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Comprehensive Review #2-Part 1 Flashcards

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Question # 1

What is the name of the direction of a brain slice that divides the brain into right and left hemispheres?

a. Sagittal
b. Horizontal
c. Parietal
d. Corona

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A. Sagittal

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Question # 2

Which of the following test batteries is most likely to be administered by a speech and language pathologist?

a. Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals – Fifth Edition (CELF-5)
b. WJ IV Tests of Oral Language
c. NEPSY-II Language tests
d. Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement – Third Edition (KTEA-3)

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A. CELF-5

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Question # 3

When memorizing a list of words, the words that are last to be presented are more easily recalled. This is called the:

a. primacy effect
b. recency effect
c. equipotential effect
d. transduction effect

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b. recency effect

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Question # 4

Which of the following is not a good reason to conduct a thorough background history?

a. It is important to know about and report in writing all details of a family’s internal conflicts.
b. Potential explanations or insights into causal factors of the child’s presenting problems may be found in the child’s background information.
c. It provides important information for planning the assessment battery.
d. Information from the teacher is critical to understanding how strengths and weaknesses present in educational settings.

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a. It is important to know about and report in writing all details of a family’s internal conflicts.

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Question # 5

Psychogenic Non‐Epilepsy Seizures (PNES)

a. Represent a seizure emergency
b. Impair awareness
c. Are typically shorter than other seizure types
d. None of the above

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d. None of the above

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Question # 6

According to Luria, which zone of functioning within the brain would be responsible for analyzing direction, strength, localization of touch, and movement of muscles and joints?

a. Primary zone within the parietal lobes
b. Secondary zone within the occipital lobes
c. Tertiary zone within the frontal lobes
d. Secondary zone within the parietal lobes

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D. Secondary zone within the parietal lobes

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Question # 7

Which of the conditions below is not a condition for the Inhibition test?

a. Naming of colors
b. Naming of shapes
c. Inhibition
d. Switching

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a. Naming of colors

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Question # 8

Which test on the WJ IV OL was designed to measure cognitive fluency?

a. Sound Blending
b. Nonword Repetition
c. Sound Awareness
d. Rapid Picture Naming

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d. Rapid Picture Naming

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Question # 9

The primary auditory cortex is located in the:

a. Inferior part of the parietal lobe
b. Superior part of the parietal lobe
c. Superior part of the temporal lobe
d. Inferior part of the temporal lobe

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c. Superior part of the temporal lobe

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Question # 10

Slow completion times on timed tasks could be indicative of:

a. lesions in the subcortical regions
b. depression
c. obsessive thinking
d. any or all of these

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d. any or all of these

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Question # 11

The WISC-V Nonverbal Index

a. is designed for use in every evaluation.
b. minimizes expressive demands for children with special circumstances.
c. cannot be used with English language learners.
d. is not useful for evaluations of children with autism spectrum disorder with language impairment.

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b. minimizes expressive demands for children with special circumstances.

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Question # 12

Which of the following is a term for a deficit in reading ability?

a. spelling dyspraxia
b. aphasia
c. dysgraphia
d. dyslexia

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d. dyslexia

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Question # 13

Damage to the orbitofrontal or ventromedial prefrontal cortex is associated with an increased display of what type of behavior in both children and adults?

a. depression
b. reactive aggression
c. social phobia
d. anxiety

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b. reactive aggression

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Question # 14

The region of the brain primarily responsible for processing the 44 phonemes which comprise the English language is:

a. Frontal Lobes
b. Amygdala
c. Superior Temporal Gyrus
d. Basal Ganglia

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c. Superior Temporal Gyrus

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Question # 15

An impaired recognition of the meaning of whole pictures or objects, but intact ability to describe the parts of the pictures/objects, describes what condition?

a. simultanagnosia
b. astereopsis
c. prosopagnosia
d. visual agnosia

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a. simultanagnosia

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Question # 16

Whether a composite or index (e.g., WISC-V VCI) that measures language or acculturative knowledge acquisition (e.g., Gc) should be interpreted as a strength or weakness can only be established by?

a. adding a certain number of points to the score
b. use of typical classification schemes
c. simply examining the magnitude of the score in relation to the normal curve
d. comparing the magnitude of the score to the expected range in the C-LIM

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d. comparing the magnitude of the score to the expected range in the C-LIM

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Question # 17

The ability to learn, store, and consolidate new information over periods of time measured in minutes, hours, days, and years is describing

a. Fluid Reasoning (Gf)
b. Working Memory Capacity (Gwm)
c. Learning Efficiency (Gl)
d. Comprehension Knowledge (Gc)

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c. Learning Efficiency (Gl)

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Question # 18

Baddeley and Hitch’s (1974) Working Memory Model theorizes a modality nonspecific cognitive system that coordinates processes in working memory. What are the two mechanisms that the central executive of working memory regulates?

a. short-term and long-term memory
b. phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad
c. analysis and synthesis
d. sensory memory and working memory

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b. phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad

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Question # 19

Reducing the amount of material that a student is required to learn is an example of. . .

a. Accommodation
b. Compensation
c. Remediation
d. Modification

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d. Modification

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Question # 20

You walk into the teacher’s lounge at a school where you provide services. You recognize a teacher of a child you are evaluating. In front of several of her colleagues, she asks you how the testing is coming along and if you can share any preliminary findings. What would be the best response?

a. Tell her that you will be happy to sit down with her in private to discuss the results.
b. Tell her how the testing has gone and share some preliminary results.
c. Tell her you do not discuss your business outside of work.
d. Change subject and ignore the request for information.

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d. Change subject and ignore the request for information.

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Question # 21

The pathway for touch, proprioception, and movement is called the:

a. Dorsal column-medial lemniscal system
b. Anterolateral system
c. Ventral stream
d. Dorsal stream

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a. Dorsal column-medial lemniscal system

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Question # 22

What brain structure serves as a relay station for visual information?

a. retina
b. optic radiations
c. thalamus
d. optic chiasm

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c. thalamus

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Question # 23

What term means an impaired ability to recognize visual information?

a. simultanagnosia
b. astereopsis
c. prosopagnosia
d. visual agnosia

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d. visual agnosia

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Question # 24

You are asked to administer a new neuropsychological test for an actual case study in your district but you have never administered that particular test before. What would be the best course of action?

a. Go ahead and administer the test and talk about the limitations of the results in your report due to your inexperience with the test.
b. Practice giving the test to several children but do not use the results clinically and seek out supervision of your administration and interpretation.
c. Go ahead and administer the test but have someone else with more experience score it.
d. Always use the same battery of tests to avoid such dilemmas.

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b. Practice giving the test to several children but do not use the results clinically and seek out supervision of your administration and interpretation.

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Question # 25

In what decade did the interest in the school neuropsychology specialization first start?

a. 1970s
b. 1980s
c. 1990s
d. 2000s

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b. 1980s

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Question # 26

What D-KEFS test is the nonverbal analog to the Verbal Fluency test?

a. Color Word Interference
b. Trail Making Test
c. Word Context
d. Design Fluency

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d. Design Fluency

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Question # 27

Retrograde amnesia is:

a. the inability to learn new information following a brain injury.
b. the inability to learn new information and recall information prior to a brain injury.
c. the inability to recall information prior to a brain injury.
d. none of the above.

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c. the inability to recall information prior to a brain injury.

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Question # 28

Retrieving words from the left hemisphere often requires __________ thinking skills, while finding relationships between two relatively disparate words requires __________ thinking skills.

a. convergent/divergent
b. divergent/convergent
c. acute/global
d. analytical/abstract

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A. convergent/divergent

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Question # 29

This part of the brain is thought to be the reward center which is activated in anticipation of reward. What is this brain structure?

a. hippocampus
b. cerebellum
c. nucleus accumbens
d. anterior cingulate

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c. nucleus accumbens

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Question # 30

Active studying means:

a. engaging in movement while studying
b. engaging with others while studying
c. engaging with the material in various ways
d. reviewing class notes

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c. engaging with the material in various ways

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Question # 31

Omar is continually distracted by the sound of cars passing by the classroom’s window that faces a street. What kind of attentional processing is most probably impaired in Omar?

a. Selective/focused attention
b. Shifting attention
c. Sustained attention
d. Divided attention

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a. Selective/focused attention

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Question # 32

The critical period for learning the phonemes of language is _____ months.

a. 6
b. 9
c. 12
d. 24

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b. 9

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Question # 33

In the Miller and Maricle (2019) model of processing speed, the NEPSY-II Visuomotor Precision test would be classified under which third order classification?

a. Figural fluency
b. Perceptual fluency
c. Psychomotor fluency
d. Retrieval fluency

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c. Psychomotor fluency

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Question # 34

Johnny has difficulty understanding another person’s intentions, or recognizing when someone is lying, joking, or deceiving, or understanding figurative language. What subtest on the NEPSY-II would he most likely perform poorly on?

a. Memory for Faces
b. Theory of Mind
c. Narrative Memory
d. Block Construction

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b. Theory of Mind

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Question # 35

mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) usually results in:

a. Enduring attention deficits
b. Functional disturbances in cognition
c. Structural changes in the brain
d. Learning differences

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b. Functional disturbances in cognition

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Question # 36

What term is used to describe impaired recognition of the meaning of whole pictures or objects, but intact ability to describe the parts of the pictures/objects?

a. optic ataxia
b. simultanagnosia
c. ocular apraxia
d. associative visual agnosia

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b. simultanagnosia

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Question # 37

Epilepsy may impact sensory processing:

a. Only in the areas of the brain impacted by seizures
b. Only in areas of the brain contralateral to those areas impacted by seizures
c. Across multiple areas of brain as the thalamus works to communicate information between sensory processing areas and those signals may be distorted
d. Epilepsy would not be expected to impact sensory processing

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c. Across multiple areas of brain as the thalamus works to communicate information between sensory processing areas and those signals may be distorted

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Question # 38

Which of the following is probably NOT a potential cause of math anxiety for children in an educational setting?

a. Timed math tests
b. Unexpected pop quiz
c. Working with a math tutor
d. Being called upon to solve a problem in front of others on the board

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c. Working with a math tutor

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Question # 39

Which of the following cognitive processes probably has little to do with a math learning disability?

a. Phonological processing
b. Visual-spatial processing
c. Executive functioning
d. Working Memory

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a. Phonological processing

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Question # 40

Margolis suggests the following incidence of NLD

a. 3%
b. 6%
c. 12%
d. 15%

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a. 3%

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Question # 42

If a child loses consciousness for more than 6 hours, he/she will be classified as having what type of TBI?

a. no TBI
b. mild TBI
c. moderate TBI
d. severe TBI

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d. severe TBI

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Question # 43

A child with a receptive language deficit is likely to have the most difficulty with which one of the following tests?

a. Comprehension of Instructions test from the NEPSY-II
b. Speeded Naming test from the NEPSY-II
c. Imitating Hand Positions from the NEPSY-II
d. Arrows from the NEPSY-II

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a. Comprehension of Instructions test from the NEPSY-II

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Question # 44

The development of executive functions is associated with:

a. Myelination of the frontal lobe
b. Reading efficiency
c. Motor coordination
d. All the above

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a. Myelination of the frontal lobe

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Question # 45

A person with damage to the temporal lobe may experience

a. Difficulty recognizing visual forms
b. Difficulty recognizing auditory sounds
c. Difficulty sensing touch
d. All of the above

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b. Difficulty recognizing auditory sounds

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Question # 46

All are examples of bias-free language except:

a. individuals
b. they
c. another gender
d. opposite gender

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d. opposite gender

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Question # 47

The main purpose of the Culture-Language Interpretive Matrix is to?

a. provide a diagnosis
b. evaluate the validity of obtained test results
c. calculate new scores for culturally and linguistically diverse learners
d. pinpoint specific areas of psychological and neuropsychological dysfunction

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b. evaluate the validity of obtained test results

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Question # 49

The inability of a child with autism to take the perspective of someone else is explained best by which theory of autism?

a. The limbic system hypothesis
b. The weak central coherence hypothesis
c. The executive function hypothesis
d. The theory of mind hypothesis

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d. The theory of mind hypothesis

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Question # 50

Which physical health concern(s) can masquerade as ADHD?

a. Obstructive Sleep Apnea
b. Traumatic Brain Injury
c. Hypothyroidism
d. All of the Above

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d. All of the Above

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