Missed Questions Flashcards
What term is used to describe difficulty with pronunciation due to weaknesses or poor coordination of the muscles of lips, tongue, jaw, etc?
A. Dysarthia
B. Dysnomia
C. Aphasia
D. Circumlocution
A. Dysarthia
After someone dissed Arthi she had difficulty with pronunciation (weakness of the lip, tongue, jaw muscles, etc.)
Speech signals are transmitted through the auditory nerve and discriminated in what part of the temporal lobe? A. Supramarginal gyrus B. Heschel's gyrus C. Angular gyrus D. Insular gyrus
B. Heschel’s gyrus
The supramarginal gyrus is part of the parietal lobe. It plays a role in phonological processing (i.e. of spoken and written language) and emotional response.
Although this WJ-IV Cog test loads on Visual Processing, it is also an indirect measure of visual short-term memory. What test is it? A. Visualization B. Picture Recognition C. Spatial Relations D. Matrix Reasoning
B. Picture Recognition
Which of the following types of attention, as defined by Mirsky, pertains to vigilance? A. Sustained B. Focus-execute C. Stable D. Encoding
A. Sustained
Which of the following conditions would least benefit from the results of a neuropsychological evaluation?
A. SLD
B. ID
C. TBI
D. Child who was born with a very low birth weight
B. ID
In Miller and Maricle’s School Neuropsychological Conceptual Model, what are the major subcomponents of memory and learning?
A. Sensory Memory, STM, and LTM
B. Recognition memory, recall memory, and learning
C. Rate of new learning, Immediate memory, LT delayed memory, verbal-visual associative learning and recall
D. Echoic memory, iconic memory, declarative memory, procedural memory
C. Rate of new learning, Immediate memory, LT delayed memory, verbal-visual associative learning and recall
A term used to describe a student’s ability to determine “more” or “less” without counting each individual component in a set is:
a. approximate number system
b. estimation identification
c. magnitude math
d. touch math
a. approximate number system
What two neurotransmitters mediate the rewarding effects of illicit use of drugs (drug addiction)?
a. Dopamine and Opioid Peptides
b. Dopamine and NE
c. Dopamine and Serotonin
d. Dopamine and GABA
a. Dopamine and Opioid Peptides
Most mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) symptoms typically remit within:
a. The first few minutes after injury
c. About a month of the injury
d. About 3-months
c. About a month of the injury
Which cognitive ability’s conceptualization includes forming and recognizing concepts; identifying and perceiving relationships; drawing inferences; and solving problems?
a. Math Knowledge (Gq)
b. Learning Efficiency (Gl)
c. Comprehension Knowledge (Gc)
d. Fluid Reasoning (Gf)
d. Fluid Reasoning (Gf)
Psychogenic NonEpilepsy Seizures (PNES)
a. Represent a seizure emergency
b. Impair awareness
c. Are typically shorter than other seizure types
d. None of the above
d. None of the above
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
d. Secondary zone within the parietal lobes
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.
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
a. convergent/divergent
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
b. Functional disturbances in cognition