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psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus

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TC was significantly correlated with omission errors (r = .40, p = .01), but not with commission errors or perseverations (all p's >.19).
of 1 1.59(0.33 to 7.77) perseverations (c) Short-term auditory memory functions Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised Digit Span 2.0(0.1 to 3.9) -0.3(-1.0 to 0.5) Test (b), (d) Stanford-Binet Digit String 4.1(3.0 to 5.2) -0.0(-0.4 to 0.4) Test (b), (d) Memory for Sentences 0.9(-4.8 to 6.5) 0.2(-2.0 to 2.5) Test (b), (d) Visual-performance functions Raven Test Total score (b) 15.7(91 to 22.3) -0.5(-3.1 to 2.0) Stanford-Binet Copying Test No.
Anticipations, perseverations, metatheses, misorderings and some additions are contextual errors.
To investigate whether the greater differences between groups on the error measure in the more difficult tasks, as compared with the simple search task, could be ascribed specifically to the incidence of errors on the similar foils in difficult single target search (henceforth referred to as 'close errors') and failures to alternate (perseverations) in alternating search, errors in these two conditions were subdivided and means on these two specific types and on all other errors in each of the two conditions were calculated (other errors consisted largely of shape confusions, plus some colour confusions, clicks on background and repetitions on targets).
The rate of non-perseverative intrusions was also higher than the rate of perseveration in similar lists in the across-channel condition, although marginally (t[15] =.
The total number of words generated was obtained by counting the number produced by each participant excluding perseverations, errors, and proper nouns.
Their communicative deficits have been well documented and may include poor memory, poor judgement, poor word finding skills, poor comprehension of spoken and written material, poor expressive language skills, verbal perseverations of words and ideas, poor topic maintenance, poor turn taking, poor discourse skills, and general disorientation or confusion.
The effort to make doom entertaining, even beautiful, distinguishes their work from that of other avant-garde Japanese choreographers based in New York: the disconnected structures of Yoshiko Chuma, the grim perseverations of Kei Takei.
- Complex attention: Phonemic and semantic fluency tests (animal naming; words with letters of K, A, and S; and perseverations).
The total execution time, total correct and error scores, and the types of errors (distortions, omissions, perseverations, rotations, and misplacements) for both copy and memory tasks were analyzed.
Caccappolo-van Vliet, "Perseverations in Alzheimer's disease: memory slips?" Cortex, vol.
We found significant differences in three indices of mnesic accuracy: perseverations (F = 4.376; p < 0.005), intrusions (F = 4.105; p < 0.05) and false positives (F = 10.941; p < 0.001).