A Patient Who Cannot Locate the Position of Her Limbs

question 25

Multiple Choice

A patient who cannot locate the position of her limbs in space unless she is looking at them is suffering from a loss of:

• A) enteroception.
• B) hapsis.
• C) nociception.
• D) proprioception.

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Definitions:

Matched Pairs

A study design where subjects are paired based on certain criteria, with one member of each pair receiving the treatment and the other serving as a control.

Ordinal Data

Data that is categorized based on order or ranking, but where the intervals between the categories are not necessarily consistent or known.

Normally Distributed

Describing a distribution that follows a normal curve, with most observations clustering around the mean and tapering off symmetrically towards the extremes.

Sign Test

A non-parametric test used to evaluate the difference between the median of a paired sample and a hypothesized value.