PSY 442 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Psy, Neuropsychology, Aphasia
29 Jul 2020
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Despite possible criticisms of the difficulty of replicating the results obtained in the single-case studies (caplan, 1986; grodzinsky, 1991), the study of groups is also not exempt from certain criticisms related to these issues. One of themost questioned ectos of this study methodology refers to the homogeneity of patients who fall within classical syndromes who are given the same label. All the balesgrouped under the same syndrome should have altered the same processing mechanism, and the altered language functions should be those in which that processing mechanism was involved. In classical syndromes, however, subjects are grouped according to the alteration of a group of functions that respond to different mechanisms or processing components, violating the requirements of homogeneity in group research (caramazza, 1984; marshall, 1986). Different studies by different authors show us this great variability that exists when trying to do a neuropsychology of syndromes.
