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
Margolis suggests the following incidence of NLD
a. 3%
b. 6%
c. 12%
d. 15%
3%
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 X
d. severe TBI
Severe
All of the following tests are based in part on Lurian theory except one. Which one?
a. Cognitive Assessment System - Second Edition
b. NEPSY-II
c. KABC-II
d. Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities
d. Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities
What term is used to refer to poor ability to initiate nonverbal as well as verbal movements of the speech musculature?
a. anomia
b. dysarthria
c. oromotor apraxia
d. circumlocution
c. oromotor apraxia
Can’t initiate speech muscles.
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
c. engaging with the material in various ways
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
b. evaluate the validity of obtained test results
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
d. The theory of mind hypothesis
NVLD is associated with difficulty with pragmatic language deficits and
a. difficulty with abstract language
b. difficulty with reading comprehension
c. difficulty with math computation
d. all of these
d. all of these
The letters on the Spatial Span cubes should face:
a. the examiner
b. the door
c. the wall that is perpendicular to the examinee and examiner
d. the examinee
a. the examiner
________________ cannot be interpreted without taking ____________ into account.
a. Naming Speed Literacy; Naming Speed Quantity performance
b. The Nonmotor Full Scale Score; Naming Speed Literacy performance
c. The Naming Speed subtests; both the standard scores and the base rates of errors
d. Naming Speed Color-Object; Cancellation performance
c. The Naming Speed subtests; both the standard scores and
the base rates of errors
Which of the following dyscalculia subtypes involves difficulty with aligning numbers in columns and visualizing magnitudes and amounts?
a. Verbal Dyscalculia
b. Hemispheric Dyscalculia
c. Semantic Dyscalculia
d. Procedural Dyscalculia
c. Semantic Dyscalculia
Children with this subtype of reading disorder rely on auditory
cues because they have difficulty recognizing the symbols of
language.
a. dysphonetic dyslexia
b. deep dyslexia
c. surface dyslexia
d. mixed dyslexia
c. surface dyslexia
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
c. Superior part of the temporal lobe
Primary Auditory Cortex: ALEX (AUDITORY CORTEX) was a SUPER (superior) star after TEMPORARILY (temporal) losing his hearing
The __________ in the midbrain is responsible for relaying auditory information.
A. Superior colliculus
B. Inferior colliculus
C. Reticular formation
D. Substantia nigra
B. Inferior colliculus
The visuospatial sketchpad can be compromised by damage to what part of the brain?
a. bilateral frontal regions
b. bilateral temporal regions
c. bilateral occipital regions
d. bilateral parietal-occipital regions
d. bilateral parietal-occipital regions
Unilateral right temporal lobe damage can effect everything below except for one, which one?
a. tactile and visual maze learning
b. spatial positioning
c. facial recognition
d. recall of stories
d. recall of stories
