AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -People with Wernicke’s aphasia typically don’t realize they’re not making sense. This can lead to frustration as they are continually misunderstood.

Detailed explanation-2: -Damage to the temporal lobe of the brain may result in Wernicke’s aphasia (see figure), the most common type of fluent aphasia. People with Wernicke’s aphasia may speak in long, complete sentences that have no meaning, adding unnecessary words and even creating made-up words.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wernicke aphasia is characterized by impaired language comprehension. Despite this impaired comprehension, speech may have a normal rate, rhythm, and grammar. The most common cause of Wernicke’s aphasia is an ischemic stroke affecting the posterior temporal lobe of the dominant hemisphere.

Detailed explanation-4: -Patients with Wernicke’s aphasia demonstrate fluent speech, which is characterized by typical speech rate, intact syntactic abilities and effortless speech output. Writing often reflects speech in that it tends to lack content or meaning.