Exam 1

Question 1

Health Disparities are caused by…?

Answer 1

● Long-standing national history of poverty
● Discrimination in access to health care
● Poor or nonexistent medical care early in life among ethnic subgroups
● Poor living and working conditions

Question 2

What are Health Disparities?

Answer 2

The difference in the incidence, prevalence, morbidity, mortality, and burden of diseases and other adverse health conditions that exist among specific population groups

Question 3

The prevalence of diabetes in African Americans is nearly ___ percent higher than in non-Hispanic Whites

Answer 3

70%

Question 4

What can increase the risk of stroke and dementia?

Answer 4

Diabetes and Hypertension, caused by obesity

Question 5

Cavernous Malformations

Answer 5

When pressure in your blood vessels is too high causing dizziness, difficulty breathing, and chest pain

Question 6

Culture consists of…?

Answer 6

Language, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious or social groups

Question 7

Cultural Awareness

Answer 7

The moment when we realize that something much deeper than the
surface issue is affecting the relationship between provider and patient

Question 8

Cultural Knowledge

Answer 8

What you bring with you to an encounter, while awareness emerges during the encounter

Question 9

Cultural Dissonance

Answer 9

Frustration and lack of acceptance between the health services provider and the culturally and ethnically diverse patient due to the provider not understanding the patient’s system of values, norms, and beliefs

Question 10

Aphasia

Answer 10

Defined from neurological, cognitive, and functional perspectives.

Question 11

Impaired modalities in Aphasia

Answer 11

Expressive Language, Receptive Language, Reading, and Writing

Question 12

Paraphasia

Answer 12

Errors in phonemes, words, or phrases produced unintentionally due to higher level language deficits. Examples include: Phonemic/literal paraphasia, Neologism/neologistic paraphasia, semantic
paraphasia, Unrelated verbal paraphasia.

Question 13

Non-Fluent Aphasias

Answer 13

Broca’s, Global, Transcortical Motor, Mixed
Transcortical

Question 14

Fluent Aphasias

Answer 14

Wernicke’s, Conduction, Transcortical Sensory

Question 15

Anomic Aphasia

Answer 15

Most mild form of aphasia, typically associated with Broca’s but Anomic aphasia only impairs the ability to name objects, people, places, things.

Question 16

What is the difference between Aphasia in people who use sign language versus those who use oral language?

Answer 16

Trick question! There is no difference; it is
extremely similar to oral speakers.

Question 17

Arcuate Fasciculus

Answer 17

The pathway between Broca’s and Wernicke’s
that allows for repetition of words.

Question 18

What is the difference between Alexia and Agraphia?

Answer 18

Alexia has to do with reading difficulties ; it is an acquired impairment of reading. Agraphia has to do
with writing, and is the inability to form letters/words.

Question 19

Related Behaviors associated with Aphasia?

Answer 19

Self Repair (Ex: restating or revising their words because they know they are stuck) ; Speech Disfluencies (Ex: Prolonged vowels; “Uh”) ; Preserved Language (Ex: Their name or day of the week) ; Automatic Language (Ex: Unable to say “hey” when asked to, BUT may say “hey” when a person enters the room).

Question 20

Pure Aphasias

Answer 20

Alexia without agraphia, and Agraphia without alexia

Question 21

What is the difference between word production anomia and word selection anomia?

Answer 21

Word production anomia is characterized by inability to produce name of an object, but cuing can help them find the appropriate name. Word selection
aphasia is inability to name an object but can explain its use.

Question 22

Conduction Aphasias

Question 23

Neurological Perspective

Answer 23

An acquired language impairment resulting from a local brain lesion in the absence of other cognitive,
motor, or sensory impairments.

Question 24

Cognitive Perspective

Answer 24

The selective breakdown of language processing itself, of underlying cognitive skills, or of the necessary
cognitive resources, resulting from a focal lesion.

Question 25

Functional Perspective

Answer 25

A communication impairment masking inherent competence.

Question 26

Agrammatism

Answer 26

Lack of grammar by omitting function words.

Question 27

Name some associated disorders of a stroke…

Answer 27

Coma, Vision problems, Verbal Memory issues, Depression, Seizure, Anxiety, Emotional Outbursts.

Question 28

Severity of aphasia is associated with…?

Answer 28

Cortical and Subcortical lesions.

Question 29

Telegraphic Speech

Answer 29

Small, functional words are absent in one’s speech.

Question 30

What becomes impaired when there is a lesion in the arcuate fasciculus?

Answer 30

Repetition.

Question 31

Neologism

Question 32

Semantic Paraphasia

Question 33

Possible associated speech problems for Broca’s Aphasia?

Answer 33

Apraxia of speech and dysarthria

Question 34

Broca’s Aphasia

Question 35

Wernicke’s Aphasia

Question 36

Global Aphasia

Question 37

Transcortical Motor Aphasia

Question 38

Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia