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

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