LECTURE 11- NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Question 1

what is anomia

Answer 1

impaired ability to name Everday objects, problems with word retrieval, no problem with comprehension- they might describe an object instead of naming it.

Problems are at aa PHONOLIGCAL LEVEL

Question 2

what is agrammatism

Answer 2

difficulties producing grammatically correct sentences. they may miss function words .

Problems are at LEXICAL LEVEL

Question 3

what is jargon aphasia

Answer 3

speech is grammatically correct but have difficulties accessing correct words, they may substitute words for another or produce neologisms (made up words).

Problems are at a PHONOLOGICAL LEVEL