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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.

Difficulty: Medium

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 / Approach
Show 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 Answer
QSPR

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