School Neuropsych Flashcards
In what decade did the interest in the school neuropsychology specialization first start?
1980s
Luria divided each of the three functional units into three zones of functioning. What are they called?
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary
In the middle of tessting a ten year old, the student refuses to participate in any further testing. What is the proper legal/ethical thing to do?
Discuss the importance of the evaluation with the student first, but if the student still refuses to participate, respect the rights of the student and do not continue testing.
A significantly low verbal comprehension index score on the WISC-V could indicate?
a) possible poor language skills
b) limited early language exposure
c) possible hearing concerns
d) any or all of the above
D is the answer
Which of the following WISC-V or WISC-V integrated subtests has a working memory demand?
Digit span backward
Which of the following refers to decreased oxygen supply to the brain?
Hypoxia (hypo means lower/ano= no oxygen
The major shortcoming in the structure of standardized, norm-referenced tests with English learners is?
lack of a norm sample representation based on bilingual development
Samantha is working on a math assignment and the teacher asks the class to put away their math work and get out their reading books. Samantha continues to work on her math assignment. What type of attentional processing could be impaired in Samantha?
Shifting attention
What term means impaired face recognition?
Fuchsia form gyrus- prosopagnosia
What term means an impaired ability to recognize and identify visual information?
Visal agnosia: the What pathway of vision
The receptive language center of the brain is located where?
Wernicke’s area
This type of NEPSY II score considers both completion time and the number of errors. What is this type of score called?
Contract Scores (scaled score)
Design Copying Global Score would be an example of what type of NEPSY II Score?
Process score (allows you to look at the process)
Pons
All are examples of Bias except:
a) individuals
b) they
c) another gender
d) opposite gender
d) opposite gender
the type of memory that refers to general knowledge of the world (eg: facts, vocab, rules) is called:
a) working memory
b) procedural memory
c) episodic memory
d) semantic memory
d) Semantic memory
What term is used to describe memory retrieval without the aid of external cues?
B) free recall
Dorsolateral Circuit
Opioids impact on neurobehavioral circuitry involves which of the following?
a) disrupts frontal cortical behavioral control mechanisms and increases limbic negative affect craving and anxiety
b) enhances frontal cortical behavioral control mechanisms and increase limbic positive affect, craving and anxiety
c) both a and b
d) none of the above
a) disrupts frontal cortical behavioral control mechanisms and increases limbic negative affect craving and anxiety
The classic case of Phineas Gage illustrated the behavioral effects of damage to what part of the brain?
Orbitofrontal cortex
In infancy, NVLD children may be initially thought to have any of the following except for one, which one?
a) autistic
b) deafness
c) severe emotional disturbance
d) intellectually disabled
c) severe emotional disturbance
On the D-KEFS Verbal Fluency test, the third condition requires the child to:
switch between words that fit within a two different semantic categories
When evaluating repetition errors on a task, errors that occur far apart are likely to reflect?
Immediate memory deficits
What is the most likely explanation for a pattern of performance where the completion time is above average the error rate is high?
May reflect impulsivity because the work quickly at the expense of accuracy
This pathway extends from the occipital lobe to the temporal lobe and uses a whole-word approach to reading. What is this pathway called?
dorsal stream (fin at the top)
Chronic stress from abuse or neglect releases cortisol which impacts memory performance, clouds thinking, and reduces volume of what part of the brain?
Hippocampus
Cerebellum
Which type of dyslexia has these associated symptoms? Whole word and phonetic reading are damaged. The child must pronounce the letters, recognize the words, and then say them?
Mixed Dyslexia
Research has shown that there are three key regions in the brain that relate to reading, the parietal-temporal region and the occipito-temporal region and a third one. Where is the third region located in the brain?
Frontal area associated with Broca’s area.
Limbic System