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

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