A Patient Who Has Difficulty Finding Words and Has Laborious

question 25

Multiple Choice

A patient who has difficulty finding words and has laborious, slow, and halting speech is showing signs of:

• A) nonfluent aphasia.
• B) fluent aphasia.
• C) transcortical syndrome.
• D) word deafness.

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Definitions:

Fiedler's Contingency Theory

A leadership model asserting that the effectiveness of a leader's style is contingent on the situational context, including the leader's relationships with followers and task structure.

LPC

Least Preferred Coworker scale, a tool used in Fiedler's Contingency Theory to measure a leader's task or relationship orientation.

Leadership

The act or ability of leading a group towards achieving a common goal, often involving inspiring and guiding others.

Low LPC Leader

A leadership style characterized by a primary focus on completing tasks and obtaining results over building relationships, according to the Least Preferred Coworker (LPC) theory.