The Gardners taught Washoe a manual language

a. to eliminate confounding variables such as prosody, accent, and tone of voice.
b. because chimpanzees cannot produce the variety of speech sounds that humans can.
c. to provide some control over vocabulary.
d. to reduce the possibility that researchers would demonstrate the meaning of a word with
their hands.
e. because she suffered from Wernicke's aphasia.

b. because chimpanzees cannot produce the variety of speech sounds that humans
can.

Psychology

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Agrammatism is the inability to

a. recognize spoken words. b. comprehend deep structure. c. produce and comprehend speech that is syntactically complex. d. recognize the cues for grammatical features of a sentence. e. speak any language other than one's first language.

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Bill suddenly and without warning slips into REM sleep during the day. He often falls to the ground and is difficult to awaken. Bill may have a condition called

a. sleep apnea. b. insomnia. c. narcolepsy. d. epilepsy.

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