Neuropsych Final Practice Exam #1- Chapters 18 & 19
  • 1. the inability to acquire new memories
A) anterograde amnesia
B) time-dependent retrograde amnesia
C) transient global amnesia
D) fugue state
E) retrograde amnesia
  • 2. The __________ consolidates memories; the _________ stores them.
A) none of the above
B) amygdala; hippocampus
C) hippocampus; neocortex
D) neocortex; hippocampus
E) hippocampus; amygdala
  • 3. the more the temporal lobe is damaged,
A) the less memories will be consolidated
B) the further back in time the amnesia will extend
C) the further forward in time the amnesia will extend
D) the more memories will be consolidated
E) none of the above
  • 4. The _______ prefrontal cortex is more involved in _____ information.
A) right and left; encoding
B) none of the above
C) left; encoding
D) right; encoding
E) left; retrieving
  • 5. The RIGHT ___________ and both RIGHT & LEFT hemispheres of the _____________ are involved in memory retrieval.
A) dorsolateral frontal cortex; posterior parietal cortex
B) posterior parietal cortex; ventrolateral frontal cortex
C) ventrolateral frontal cortex; posterior parietal cortex
D) posterior parietal cortex; dorsolateral frontal cortex
E) none of the above
  • 6. color amnesia, proapagnosia, object anomia, and topographic amnesia are related to injuries of the
A) right parietal cortex, posterior occipital cortex
B) non of the above
C) bilateral preftonal cortex, posterior temporal, and occipital cortex
D) bilateral parietal, posterior temporal, and occipital cortex
E) bilateral prefrontal, inferior temporal, and occipital cortex
  • 7. damage to the ___________ is generally associated with memory disturbance
A) occipital cortex
B) temporal cortex
C) parietal cortex
D) prefrontal cortex
E) frontal cortex
  • 8. anterograde amnesia, retrograde amnesia, confabulation, meager content in conversation, lack of insight, and apathy are symptoms related to
A) Alzheimer's disease
B) None of the above
C) Tourette's syndrome
D) Korsakoff's syndrome
E) Huntington's syndrome
  • 9. Korsakoff's syndrome occurs due to a thiamine (Vitamin B1) deficiency, which ultimately damages the
A) medial thalamus and mammilary bodies of the hypothalamus
B) none of the above
C) hippocampus and the fornix fimbria pathway
D) ventrolateral thalamus and prefrontal cortex
E) hippocampus and the perforant pathway
  • 10. Damage of the lateral temporal cortex, insula, & medial frontal cortex occurs in _____________ and suggests that the insula is implicated in _________________.
A) Herpes Simplex Encephalitis; retrograde amnesia
B) none of the above
C) Alzheimer's Disease; transient global amnesia
D) Huntington's Disease; dissociative amnesia
E) Korsakoff's Syndrome; anterograde amnesia
  • 11. Even when cortical/limbic structures are intact, loss of neurons in the _____________, _______________, or ___________ systems can be a cause of amnesia related to autobiographic or semantic memory.
A) serotonergic, dopaminergic, noradrenergic
B) dopaminergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic
C) cholinergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic
D) cholinergic, dopaminergic, serotonergic
E) cholinergic, dopaminergic, noradrenergic
  • 12. emotional memory uses ______________ processing
A) top-down
B) bottom-up
C) none of the above
D) both top-down and bottom-up
E) neither top-down or bottom-up
  • 13. if the amygdala were to be damaged, there would be
A) impairment in autobiographical memory but intact emotional and motor memory
B) impairment in implicit memory but intact explicit and emotional memory
C) impairment in explicit memory but intact emotional and implicit memory
D) none of the above
E) impairment in emotional memory but intact explicit and implicit memory
  • 14. In regard to emotional memory, the _______________ is critical.
A) ventromedial part of the amygdala
B) dorsolateral part of the prefrontal cortex
C) ventromedial part of the hippocampus
D) orbitofrontal part of the prefrontal cortex
E) basolateral part of the amygdala
  • 15. For emotional memory, the cholinergic and noradrenergic systems stimulate the amygdala to lay down memory circuits in the ______________.
A) posterior temporal and the hippocampal regions
B) posterior temporal and hypothalamus
C) medial temporal and the parietal regions
D) none of the above
E) medial temporal and prefrontal regions
  • 16. a patient w/ severe cortical damage but an intact amygdala would have
A) impaired explicit memory but intact implicit emotional memory
B) impaired implicit memory but intact episodic emotional memory
C) none of the above
D) impaired working memory but intact motor memory
E) impaired autobiographical memory but intact semantic memory
  • 17. Which structure is involved in fear conditioning?
A) brain stem
B) basal ganglia
C) amygdala
D) cerebellum
E) hippocampus
  • 18. language consists of 4 separate abilities:
A) syntax, lexicon, prosody, and phonemes
B) none of the above
C) categorization, labeling categories, sequencing behaviors, and mimicking
D) categorization, organization, labeling, and identifying
E) morphemes, phonemes, syntax, and semantics
  • 19. gestural theory suggests that gestural language and vocal language depend on similar neural systems, which are ______________________.
A) none of the above
B) adjacent cortical regions in the primary motor cortex
C) adjacent cortical regions in the posterior parietal region
D) adjacent cortical regions in the visual cortex
E) adjacent cortical regions in the inferior temporal cortex
  • 20. Kimura's studies on signing found that
A) lesions in the right hemisphere do not disrupt vocal speech or signing
B) lesions that disrupt vocal speech do not disrupt signing
C) lesions that disrupt vocal speech also disrupt signing
D) lesions that disrupt signing do not disrupt vocal speech
E) lesions in the left hemisphere do not disrupt vocal speech or signing
  • 21. In Kimura's studies, patients w/ ________________ who were ________ handed had lesions in the _______ hemisphere.
A) aphasia, vocal disorders; right handed; right hemisphere
B) signing disorders, vocal disorders, and aphasia; right handed; left hemisphere
C) signing disorders, vocal disorders, and aphasia; right handed; right hemisphere
D) none of the above
E) signing disorders, vocal disorders; left handed, left hemisphere
  • 22. Patients with _______________ have 3 characteristic deficits, in
A) none of the above
B) Sensory aphasia; classifying sounds, producing speech, and writing
C) expressive aphasia; labeling sounds, organizing speech, and reading
D) pure aphasia; recognition of words, categorizing sounds, and writing
E) paraphasia; correction of words, production of intended words, and writing
  • 23. Patients with ____________ have trouble switching from one sound to another; whereas, patients with ___________ have trouble with the reception of language.
A) Wernicke's aphasia; Paraphasia
B) none of the above
C) Broca's aphasia; Wernicke's aphasia
D) Pure aphasia; Sensory aphasia
E) Wernicke's aphasia; Sensory aphasia
  • 24. a patient who speaks in short phrases with pauses so that only the key words needed for communication are used probably hase
A) none of the above
B) a fluent aphasia like Broca's aphasia
C) a fluent aphasia like Wernicke's aphasia
D) a nonfluent aphasia like Broca's aphaisa
E) a nonfluent aphasia like Wernicke's aphasia
  • 25. Which of the following is NOT true?
A) Most of the brain takes part in language in one way or another.
B) Because symptoms are the worst right after the stroke, but can improve over time, damage can not be isolated to one part of the brain.
C) Each type of aphasia is involved with damage to a specific neural circuit
D) Individual differences in strokes change the outcomes and symptoms related to different types of aphasia.
E) Nonfluent and fluent aphasias can have a number of different symptoms, and each symptom may have a different neural basis.
  • 26. damage to the _________ is related to apraxia of speech in ___________.
A) dorsal bank of the superior temporal gyrus; Wernicke's aphasia
B) medial temporal lobe; Wernicke's aphasia
C) arcuate fasciculus; Broca's aphasia
D) insula; Broca's aphasia
E) none of the above
  • 27. Which 2 symptoms of Broca's aphasia are actually related to damage of Broca's area?
A) impairment in sentence comprehension and impairment in articulation of sounds
B) apraxia of speech and recurring utterances
C) impairment in sound articulation and impairment in working memory for sentences
D) none of the above
E) recurring utterances and impairment in working memory for sentences
  • 28. most of the core difficulties involved with fluent aphasias are associated with damage to
A) the lateral temporal lobe and underlying grey matter
B) wernicke's area and the temporal lobe
C) the medial temporal lobe and underlying white matter
D) the prefrontal cortex and the dorsal temporal lobe
E) the parietal region and wernicke's area
  • 29. damage to the arcuate fasciculus is related to ___________________ in _______________.
A) speech comprehension; Wernicke's aphasia
B) recurring utterances; Broca's aphasia
C) speech production; Wernicke's aphasia
D) speech apraxia; Broca's aphasia
E) none of the above
  • 30. What is the actual symptom related to damage to Wernicke's area?
A) impairment in the articulation of sounds
B) impairment in sentence comprehension
C) speech production impairment
D) iconic memory impairment
E) none of the above
  • 31. The superior temporal gyrus is involved with
A) articulation
B) sentence comprehension
C) language organization
D) working memory
E) object identification
  • 32. Which of the following is incorrect?

    The RIGHT hemisphere
A) has good auditory comprehension of language
B) has little writing ability
C) has some reading ability
D) can control semantic processing
E) can control speech
  • 33. Which of the following is NOT true about patients with RIGHT hemisphere lesions?
A) They can have severe deficits in speech.
B) They can have changes in the coprehension of metaphors.
C) They can have changes in vocabulary selection.
D) They can have unusual syntactical construction.
E) They can have changes in responses to complex statements.
  • 34. Right ______________ lesions are associated with reduced verbal fluency, deficits in the comprehension of tone of voice, and the production of emotional tone.
A) none of the above
B) ventromedial temporal
C) posterior parietal
D) medial temporal
E) orbitofrontal
  • 35. Left hemispherectomy patients have language abilities similar to those of the ________ hemisphere in __________ patients.
A) left; commisurotomy
B) left; epileptic
C) none of the above
D) right; commisurotomy
E) right; epileptic
  • 36. Which of the following language functions have equal contributions from both the right and the left hemispheres?
A) gestures
B) grammar
C) relations
D) sequencing
E) melody
  • 37. When letter naming is difficult when more than one letter is present, but normal when only one letter is present, a patient may have
A) none of the above.
B) attentional dyslexia.
C) surface dyslexia.
D) phonological dyslexia.
E) deep dyslexia.
  • 38. Patients with this problem can read words perfectly fine. It's the nonwords that they have real trouble with.
A) phonological dyslexia
B) letter by letter reading
C) neglect
D) deep dyslexia
E) attentional dyslexia
  • 39. This may be present in patients with brain damage who misread the first half of a word or misread the last part of a word:
A) phonological dyslexia
B) letter by letter reading
C) neglect
D) deep dyslexia
E) attentional dyslexia
  • 40. In this type of dyslexia, the key symptoms are semantic errors.
A) surface dyslexia
B) attentional dyslexia
C) phonological dyslexia
D) developmental dyslexia
E) deep dyslexia
  • 41. Which of the following is NOT true concerning dual route theory?
A) it depends on function-anatomy relations
B) it is concerned with the anatomical organization of language
C) it can be applied to language disorders other than dyslexia
D) it considers words, pictures, and sounds involved in reading
E) it is an effective way to diagnose developmental and acquired dyslexia
  • 42. this way of reading relies on picture or sound representations of a whole word
A) dyslexical route
B) nonlexical route
C) dual route
D) lexical route
E) happy go lucky route
  • 43. Persons with surface dyslexia are ________________ to process for sound and _________________ process for sense.
A) able; can
B) none of the above
C) able; cannot
D) able; can
E) unable; cannot
  • 44. A patient that misreads the word bird as butterfly has probably
A) processed for sense and not for sound.
B) processed with sound but without sense.
C) none of the above
D) processed for sound and not for sense.
E) processed without sound and without sense.
  • 45. tumors, lesions, and brain injuries are most likely related to
A) acquired alexia
B) none of the above
C) acquired dyslexia
D) developmental alexia
E) developmental dyslexia
  • 46. Patients with the inability to comprehend words or to arrange sounds into coherent speech may have damage to the
A) arcuate fasciculus
B) pulvinar nucleus
C) posterior middle temporal gyrus
D) Broca's area
E) inferior prefrontal cortex
  • 47. Rhythm of language is related to
A) the Right hemisphere
B) the Left hemisphere
C) both the Left and the Right hemisphere
  • 48. Melody of language is related to the
A) right hemisphere
B) left hemisphere
C) left and the right hemiheres
  • 49. Which of the following is NOT true in regard to the lexical route of reading?
A) fails to process unfamiliar words
B) can be related to orthographic representations of a word
C) can process nonwords
D) can be related to phonological representations of a word
E) can process irregular words
  • 50. What type of words are problematic when using the nonlexical route?
A) all of the above
B) irregular words
C) nonwords
D) regular words
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