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Sportsfan2111

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Brendan is a one-year-old boy and recently suffered an injury to the part of the brain that controls language. On examining him, the neurologist says that other areas of the brain will assume functions of the damaged part and he will not lose the ability to speak or understand a language. The neurologist bases this diagnosis on the _____ of Brendan's brain.
 
  A) plasticity
  B) carcinogenicity
  C) elasticity
  D) immunogenicity

Question 2

Which of the following is best described as a kind of motor memory of how to do things?
 
  A) Episodic memory
  B) Semantic memory
  C) Sensory memory
  D) Procedural memory


komodo7

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

D


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