Processing Speed Quiz Flashcards
Which of the disorders below is a possible cause of slow processing speed?
a. visual disorders
b. A-D/HD
c. ASD
d. All of the above
D. All of the above
The side effects of some medicines can slow down processing speed. True or False?
True
The neuroanatomy of the processing speed suggests that there is:
a. Less white matter volume
b. Less gray matter volume
c. both A & B
d. neither A nor B
C. Both A & B
What is the term called that gets rid of unused neurons &, as a result, improves processing speed?
a. synaptic cleansing
b. synaptic pruning
c. dendritic cleansing
d. dendritic degradation
B. synatpic pruning
Gray matter volume increases in a linear fashion across development. True or False?
False
Genes have been found which influence both the white matter & gray matter volumes in the brain. True or False?
True
Age alone has been found to account for approximately what percentage of the variability in processing speed within samples of children & adolescents?
a. 50%
b. 60%
c. 70%
d. 80%
C. 70%
Slow processing speed can affect reading in the following ways:
a. Slows reading speed which interferes with reading comprehension
b. Improve reading speed because the children reads fast.
c. Has no effect on reading speed
d. Has no effect on reading comprehension
a. Slows reading speed which interferes with reading comprehension
Schneider & McGrew refer to their overall concept of the speed ability as:
a. processing speed
b. general speediness
c. processing fluency
d. speed, fluency, & efficiency of processing
B. general speediness
Schneider & McGrew identified four broad processing speed abilities. Which one of the choices below is not one of those broad abilities?
a. Broad Decision Speed
b. Retrieval Fluency
c. Broad Psychomotor Speed
d. Perceptual Speed
D. Perceptual Speed
The neuroanatomical bases for psychomotor speed include all the following brain structures, except for one, which one?
a. supplemental motor cortex
b. thalamus
c. basil ganglia
d. cerebellum
B. Thalamus
Decision speed (Gt) is most commonly measured by:
a. CPT
b. fingertip tapping tests
c. oral motor sequencing
d. cancellation types of tests
A. CPT
In the Miller & Maricle (2019) model of processing speed, they identified four second order classifications of processing speed. Which one below is not one of those second order classifications?
a. fluency & accuracy
b. decision speed
c. acquired knowledge fluency
d. performance fluency
B. decision speed
In the Miller & Maricle (2019) model of processing speed, which one below is not an example of a performance fluency narrow ability?
a. Figural fluency
b. Perceptual fluency
c. Psychomotor fluency
d. Retrieval fluency
D. retrieval fluency
In the Miller & Maricle (2019) model of processing speed, the NEPSY-II Visuomotor Precision test would be classified under which third order classification?
a. Figural fluency
b. Perceptual fluency
c. Psychomotor fluency
d. Retrieval fluency
C. Psychomotor fluency