Chapter 7

Question 1

Aphasia

Answer 1

A language ability impairment usually due to damage

Question 2

Spatial neglect

Answer 2

• disorder where a person affected systematically ignores stimuli on one side of their body
• occurs after brain damage
• usually in posterior region of right parietal lobe
• this ignores stimuli on left side
• eyes function normally

Question 3

Wernikes aphasia

Answer 3

• damage to wernicke’s area
• left temporal lobe near parietal lobe boundary
• difficulty understanding written and spoken language
• difficulty producing written and spoken language that makes sense to others
• fluent speech

Question 4

Broca’s aphasia

Answer 4

• difficulty in expressing messages in words or sentences
• ability to comprehend speech largely unaffected
• little speech is produced
• slowly generated with much effort and poorly articulated

Question 5

cognition

Answer 5

relates to the mental activities such as thinking, problem solving, language, reasoning and so forth. entails our knowledge, beliefs, thoughts and ideas that we have about ourselves and our environment

Question 6

cognitive processes

Answer 6

the mental processes involved in acquiring, retaining and using knowledge