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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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

The null hypothesis is a statement that there is no effect or no difference, and it serves as the assumption to be tested in statistical analyses.

T-test

A statistical method employed to assess if there's a significant difference between the average values of two distinct groups.

Critical Value

A point on the test distribution that is compared with the test statistic to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Alpha

The level of significance in statistical testing, representing the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true.