Neuropsychology Assessment Study Guide Flashcards
Baddley and colleagues proposed a three-part working memory system that contained a central executive system that regulated which two subordinate systems?
Visuospatial sketchpad and phonological loop
What is the type of memory that is exalted to the recollection of personal memories?
Autobiographical memory
What term is used to describe memory retrieval with the aide for external cues?
Free recall
What type of memory has limited capacity and pervade temporary storage to manipulate information for complex cognitive tasks such as learning and reasoning?
Working Memory
All of the following terms are associated with executive function except for:
A. tacile perception
B. self monitoring
C. planning
D. abstract reasoning
A. tactile perception
Which of the following frontal-subcortical circuits is NOT involved with the regulation of behavior?
a. dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
b. oculomotor circuit
c. orbitofrontal circuit
d. anterior circuit.
b. oculomotor circuit
Which of the frontal subcortical circuits helps regulate socially appropriate behaviors under typical circumstances?
orbitofrontal circuit
Damage to this frontal subcortical circuit can cause decrease retrieval fluency, poor organizational skills, poor planning, impair set shifting ,etc. What frontal subcortical circuit seems to be impaired?
dorsolateral circuit
Phineas Gage was a railroad worker who sustained a head injury to his orbitofrontal region of the brain.
true
A tendency to repeat the same response over and over again, even when shown to be inappropriate, is referred to as
perseveration
Which of the following tests measures a child’s executive function using a rating scale complete by either the parent or teacher?
BRIEF
All of the following are examples of constructs that could be classified as speed and efficiency of cognitive processing, except one. which one?
a. processing speed
b. cognitive fluency
c. comprehension-knowledge
d. cognitive fluency
c. comprehension knowledge
which of the two major rest of cognitive processing inside a processing speed component?
WISC and WJ COG
On the WJ COG cognitive efficiency is a compilation of which two CHC factor scores?
processing speed and short term memory
A school neuropsychogical evaluation should emphasize a global measure of intelligence (g).
False
What subtype of reading disorder isa characterize by over reliance on memorizing a whole word as seen in space rather than phonetic decoding?
phonological dyslexia
What subtype of a reading disorder is characterized by over reliance on visual and semantic cues and frequent semantic errors during reading?
Semantic dyslexia
What subtype a written language disorder is characterized by an inability or difficulty with sequencing letters and accurately in words?
Mixed dysgraphia
What subtype of a mathematics disorder results and difficulties with poor alignment of numbered columns
Visual spatial dyscalculia
Which is subtype of a written language disorder does not involve a cognitive component but results in poor penmanship?
Motor dysgraphia
This formal measure of social emotional functioning examines the individual’s ability to recognize affect from visual stimuli
NEPSY-II Affect Recognition
This formal measure of social emotional functioning assesses the ability to understand mental functions such as belief intention deception emotion imagination and pretending as well as the ability to understand that others have their own thoughts ideas and feelings that may be different from one’s own and the ability to understand how emotion relates the social context and To recognize the appropriate affect given various social context
NEPSY-II Theory of Mind
The following rating scale offers a quick easy and inexpensive way to routinely screen for autism spectrum disorders
Social communication questionarre
All of the following subtest on the CASL-II assess for an individual supralinguistic and pragmatic language skills except for _________________
grammatical morphemes
