Neuropsych Final Practice Exam #1- Chapters 18 & 19
  • 1. the inability to acquire new memories
A) transient global amnesia
B) retrograde amnesia
C) anterograde amnesia
D) time-dependent retrograde amnesia
E) fugue state
  • 2. The __________ consolidates memories; the _________ stores them.
A) hippocampus; neocortex
B) none of the above
C) hippocampus; amygdala
D) neocortex; hippocampus
E) amygdala; hippocampus
  • 3. the more the temporal lobe is damaged,
A) the more memories will be consolidated
B) the further forward in time the amnesia will extend
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) none of the above
B) left; encoding
C) right; encoding
D) right and left; encoding
E) left; retrieving
  • 5. The RIGHT ___________ and both RIGHT & LEFT hemispheres of the _____________ are involved in memory retrieval.
A) dorsolateral frontal cortex; posterior parietal cortex
B) posterior parietal cortex; dorsolateral frontal cortex
C) posterior parietal cortex; ventrolateral frontal cortex
D) ventrolateral frontal cortex; posterior parietal cortex
E) none of the above
  • 6. color amnesia, proapagnosia, object anomia, and topographic amnesia are related to injuries of the
A) bilateral preftonal cortex, posterior temporal, and occipital cortex
B) non of the above
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) frontal cortex
C) parietal cortex
D) prefrontal cortex
E) temporal 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) Huntington's syndrome
E) Korsakoff's syndrome
  • 9. Korsakoff's syndrome occurs due to a thiamine (Vitamin B1) deficiency, which ultimately damages the
A) hippocampus and the perforant pathway
B) none of the above
C) ventrolateral thalamus and prefrontal cortex
D) hippocampus and the fornix fimbria 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) none of the above
B) Herpes Simplex Encephalitis; retrograde amnesia
C) Korsakoff's Syndrome; anterograde 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) dopaminergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic
B) cholinergic, dopaminergic, noradrenergic
C) serotonergic, dopaminergic, noradrenergic
D) cholinergic, dopaminergic, serotonergic
E) cholinergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic
  • 12. emotional memory uses ______________ processing
A) both top-down and bottom-up
B) top-down
C) bottom-up
D) neither top-down or bottom-up
E) none of the above
  • 13. if the amygdala were to be damaged, there would be
A) impairment in implicit memory but intact explicit and emotional memory
B) none of the above
C) impairment in autobiographical memory but intact emotional and motor memory
D) impairment in emotional memory but intact explicit and implicit memory
E) impairment in explicit memory but intact emotional and implicit memory
  • 14. In regard to emotional memory, the _______________ is critical.
A) ventromedial part of the amygdala
B) basolateral part of the amygdala
C) dorsolateral part of the prefrontal cortex
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) medial temporal and the parietal regions
C) medial temporal and prefrontal regions
D) posterior temporal and the hippocampal regions
E) posterior temporal and hypothalamus
  • 16. a patient w/ severe cortical damage but an intact amygdala would have
A) impaired explicit memory but intact implicit emotional memory
B) none of the above
C) impaired working memory but intact motor 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) basal ganglia
D) hippocampus
E) cerebellum
  • 18. language consists of 4 separate abilities:
A) categorization, organization, labeling, and identifying
B) morphemes, phonemes, syntax, and semantics
C) categorization, labeling categories, sequencing behaviors, and mimicking
D) none of the above
E) syntax, lexicon, prosody, and phonemes
  • 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 primary motor cortex
C) adjacent cortical regions in the posterior parietal region
D) adjacent cortical regions in the visual cortex
E) adjacent cortical regions in the inferior temporal cortex
  • 20. Kimura's studies on signing found that
A) lesions in the left hemisphere do not disrupt vocal speech or 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 do not disrupt 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) signing disorders, vocal disorders; left handed, left hemisphere
D) none of the above
E) signing disorders, vocal disorders, and aphasia; right handed; left hemisphere
  • 22. Patients with _______________ have 3 characteristic deficits, in
A) paraphasia; correction of words, production of intended words, and writing
B) Sensory aphasia; classifying sounds, producing speech, and writing
C) expressive aphasia; labeling sounds, organizing speech, and reading
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; Paraphasia
B) none of the above
C) Wernicke's aphasia; Sensory aphasia
D) Pure aphasia; Sensory aphasia
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) none of the above
B) a fluent aphasia like Broca's aphasia
C) a nonfluent aphasia like Wernicke's aphasia
D) a fluent aphasia like Wernicke's aphasia
E) a nonfluent aphasia like Broca's aphaisa
  • 25. Which of the following is NOT true?
A) Individual differences in strokes change the outcomes and symptoms related to different types of aphasia.
B) Each type of aphasia is involved with damage to a specific neural circuit
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) 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) medial temporal lobe; Wernicke's aphasia
B) insula; Broca's aphasia
C) none of the above
D) dorsal bank of the superior temporal gyrus; Wernicke'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) none of the above
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) the parietal region and wernicke's area
C) the lateral temporal lobe and underlying grey matter
D) wernicke's area and the temporal lobe
E) the prefrontal cortex and the dorsal temporal lobe
  • 29. damage to the arcuate fasciculus is related to ___________________ in _______________.
A) speech production; Wernicke's aphasia
B) speech comprehension; Wernicke's aphasia
C) none of the above
D) recurring utterances; Broca's aphasia
E) speech apraxia; Broca'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) speech production impairment
E) impairment in the articulation of sounds
  • 31. The superior temporal gyrus is involved with
A) language organization
B) articulation
C) sentence comprehension
D) object identification
E) working memory
  • 32. Which of the following is incorrect?

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