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

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