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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) time-dependent retrograde amnesia
C) fugue state
D) retrograde amnesia
E) transient global amnesia
  • 2. The __________ consolidates memories; the _________ stores them.
A) hippocampus; neocortex
B) none of the above
C) neocortex; hippocampus
D) hippocampus; amygdala
E) amygdala; hippocampus
  • 3. the more the temporal lobe is damaged,
A) the further back in time the amnesia will extend
B) none of the above
C) the further forward in time the amnesia will extend
D) the more memories will be consolidated
E) the less memories will be consolidated
  • 4. The _______ prefrontal cortex is more involved in _____ information.
A) left; encoding
B) none of the above
C) right and left; encoding
D) right; encoding
E) left; retrieving
  • 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) 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) non of the above
B) bilateral preftonal cortex, posterior temporal, and occipital cortex
C) bilateral prefrontal, inferior temporal, and occipital cortex
D) right parietal cortex, posterior occipital cortex
E) bilateral parietal, posterior temporal, and occipital cortex
  • 7. damage to the ___________ is generally associated with memory disturbance
A) occipital cortex
B) prefrontal cortex
C) frontal 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) Huntington's syndrome
B) Alzheimer's disease
C) Tourette'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) hippocampus and the perforant pathway
B) medial thalamus and mammilary bodies of the hypothalamus
C) hippocampus and the fornix fimbria pathway
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) none of the above
B) Alzheimer's Disease; transient global amnesia
C) Huntington's Disease; dissociative amnesia
D) Herpes Simplex Encephalitis; retrograde amnesia
E) Korsakoff's Syndrome; anterograde 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, dopaminergic, noradrenergic
B) serotonergic, dopaminergic, noradrenergic
C) cholinergic, dopaminergic, serotonergic
D) cholinergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic
E) dopaminergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic
  • 12. emotional memory uses ______________ processing
A) none of the above
B) neither top-down or bottom-up
C) bottom-up
D) both top-down and bottom-up
E) top-down
  • 13. if the amygdala were to be damaged, there would be
A) impairment in emotional memory but intact explicit and implicit memory
B) none of the above
C) impairment in autobiographical memory but intact emotional and motor memory
D) impairment in explicit memory but intact emotional and implicit memory
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) ventromedial part of the amygdala
D) ventromedial part of the hippocampus
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) none of the above
B) posterior temporal and hypothalamus
C) medial temporal and prefrontal regions
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) none of the above
B) impaired working memory but intact motor memory
C) impaired implicit memory but intact episodic emotional memory
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) hippocampus
B) amygdala
C) basal ganglia
D) cerebellum
E) brain stem
  • 18. language consists of 4 separate abilities:
A) morphemes, phonemes, syntax, and semantics
B) syntax, lexicon, prosody, and phonemes
C) none of the above
D) categorization, organization, labeling, and identifying
E) categorization, labeling categories, sequencing behaviors, and mimicking
  • 19. gestural theory suggests that gestural language and vocal language depend on similar neural systems, which are ______________________.
A) adjacent cortical regions in the inferior temporal cortex
B) adjacent cortical regions in the primary motor cortex
C) adjacent cortical regions in the visual cortex
D) adjacent cortical regions in the posterior parietal region
E) none of the above
  • 20. Kimura's studies on signing found that
A) lesions that disrupt signing do not disrupt vocal speech
B) lesions that disrupt vocal speech do not disrupt signing
C) lesions in the right hemisphere do not disrupt vocal speech or signing
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) signing disorders, vocal disorders, and aphasia; right handed; right hemisphere
B) aphasia, vocal disorders; right handed; right hemisphere
C) signing disorders, vocal disorders; left handed, left hemisphere
D) signing disorders, vocal disorders, and aphasia; right handed; left hemisphere
E) none of the above
  • 22. Patients with _______________ have 3 characteristic deficits, in
A) none of the above
B) pure aphasia; recognition of words, categorizing sounds, and writing
C) expressive aphasia; labeling sounds, organizing speech, and reading
D) paraphasia; correction of words, production of intended words, 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) Wernicke's aphasia; Paraphasia
B) Broca's aphasia; Wernicke's aphasia
C) none of the above
D) Pure aphasia; Sensory aphasia
E) Wernicke's 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 fluent aphasia like Wernicke's aphasia
B) a nonfluent aphasia like Broca's aphaisa
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) 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) Each type of aphasia is involved with damage to a specific neural circuit
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) 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) 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) none of the above
B) impairment in sentence comprehension and impairment in articulation of sounds
C) impairment in sound articulation and impairment in working memory for sentences
D) recurring utterances and impairment in working memory for sentences
E) apraxia of speech and recurring utterances
  • 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 parietal region and wernicke's area
C) the lateral temporal lobe and underlying grey matter
D) the prefrontal cortex and the dorsal temporal lobe
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 comprehension; Wernicke's aphasia
C) speech apraxia; Broca's aphasia
D) speech production; Wernicke's aphasia
E) none of the above
  • 30. What is the actual symptom related to damage to Wernicke's area?
A) iconic memory impairment
B) impairment in the articulation of sounds
C) none of the above
D) impairment in sentence comprehension
E) speech production impairment
  • 31. The superior temporal gyrus is involved with
A) sentence comprehension
B) articulation
C) object identification
D) working memory
E) language organization
  • 32. Which of the following is incorrect?

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