Neuropsych Final Practice Exam #1- Chapters 18 & 19
  • 1. the inability to acquire new memories
A) time-dependent retrograde amnesia
B) transient global amnesia
C) fugue state
D) anterograde amnesia
E) retrograde amnesia
  • 2. The __________ consolidates memories; the _________ stores them.
A) hippocampus; amygdala
B) hippocampus; neocortex
C) neocortex; hippocampus
D) amygdala; hippocampus
E) none of the above
  • 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 less memories will be consolidated
D) none of the above
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) none of the above
B) posterior parietal cortex; dorsolateral frontal cortex
C) dorsolateral frontal cortex; posterior parietal cortex
D) posterior parietal cortex; ventrolateral 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) right parietal cortex, posterior occipital cortex
B) bilateral prefrontal, inferior temporal, and occipital cortex
C) bilateral parietal, posterior temporal, and occipital cortex
D) bilateral preftonal cortex, posterior temporal, and occipital cortex
E) non of the above
  • 7. damage to the ___________ is generally associated with memory disturbance
A) temporal cortex
B) prefrontal cortex
C) parietal cortex
D) occipital cortex
E) frontal cortex
  • 8. anterograde amnesia, retrograde amnesia, confabulation, meager content in conversation, lack of insight, and apathy are symptoms related to
A) Tourette's syndrome
B) None of the above
C) Alzheimer's disease
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) hippocampus and the fornix fimbria pathway
B) hippocampus and the perforant pathway
C) medial thalamus and mammilary bodies of the hypothalamus
D) none of the above
E) ventrolateral thalamus and prefrontal cortex
  • 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) none of the above
D) Herpes Simplex Encephalitis; retrograde amnesia
E) Alzheimer's Disease; transient global 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) dopaminergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic
B) cholinergic, dopaminergic, noradrenergic
C) cholinergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic
D) cholinergic, dopaminergic, serotonergic
E) serotonergic, dopaminergic, noradrenergic
  • 12. emotional memory uses ______________ processing
A) top-down
B) neither top-down or bottom-up
C) none of the above
D) bottom-up
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 explicit memory but intact emotional and implicit memory
C) none of the above
D) impairment in autobiographical memory but intact emotional and motor memory
E) impairment in emotional memory but intact explicit and implicit memory
  • 14. In regard to emotional memory, the _______________ is critical.
A) dorsolateral part of the prefrontal cortex
B) ventromedial part of the hippocampus
C) orbitofrontal part of the prefrontal cortex
D) basolateral part of the amygdala
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 the parietal regions
B) posterior temporal and the hippocampal regions
C) posterior temporal and hypothalamus
D) medial temporal and prefrontal regions
E) none of the above
  • 16. a patient w/ severe cortical damage but an intact amygdala would have
A) none of the above
B) impaired working memory but intact motor memory
C) impaired explicit memory but intact implicit emotional memory
D) impaired autobiographical memory but intact semantic memory
E) impaired implicit memory but intact episodic emotional memory
  • 17. Which structure is involved in fear conditioning?
A) amygdala
B) brain stem
C) hippocampus
D) cerebellum
E) basal ganglia
  • 18. language consists of 4 separate abilities:
A) categorization, organization, labeling, and identifying
B) categorization, labeling categories, sequencing behaviors, and mimicking
C) syntax, lexicon, prosody, and phonemes
D) morphemes, phonemes, syntax, and semantics
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 visual cortex
B) adjacent cortical regions in the posterior parietal region
C) adjacent cortical regions in the inferior temporal cortex
D) none of the above
E) adjacent cortical regions in the primary motor cortex
  • 20. Kimura's studies on signing found that
A) lesions that disrupt signing do not disrupt vocal speech
B) lesions in the left hemisphere do not disrupt vocal speech or signing
C) lesions that disrupt vocal speech do not disrupt signing
D) lesions in the right 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; left handed, left hemisphere
B) none of the above
C) aphasia, vocal disorders; right handed; right hemisphere
D) signing disorders, vocal disorders, and aphasia; right handed; right hemisphere
E) signing disorders, vocal disorders, and aphasia; right handed; left hemisphere
  • 22. Patients with _______________ have 3 characteristic deficits, in
A) expressive aphasia; labeling sounds, organizing speech, and reading
B) paraphasia; correction of words, production of intended words, and writing
C) Sensory aphasia; classifying sounds, producing speech, and writing
D) none of the above
E) pure aphasia; recognition of words, categorizing sounds, 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) none of the above
C) Pure aphasia; Sensory aphasia
D) Wernicke's aphasia; Paraphasia
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) a fluent aphasia like Broca's aphasia
B) a nonfluent aphasia like Broca's aphaisa
C) a fluent aphasia like Wernicke's aphasia
D) a nonfluent aphasia like Wernicke's aphasia
E) none of the above
  • 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) Most of the brain takes part in language in one way or another.
D) Nonfluent and fluent aphasias can have a number of different symptoms, and each symptom may have a different neural basis.
E) Individual differences in strokes change the outcomes and symptoms related to different types of aphasia.
  • 26. damage to the _________ is related to apraxia of speech in ___________.
A) dorsal bank of the superior temporal gyrus; Wernicke's aphasia
B) none of the above
C) medial temporal lobe; 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) 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 prefrontal cortex and the dorsal temporal lobe
C) the medial temporal lobe and underlying white matter
D) the parietal region and wernicke's area
E) the lateral temporal lobe and underlying grey matter
  • 29. damage to the arcuate fasciculus is related to ___________________ in _______________.
A) recurring utterances; Broca's aphasia
B) speech production; Wernicke's aphasia
C) speech apraxia; Broca's aphasia
D) none of the above
E) speech comprehension; Wernicke's aphasia
  • 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) none of the above
E) iconic memory impairment
  • 31. The superior temporal gyrus is involved with
A) object identification
B) sentence comprehension
C) language organization
D) articulation
E) working memory
  • 32. Which of the following is incorrect?

    The RIGHT hemisphere
A) can control semantic processing
B) has some reading ability
C) has good auditory comprehension of language
D) can control speech
E) has little writing ability
  • 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 unusual syntactical construction.
C) They can have changes in the coprehension of metaphors.
D) They can have changes in vocabulary selection.
E) They can have severe deficits in speech.
  • 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) 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) none of the above
B) right; commisurotomy
C) left; epileptic
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) gestures
B) melody
C) relations
D) grammar
E) sequencing
  • 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) surface dyslexia.
D) phonological 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) neglect
B) attentional dyslexia
C) phonological dyslexia
D) letter by letter reading
E) deep 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) deep dyslexia
C) letter by letter reading
D) neglect
E) phonological dyslexia
  • 40. In this type of dyslexia, the key symptoms are semantic errors.
A) deep dyslexia
B) surface dyslexia
C) attentional dyslexia
D) developmental dyslexia
E) phonological dyslexia
  • 41. Which of the following is NOT true concerning dual route theory?
A) it considers words, pictures, and sounds involved in reading
B) it is an effective way to diagnose developmental and acquired dyslexia
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) nonlexical route
B) dual route
C) happy go lucky route
D) lexical route
E) dyslexical route
  • 43. Persons with surface dyslexia are ________________ to process for sound and _________________ process for sense.
A) able; can
B) none of the above
C) unable; cannot
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 for sense and not for sound.
C) processed without sound and without sense.
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) acquired alexia
B) acquired dyslexia
C) none of the above
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) inferior prefrontal cortex
B) pulvinar nucleus
C) posterior middle temporal gyrus
D) arcuate fasciculus
E) Broca's area
  • 47. Rhythm of language is related to
A) both the Left and the Right hemisphere
B) the Right hemisphere
C) the Left hemisphere
  • 48. Melody of language is related to the
A) right hemisphere
B) left and the right hemiheres
C) left hemisphere
  • 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 orthographic representations of a word
D) can be related to phonological representations of a word
E) fails to process unfamiliar 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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