Chapter 19

Question 1

Partial paralysis involving one side of the body

Answer 1

hemiplegia

Question 2

Weakness of one side of the body

Answer 2

hemiparesis

Question 3

Also called werniche’s aphasia. A language impairment caused by fluent, meaningless speech and little language comprehension, related to damage in werniche’s area

Answer 3

Fluent aphasia

Question 4

Inability to name people or objects

Answer 4

anomia

Question 5

A brain region in which strokes can lead to word blindness

Answer 5

angular gyrus

Question 6

Near loss of the ability to understand or produce language

Answer 6

global aphasia

Question 7

impairment in the repetition of words and sentences

Answer 7

conduction aphasia

Question 8

A track believed to connect werniche and broca’s area

Answer 8

arcuate fasiculus

Question 9

The context in which a speech sound is uttered

Answer 9

pragmatics

Question 10

Excessive cortical folding related to dyslexia

Answer 10

micropolygira

Question 11

Removing a hemisphere of the brain

Answer 11

hemispheresectomy

Question 12

Dementia that develops in boxers from repeated hits to the head

Answer 12

Chronic traumatic encephalophathy

Question 13

Brain region related to left hemisphere’s language specialization

Answer 13

planum temporale

Question 14

test where stimulus is shown briefly to only one eye

Answer 14

tachiostopic test

Question 15

Different sounds are presented to both ears

Answer 15

dichotic presentation

Question 16

right brain abilities

Answer 16

complex spatial cognition, geometry, faces, PROSODY

Question 17

left brain abilities

Answer 17

language processing

Question 18

Inducing of a stroke to test brain hemisphere specialization

Answer 18

wada test

Question 19

inability to recognize objects by touching them

Answer 19

asterognosis