Praxis Study Guide (Part 4) Flashcards
What is the ability to hold a given amount of information for immediate processing?
Working Memory
What is the retention of information for longer than 30 seconds lasting hours?
Short-Term Memory
What is the retention of information for months and/or years?
Long-Term Memory
What is the recall of facts?
Declarative Memory
What is the recall of specific and recent events?
Episodic Memory
What is the recall of sequences necessary for given tasks?
Procedural Memory
What is the ability to focus on and respond to stimuli and information?
Focused Attention
What is the ability to sustain or hold and manipulate information?
Sustained Attention
What is the ability to attend and select information within a larger set?
Selective Attention
What is the ability to switch or alternate attention between tasks?
Alternating Attention
What is the ability to attend and divide focus on multiple things at once?
Divided Attention
What is a persistent or progressive deterioration of cognitive functions? Memory deficits are the most common characteristic. It may also impact language, emotions, personality, etc.
Dementia
What causes visuospatial deficits and visual (left) neglect? It leads to anosognosia (denial and poor awareness of impairment). Prosodic, inferencing, and discourse deficits will occur as well as sustained and selective attention deficits.
Right Hemisphere Damage (RHD)
What is a deficit of motor planning with normal speech musculature? Articulation is characterized by groping, inconsistency, and errors of sound/syllable sequencing.
Apraxia
What is characterized by slowness, weakness, and incoordination of speech musculature?
Dysarthria
What is a problem with word finding? It is a symptom of aphasia.
Anomia
What is an error in which an incorrect word, part of a word, or sound is substituted for an intended target word? It can be phonemic, semantic, or neologistic.
Paraphasia
What is the inappropriate repetition of a word or idea previously produced? It may be helpful to switch attention to another activity or task. For example, a patient said the word “car” earlier in the session, and now it is the only fluent word that he/she can verbalize.
Perseveration
What are grammar deficits and inadequate sentence production? Individuals typically use content words and omit function words.
Agrammatism
What is an acquired reading impairment following brain damage? It is also called word or visual blindness.
Alexia
What is an acquired writing impairment following brain damage? It involves motor dysfunction or spelling impairment deficits.
Agraphia
What is an error type in which a new word is created? The word has no meaning to the speaker and is entirely different from the intended word.
Neologism
What is talking around the intended word or idea? It is used as a strategy in speech therapy to improve word finding.
Circumlocution
What are continuous fluent utterances that make little sense but appear to make sense to the speaker? It is typically seen in fluent aphasia.
Jargon
What are communication problems that arise following damage to the brain/nervous system?
Neurogenic Communication Disorders
Damage to what region leads to deficits in executive function (i.e., problem-solving, reasoning), memory, consciousness, impulse control, and motor planning?
Frontal Lobe
Damage to what region leads to deficits in sensing, math, spatial relationships, reading, and writing?
Parietal Lobe
Damage to what region leads to deficits in auditory perception/sensation/integration, categorization, memory, and recognition?
Temporal Lobe
Damage to what region leads to deficits in visual aspects?
Occipital Lobe
Damage to what region leads to hypokinetic or hyperkinetic dysarthria?
Basal Ganglia
Damage to what region leads to deficits in memory and fear or anxieties may increase?
Hippocampus
Damage to what region leads to deficits in attention, consciousness, and non-voluntary function?
Brainstem
Damage to what region leads to deficits in motor coordination and balance? It can lead to ataxia (slurred speech, stumbling, incoordination).
Cerebellum
Damage to what region leads to deficits in expression, receptive deficits, global deficits, cognitive impairments, and right visual field impairment?
Left Hemisphere Damage
Damage to what region leads to deficits in spatial and perception, discourse, pragmatics, attention, impulse behavior, judgement, reasoning, and poor awareness of deficits?
Right Hemisphere Damage
What type of CVA occurs due to a blockage of a blood vessel?
Ischemic
What occurs when a blood clot develops in the blood vessels inside the brain and leads to interrupted blood flow?
Thrombotic CVA
What occurs when a blood clot develops elsewhere in the body and travels to the brain through the brainstem?
Embolic CVA
What type of CVA occurs due to bleeding or blood vessels rupturing? High blood pressure is the most common cause.
Hemorrhagic CVA
What is often called a mini-stroke? It is a temporary clot and may be a warning sign for a future stroke.
Transient Ischemic Attack
Damage to this artery leads to damage in the temporal and occipital lobes. It will also cause writing deficits and memory/cognitive communication deficits.
Posterior Cerebral Artery (PCA)