Quiz 2 Flashcards
What is the general concept of a “token test”?
A test of sentence-level auditory comprehension involving imperative sentences with increasing complexity directing the patient to touch or manipulate a set of tokens
During single-word reading comprehension tests, patients with _________ tend to choose a foil that is visually similar to the test stimulus.
Compromised visual processing
Which standardized aphasia test was one of the first to emphasize the importance of qualitative scoring of responses rather than simply counting errors?
Minnesota Test for Differential Diagnosis of Aphasia (MTDDA)
Which standardized aphasia test allows the clinician to not only determine the presence of aphasia in a client but also the type of aphasia?
Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination
How language is used and how ideas and intentions are communicated in social contexts is known as?
Language Pragmatics
Basals and ceilings are used in standardized tests to shorten testing time and avoid administering tests that are too difficult or too easy for the client?
true
Picture vocabulary tests are not valid tests of single-word comprehension for adults with brain injury because they contain words that are not commonly used in daily life.
true
Sentence comprehension is typically tested by asking patients to perform gestural or manipulative responses to spoken instructions or yes-no questions.
true
What is the medical term for death of brain tissue caused by loss of blood supply?
Infarct
What term is used for the “phenomenon where brain function is disrupted in regions remote from the site of injury but connected to it by neuronal pathways?”
Diaschisis
What are paraphasias?
The substitution of one word for another and/or the substitution or transposition of sounds in words.
Which of the following is a standardized aphasia test?
Minnesota test for differential diagnosis of aphasia
Porch index of communicative ability
Boston diagnostic aphasia examination
Increasing sentence length may facilitate brain-injured adult’s comprehension if the increased length also adds redundancy
true
All of the following are types of cohesive ties except
Salience
The Reading Comprehension Battery for Aphasia is an appropriate screening test for patients with mild reading impairments.
Salience
Directness
. In test of confrontation naming, brain injured patients name pictures, drawings and objects. Tests of responsive naming differ in that the patient gives one-word answers to questions.
false
Which variables affect the ease in which brain-injured adults can retrieve and produce words when given a naming test?
Length and phonologic complexity
Semantic characteristics
Frequency of occurrence
Which variables may affect brain-injured adults’ single-word comprehension
Frequency of Occurrence
Fidelity
Referent Ambiguity
: Most versions of a token test replace the shape of a rectangle with a square because of the greater frequency of the word “square” in the English language.
true
Success in an oral reading requires the patient to comprehend what is being read
false, only test oral reading
Comprehensive language tests measures a patient’s communication performance in:
Vision Audition Speech Writing Gesture
Passage Dependency is a term coined by Tuiman to reflect the extent to which readers must rely on information from printed texts to answer test questions correctly.
true
Most standardized reading test for normal adults and children do not require written answers to test items but allow the test-taker to check off, circle, or underline their choice from an array of possible multiple-choice answers.
TRUE (p. 119)
Which of the following variables does NOT affect the ease with which brain-injured adults can retrieve and produce words in tests of naming:
Frequency of occurrence
Semantic characteristics
Length complexity
phonological complexity
Comprehensive language tests provide a general sense of an individual’s speech, auditory comprehension, reading, and writing.
true
Language pragmatics includes:
Speech acts
Conversational behaviors
Social Behaviors
Conversational rules and conventions
Increasing sentence length may facilitate brain-injured adults’ comprehension if the increased length also adds redundancy.
true
Hemorrhages that occur in the brainstem, basal ganglia, or cerebellum rarely, directly cause aphasia.
true
What is the type of aphasia that causes patients to write at a slanted angle, with letter omission, and in non-cursive penmanship?
broca
This aphasia syndrome, located in the posterior superior temporal lobe, is characterized by poor comprehension, poor short term memory and recall, and fluent speech littered with paraphasias and neologisms.
Wernicke’s aphasia
What type of aphasia is caused by damage to association fiber tracts?
Conduction aphasia
Transcortical motor aphasia
Transcortical sensory aphasia
Ischemic stroke occurs when an artery is blocked and part of the brain loses its blood supply.
true
The most common cause of aphasia in adults is:
stroke
Wernicke’s area and Broca’s area are thought to be connected by a brand of nerve fibers called arcuate fasciculus
true
_____ is when a patient fails to recognize familiar stimuli in a sensory modality even though basic perception in that modality is preserved. (P. 207)
Agnosia
This type of nonfluent aphasia is characterized by a large lesion in the perisylvian zone and severe impairments in all functions of language including verbal paraphasia, poor word retrieval, poor repetition, and poor comprehension.
global
What are the 2 primary input modalities?
Vision and Audition
There are many freestanding tests of brain-injured adults’ reading comprehension.
false
Single word comprehension of brain-injured adults is not strongly affected by whether items in stimulus arrays are real objects, drawings, or pictures.
true
When assessing language, yes-no questions may test which of the following?
Perception of surroundings
General knowledge
Personal information
Knowledge learned in school
There is NO universal list of component skills for reading.
true
Story Retell Procedure (SRP) provides a valid, reliable, and sensitive tool for assessing what part of language
Connected language
Rate at which clinicians administer sentences can have in sentence comprehension tests can have clinical consequences in testing outcomes.
true
Questions that can be answered without reading the related text are said to be
Passage independent
What is the medical term for death of brain tissue caused by loss of blood supply?
Infarct
What term is used for the “phenomenon where brain function is disrupted in regions remote from the site of injury but connected to it by neuronal pathways”?
A. Diaschisis
What are paraphasias?
The substitution of one word for another and/or the substitution or transposition of sounds in words.
A pouch that is a source of cerebral hemorrhages and is formed in weakened arterial walls is called:
Aneurysm
aphasias caused by hemorrhagic strokes are almost always caused by intracerebral hemorrhages.
true
What is responsible for the communication between Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area?
Arcuate fasciculus
What is the motor speech area that is responsible for planning and organizing speech movements?
brocas
A patient that shows impaired ability to comprehend simple spoken or written materials, has semantic and short term memory impairments, and exhibits trouble with recall of verbal materials will most likely be diagnosed with _____________.
Wernicke’s Aphasia
