Neuropsych Final Practice Exam #1- Chapters 18 & 19
  • 1. the inability to acquire new memories
A) transient global amnesia
B) fugue state
C) time-dependent retrograde amnesia
D) retrograde amnesia
E) anterograde amnesia
  • 2. The __________ consolidates memories; the _________ stores them.
A) hippocampus; amygdala
B) neocortex; hippocampus
C) hippocampus; neocortex
D) none of the above
E) amygdala; hippocampus
  • 3. the more the temporal lobe is damaged,
A) the further forward in time the amnesia will extend
B) the less memories will be consolidated
C) the more memories will be consolidated
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 and left; encoding
B) none of the above
C) left; retrieving
D) right; encoding
E) left; encoding
  • 5. The RIGHT ___________ and both RIGHT & LEFT hemispheres of the _____________ are involved in memory retrieval.
A) posterior parietal cortex; dorsolateral frontal cortex
B) dorsolateral frontal cortex; posterior parietal cortex
C) none of the above
D) ventrolateral frontal cortex; posterior parietal cortex
E) posterior parietal cortex; ventrolateral frontal cortex
  • 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 prefrontal, inferior temporal, and occipital cortex
C) bilateral preftonal cortex, posterior temporal, and occipital cortex
D) right parietal cortex, posterior occipital cortex
E) non of the above
  • 7. damage to the ___________ is generally associated with memory disturbance
A) temporal cortex
B) frontal cortex
C) prefrontal cortex
D) occipital cortex
E) parietal 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) Tourette's syndrome
C) Huntington's syndrome
D) Korsakoff's syndrome
E) None of the above
  • 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) ventrolateral thalamus and prefrontal cortex
C) none of the above
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) Huntington's Disease; dissociative amnesia
B) none of the above
C) Alzheimer's Disease; transient global amnesia
D) Korsakoff's Syndrome; anterograde amnesia
E) Herpes Simplex Encephalitis; retrograde 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) cholinergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic
B) dopaminergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic
C) cholinergic, dopaminergic, noradrenergic
D) serotonergic, dopaminergic, noradrenergic
E) cholinergic, dopaminergic, serotonergic
  • 12. emotional memory uses ______________ processing
A) top-down
B) neither top-down or bottom-up
C) bottom-up
D) none of the above
E) both top-down and 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 emotional memory but intact explicit and implicit memory
C) impairment in autobiographical memory but intact emotional and motor memory
D) none of the above
E) impairment in explicit memory but intact emotional and implicit memory
  • 14. In regard to emotional memory, the _______________ is critical.
A) orbitofrontal part of the prefrontal cortex
B) dorsolateral part of the prefrontal cortex
C) ventromedial part of the hippocampus
D) ventromedial part of the amygdala
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) medial temporal and the parietal regions
B) medial temporal and prefrontal regions
C) posterior temporal and hypothalamus
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 working memory but intact motor memory
B) impaired explicit memory but intact implicit emotional memory
C) impaired autobiographical memory but intact semantic memory
D) impaired implicit memory but intact episodic emotional memory
E) none of the above
  • 17. Which structure is involved in fear conditioning?
A) basal ganglia
B) amygdala
C) brain stem
D) cerebellum
E) hippocampus
  • 18. language consists of 4 separate abilities:
A) categorization, organization, labeling, and identifying
B) syntax, lexicon, prosody, and phonemes
C) morphemes, phonemes, syntax, and semantics
D) categorization, labeling categories, sequencing behaviors, and mimicking
E) none of the above
  • 19. gestural theory suggests that gestural language and vocal language depend on similar neural systems, which are ______________________.
A) adjacent cortical regions in the primary motor cortex
B) adjacent cortical regions in the posterior parietal region
C) adjacent cortical regions in the inferior temporal cortex
D) adjacent cortical regions in the visual cortex
E) none of the above
  • 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 in the left hemisphere do not disrupt vocal speech or 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) aphasia, vocal disorders; right handed; right hemisphere
C) none of the above
D) signing disorders, vocal disorders, and aphasia; right handed; left 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) Sensory aphasia; classifying sounds, producing speech, and writing
C) none of the above
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; 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 Broca's aphaisa
B) a fluent aphasia like Wernicke's aphasia
C) a nonfluent aphasia like Wernicke's aphasia
D) none of the above
E) a fluent aphasia like Broca'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) Nonfluent and fluent aphasias can have a number of different symptoms, and each symptom may have a different neural basis.
E) Most of the brain takes part in language in one way or another.
  • 26. damage to the _________ is related to apraxia of speech in ___________.
A) none of the above
B) arcuate fasciculus; Broca's aphasia
C) medial temporal lobe; Wernicke's aphasia
D) dorsal bank of the superior temporal gyrus; Wernicke'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) none of the above
B) impairment in sound articulation and impairment in working memory for sentences
C) recurring utterances and impairment in working memory for sentences
D) apraxia of speech and recurring utterances
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) wernicke's area and the temporal lobe
C) the parietal region and wernicke's area
D) the lateral temporal lobe and underlying grey matter
E) the prefrontal cortex and the dorsal temporal lobe
  • 29. damage to the arcuate fasciculus is related to ___________________ in _______________.
A) none of the above
B) speech comprehension; Wernicke's aphasia
C) speech production; Wernicke's aphasia
D) speech apraxia; Broca's aphasia
E) recurring utterances; Broca's aphasia
  • 30. What is the actual symptom related to damage to Wernicke's area?
A) none of the above
B) impairment in the articulation of sounds
C) iconic memory impairment
D) speech production impairment
E) impairment in sentence comprehension
  • 31. The superior temporal gyrus is involved with
A) object identification
B) sentence comprehension
C) language organization
D) working memory
E) articulation
  • 32. Which of the following is incorrect?

    The RIGHT hemisphere
A) can control semantic processing
B) has good auditory comprehension of language
C) has some reading ability
D) has little writing ability
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 unusual syntactical construction.
C) They can have changes in responses to complex statements.
D) They can have changes in vocabulary selection.
E) They can have changes in the coprehension of metaphors.
  • 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) posterior parietal
C) orbitofrontal
D) none of the above
E) ventromedial temporal
  • 35. Left hemispherectomy patients have language abilities similar to those of the ________ hemisphere in __________ patients.
A) right; commisurotomy
B) left; epileptic
C) left; commisurotomy
D) none of the above
E) right; epileptic
  • 36. Which of the following language functions have equal contributions from both the right and the left hemispheres?
A) sequencing
B) grammar
C) gestures
D) relations
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) phonological dyslexia.
D) surface dyslexia.
E) attentional 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) attentional dyslexia
D) neglect
E) phonological 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) attentional dyslexia
B) neglect
C) phonological dyslexia
D) letter by letter reading
E) deep dyslexia
  • 40. In this type of dyslexia, the key symptoms are semantic errors.
A) deep dyslexia
B) attentional dyslexia
C) developmental dyslexia
D) surface dyslexia
E) phonological dyslexia
  • 41. Which of the following is NOT true concerning dual route theory?
A) it depends on function-anatomy relations
B) it considers words, pictures, and sounds involved in reading
C) it can be applied to language disorders other than dyslexia
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) happy go lucky route
B) dyslexical route
C) nonlexical route
D) dual route
E) lexical route
  • 43. Persons with surface dyslexia are ________________ to process for sound and _________________ process for sense.
A) able; cannot
B) able; can
C) none of the above
D) unable; cannot
E) able; can
  • 44. A patient that misreads the word bird as butterfly has probably
A) processed for sound and not for sense.
B) processed with sound but without sense.
C) none of the above
D) processed without sound and 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) none of the above
C) developmental alexia
D) developmental dyslexia
E) acquired alexia
  • 46. Patients with the inability to comprehend words or to arrange sounds into coherent speech may have damage to the
A) posterior middle temporal gyrus
B) arcuate fasciculus
C) pulvinar nucleus
D) inferior prefrontal cortex
E) Broca's area
  • 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 process irregular words
C) can be related to phonological representations of a word
D) fails to process unfamiliar words
E) can be related to orthographic representations of a word
  • 50. What type of words are problematic when using the nonlexical route?
A) all of the above
B) nonwords
C) regular words
D) irregular words
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