Para-jumble (thinking without language): Reorder the sentences to contrast naming and reading failures with preserved conceptual play in chess. S1 = "The study of speech disorders due to brain injury suggests that patients can think without having adequate control over their language." S6 = "How they manage to do this we do not know." Between S1 and S6, arrange the clinical evidence in a revealing contrast: P = "But they succeed in playing games of chess." Q = "Some patients, for example, fail to find the names of objects presented to them." R = "They can even use the concepts needed for chess playing, though they are unable to express many of the concepts in ordinary language." S = "They even find it difficult to interpret long written notices." Choose the correct sequence of P–Q–R–S that completes the paragraph.
Verbal Ability
Ordering of Sentences
Difficulty: Medium
Choose an option
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APSQR
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BRPSQ
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CQSPR
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DSRPQ
Answer
Correct Answer: QSPR
Explanation
Given data
- Q: naming failure (anomia) in object recognition tasks.
- S: difficulty interpreting long written notices (reading comprehension).
- P: nevertheless, success at chess.
- R: conceptual competence for chess despite limited language expression.
Concept / ApproachShow linguistic impairments first (Q, S), then contrast with intact problem-solving (P, R), to support S1's thesis that some thought is possible without full language control.
Final AnswerQSPR