Aphasia Terms

Question 1

Anomia

Answer 1

Word finding

Question 2

Free-recall tasks

Answer 2

pull from memory, higher sequence processing

Question 3

Generative Naming

Answer 3

word fluency or verbal fluency

Question 4

Perservation

Answer 4

Inappropriate repetition or continuation of earlier responses after task requirements have changed.

Question 5

Stuck-in-Set Perseveration

Answer 5

Stuck responding in that way

Question 6

Continuous Perseveration

Answer 6

Someone has the same answer or category of answer over and over again, you don’t intervene

Question 7

Recurrent Perseveration

Answer 7

Continue the same response even with new stimuli: Interrupt perseveration and redirect them

Question 8

Localizationist-connectionist Model

Answer 8

Specific areas of the brain damaged

Question 9

Advances in Cognitive Neuroscience

Answer 9

Huge brain networks for language

Question 10

Fluent

Answer 10

production of nine words or more

Question 11

Non-fluent

Answer 11

production of zero – five words

Question 12

“Borderline fluent”

Answer 12

production of six – eight words

Question 13

Obtain the average of the three longest meaningful utterances produced under three conditions of narrative discourse:

Answer 13

Response to an open-ended question
Description of a pictured scene
Response to a question of historical or emotional significance

Question 14

Auditory Comprehension Tasks

Answer 14

Follow verbal single and multistep commands
Answer yes/no questions
Paragraph Length Material

Question 15

Repetition Tasks

Answer 15

Single Words
Phrases
Sentences

Question 16

Nonfluent Aphasias

Answer 16

Broca’s Aphasia
Transcortical Motor Aphasia
Mixed Aphasia
Global Aphasia

Question 17

Fluent Aphasias

Answer 17

Wernicke’s Aphasia
Transcortical Sensory Aphasia
Conduction Aphasia
Anomic Aphasia

Question 18

Acalculia

Answer 18

inability to perform arithmetic operations

Question 19

Agnosia

Answer 19

inability to comprehend the meaning of a perceived stimulus

Question 20

Agrammatism

Answer 20

a unique speech pattern with simplified formation of sentences (in which many or all function words- articles, prepositions, personal pronouns, verbal inflections are omitted

Question 21

Anomia

Answer 21

difficulty retrieving specific words

Question 22

Ataxia

Answer 22

discoordination of movement often associated with cerebellar disease

Question 23

Circumlocution

Answer 23

an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech. In its most basic form, circumlocution is using many words (such as “a tool used for cutting things such as paper and hair”) to describe something for which a concise (and commonly known) expression exists (“scissors”).

Question 24

Conduit d’ approche

Answer 24

repeated attempts come closer to target tendency, most evident in conduction aphasics, to make repeated attempts at a word (e.g., for pretzel, “trep . . . tretzle . . . trethle . . . tredfles . . . ki”) that do not necessarily result in closer approximations to the target. These attempts indicate that the patient knows what the word should sound like and is dissatisfied with his or her efforts.

Question 25

Conduit d’ecart “conduit d’ecart”

Answer 25

repeated attempts more further from target.

Question 26

Echolalia

Answer 26

involuntary repetition of someone else’s words

Question 27

Jargon

Answer 27

Nonsensical, incoherent, or meaningless talk

Question 28

Micrographia

Answer 28

small (often illegible) handwriting associated with basal ganglia dysfunction (Parkinsons)

Question 29

Neologism

Answer 29

a new or made up word

Question 30

Palilalia

Answer 30

involuntary repetition of one’s own words or phrases uttered with increasing rapidity and decreasing clarity and volume.

Question 31

“Paragrammatism”

Answer 31

refers to structured production in which grammatical morphology is not entirely correct, often because one morpheme is substituted for another.

Question 32

Paraphasia

Answer 32

refers to errors in word production; these include “verbal paraphasias,” which are substitutions of other words (e.g., “doctor” for nurse; “horse” for house), and “literal (or phonemic) paraphasias,” which are sound substitutions (e.g., “doctin” for doctor; “ramonica” for harmonica). (Note that the latter qualify as neologisms, because they are not words in English.)

Question 33

Perseveration

Answer 33

the repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder

Question 34

Prosodoic Variation

Answer 34

the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech variation