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ARW1 - Midterm Exam Results for PRISILA CHAVEZ Correct answers are hidden.Submitted Oct 13 at 10:14amSection I: Reading ComprehensionTo read for main ideas, details, and inferenceQuestion 1 20 / 20 ptsRead the following text and use the information to answer thequestions below.Savant Syndrome: Earl...

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 Correct answers are hidden. Submitted Oct 13 at 10:14am

Section I: Reading Comprehension To read for main ideas, details, and inference

20 / 20 pts

Question 1

Read the following text and use the information to answer the questions below. Savant Syndrome: Early Studies The word “savant” is derived from the French word “savoir” which means “to know” and it is not without reason that these rare and extraordinary talented people sometimes go under the name “an island of genius”. Among the first to describe the savant syndrome was Benjamin Rush who in 1789 presented the case of Thomas Fuller, nicknamed as “a lightning calculator”. Rush describes how Thomas Fuller performed extraordinary calculations. When Fuller was asked how many seconds a man had lived if he was 70 years, 17 days and 12 hours old, it took him 90 seconds to give the correct answer of 2,210,500,800 seconds. Moreover, Fuller had even corrected for the 17 leap years. The first scientific description of a savant case was published in the German psychology journal Gnothi Sauton in 1783. In the journal, the case of Jedediah Buxton, who was a lightning calculator with an extraordinary memory, was presented. Still, it took several more decades before the phenomenon of savant syndrome was more clearly described and investigated. In 1887, Dr. J. Langdon Down investigated the syndrome which at that time referred to explaining “idiot savants”. Idiot savant was an accepted medical description of someone suffering from savant characteristics. The term was used to describe a https://icpna.instructure.com/courses/28780/quizzes/120017/history?version=1

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person who had an IQ below 25 but still seemed to be a “knowledgeable person”. Later, Dr. Down described several savant cases, and he found that the syndrome was characterized by “verbal adhesion”, by which he meant that some savants seemed to have memory without reckoning. Dr. Down also keenly pointed out the fact that the savant’s talent is linked to ‘extraordinary memory’; as an example of this, one of his patients had memorized very long pieces from the book Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. Dr. Down also found the link between the savant syndrome and autistic characteristics, although he did not recognize this connection as such. After all, autism was not a known diagnosis at that time. The people Dr. Down met who were described as savant idiots, were at that time categorized under the name ‘Developmental disorder’. The characteristics among most of these people were typical autistic features according to today’s norms, so even if Dr. Down did not know it back then, he had found a relation between savant syndrome and autistic condition. Dr. Down himself described these patients: “Their language is one of gesture only; living in a world of their own, they are regardless of the ordinary circumstances around them and yield only to the counter-fascination of music.” Today, there is substantial knowledge about savant syndrome, and over the last century about a hundred cases have been described in the scientific literature.

Questions: 1. What is another good title for this article? “First researches on Savants” 2. Who was one of the first scientists to describe the savant syndrome?

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3. What is the best heading for paragraphs 3 and 4?

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4. The first published scientific description of a savant case ...

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5. What is the meaning of the word “substantial” in Paragraph 5?

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Answer 1: “First researches on Savants”

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Answer 2: Benjamin Rush

Answer 3: Dr. J. Langdon Down’s Studies

Answer 4: was presented back in 1783.

Answer 5: considerable

Section II: Grammar To identify different functions

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Question 2

Identify if the following grammar structures express Speculation, Likelihood, Advice, or Conclusion. 1. It is very weird that the teacher is absent.

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He must be sick. 2. I’m not sure why the accident happened. The driver might have been drunk. 3. You can’t have seen Mary at the party.

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She was with me yesterday. 4. The teacher is never absent. He should be here any minute.

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Likelihood

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Answer 1: Conclusion

Answer 2: Speculation

Answer 3: Conclusion

Answer 4: Likelihood

Section III: Organizing Information To identify parts of a paragraph

Question 3

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Look at the sample paragraph and identify its parts.

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An autistic savant

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...different areas

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Some autistic savants have special skills in

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Math. Other savants have excellent memory.

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They can easily remember a whole phone

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book or recite passages of different books. The only problem is that autistic savants sometimes may have problems with social

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skills. As you can see autistic savants have

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amazing skills.

Answer 1: Topic

Answer 2: Controlling idea

Answer 3: First supporting idea

Answer 4: Second supporting idea

Answer 5: Example

Answer 6: Idea that does not belong in the text

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Section IV: Written Expression To write an organized summary paragraph

Question 4

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Now, write a summary paragraph about the article in Section I.

Your Answer: In “Savant Syndrome: Early Studies” the author describe the first researches on the savants. First, the author points out Benjamin Rush who was the first scientist to introduce Thomas Fuller, the first person considerate savant because he can calculate quickly. Second, the author writes about the first scientific description where mentioned Jedediah Buxton who was a lightning calculator with an extraordinary memory. In the next part, the author explains about Dr. J. Langdon Down that considered some people "savants idiots" because their IQ was very short but these people had a excellent memory. Also, the writter mentions that Dr, Down found a link between the autistic and the savants. In conlusion, savants have existed for many years and it is always considered a controversial issue.

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