some Patients Showed Impairment to a Passive

question 9

Multiple Choice

McCarthy and Warrington observed that some patients showed impairment to a passive phonological store involved in unrelated word list repetition, but were good at repeating sentences, and others showed an impairment to a memory system involving meaningful sentence repetition, but could repeat lists of unrelated words. This is called:

• A)Alignment
• B)Backwards translation
• C)Central translation
• D)Association
• E)Double dissociation

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