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

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