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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) neocortex; hippocampus
B) none of the above
C) hippocampus; neocortex
D) hippocampus; amygdala
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) right and left; encoding
B) right; encoding
C) left; encoding
D) none of the above
E) left; retrieving
  • 5. The RIGHT ___________ and both RIGHT & LEFT hemispheres of the _____________ are involved in memory retrieval.
A) posterior parietal cortex; ventrolateral frontal cortex
B) dorsolateral frontal cortex; posterior parietal cortex
C) ventrolateral frontal cortex; posterior parietal cortex
D) posterior parietal cortex; dorsolateral frontal 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) right parietal cortex, posterior occipital cortex
D) bilateral prefrontal, inferior temporal, and occipital cortex
E) bilateral parietal, posterior temporal, and occipital cortex
  • 7. damage to the ___________ is generally associated with memory disturbance
A) temporal cortex
B) parietal cortex
C) frontal cortex
D) occipital cortex
E) prefrontal 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) Huntington's syndrome
C) Tourette's syndrome
D) None of the above
E) Korsakoff'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) medial thalamus and mammilary bodies of the hypothalamus
C) none of the above
D) ventrolateral thalamus and prefrontal cortex
E) hippocampus and the perforant pathway
  • 10. Damage of the lateral temporal cortex, insula, & medial frontal cortex occurs in _____________ and suggests that the insula is implicated in _________________.
A) Alzheimer's Disease; transient global amnesia
B) Herpes Simplex Encephalitis; retrograde amnesia
C) Korsakoff's Syndrome; anterograde amnesia
D) Huntington's Disease; dissociative amnesia
E) none of the above
  • 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) cholinergic, dopaminergic, serotonergic
C) dopaminergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic
D) cholinergic, serotonergic, noradrenergic
E) cholinergic, dopaminergic, noradrenergic
  • 12. emotional memory uses ______________ processing
A) top-down
B) neither top-down or bottom-up
C) both top-down and bottom-up
D) bottom-up
E) none of the above
  • 13. if the amygdala were to be damaged, there would be
A) impairment in autobiographical memory but intact emotional and motor memory
B) impairment in explicit memory but intact emotional and implicit memory
C) impairment in emotional memory but intact explicit and implicit memory
D) impairment in implicit memory but intact explicit and emotional memory
E) none of the above
  • 14. In regard to emotional memory, the _______________ is critical.
A) ventromedial part of the amygdala
B) ventromedial part of the hippocampus
C) orbitofrontal part of the prefrontal cortex
D) basolateral part of the amygdala
E) dorsolateral 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) posterior temporal and hypothalamus
D) posterior temporal and the hippocampal regions
E) medial temporal and prefrontal 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) hippocampus
B) cerebellum
C) basal ganglia
D) amygdala
E) brain stem
  • 18. language consists of 4 separate abilities:
A) syntax, lexicon, prosody, and phonemes
B) morphemes, phonemes, syntax, and semantics
C) categorization, organization, labeling, and identifying
D) none of the above
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) none of the above
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) adjacent cortical regions in the primary motor cortex
  • 20. Kimura's studies on signing found that
A) lesions in the right hemisphere do not disrupt vocal speech or signing
B) lesions that disrupt vocal speech do not disrupt 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; left handed, left hemisphere
B) signing disorders, vocal disorders, and aphasia; right handed; left hemisphere
C) none of the above
D) aphasia, vocal disorders; right handed; right hemisphere
E) signing disorders, vocal disorders, and aphasia; right handed; right hemisphere
  • 22. Patients with _______________ have 3 characteristic deficits, in
A) paraphasia; correction of words, production of intended words, and writing
B) pure aphasia; recognition of words, categorizing sounds, and writing
C) expressive aphasia; labeling sounds, organizing speech, and reading
D) Sensory aphasia; classifying sounds, producing speech, and writing
E) none of the above
  • 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) Broca's aphasia; Wernicke's aphasia
E) Wernicke's aphasia; Paraphasia
  • 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 fluent aphasia like Wernicke's aphasia
D) a nonfluent aphasia like Wernicke's aphasia
E) a nonfluent aphasia like Broca's aphaisa
  • 25. Which of the following is NOT true?
A) Most of the brain takes part in language in one way or another.
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) Individual differences in strokes change the outcomes and symptoms related to different types of aphasia.
E) Nonfluent and fluent aphasias can have a number of different symptoms, and each symptom may have a different neural basis.
  • 26. damage to the _________ is related to apraxia of speech in ___________.
A) insula; Broca's aphasia
B) none of the above
C) medial temporal lobe; Wernicke's aphasia
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) apraxia of speech and recurring utterances
B) impairment in sentence comprehension and impairment in articulation of sounds
C) none of the above
D) recurring utterances and impairment in working memory for sentences
E) impairment in sound articulation and impairment in working memory for sentences
  • 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 prefrontal cortex and the dorsal temporal lobe
C) wernicke's area and the temporal lobe
D) the medial temporal lobe and underlying white matter
E) the parietal region and wernicke's area
  • 29. damage to the arcuate fasciculus is related to ___________________ in _______________.
A) speech comprehension; Wernicke's aphasia
B) recurring utterances; Broca's aphasia
C) speech apraxia; Broca's aphasia
D) none of the above
E) speech production; Wernicke's aphasia
  • 30. What is the actual symptom related to damage to Wernicke's area?
A) speech production impairment
B) iconic memory impairment
C) impairment in sentence comprehension
D) none of the above
E) impairment in the articulation of sounds
  • 31. The superior temporal gyrus is involved with
A) articulation
B) language organization
C) working memory
D) sentence comprehension
E) object identification
  • 32. Which of the following is incorrect?

    The RIGHT hemisphere
A) can control speech
B) can control semantic processing
C) has little writing ability
D) has good auditory comprehension of language
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 changes in vocabulary selection.
D) They can have unusual syntactical construction.
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) none of the above
D) posterior parietal
E) orbitofrontal
  • 35. Left hemispherectomy patients have language abilities similar to those of the ________ hemisphere in __________ patients.
A) none of the above
B) left; commisurotomy
C) right; commisurotomy
D) left; epileptic
E) right; epileptic
  • 36. Which of the following language functions have equal contributions from both the right and the left hemispheres?
A) gestures
B) relations
C) melody
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) surface dyslexia.
B) deep dyslexia.
C) phonological dyslexia.
D) none of the above.
E) attentional dyslexia.
  • 38. Patients with this problem can read words perfectly fine. It's the nonwords that they have real trouble with.
A) letter by letter reading
B) deep dyslexia
C) attentional dyslexia
D) phonological dyslexia
E) neglect
  • 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) deep dyslexia
D) phonological dyslexia
E) letter by letter reading
  • 40. In this type of dyslexia, the key symptoms are semantic errors.
A) phonological dyslexia
B) attentional dyslexia
C) surface dyslexia
D) deep dyslexia
E) developmental dyslexia
  • 41. Which of the following is NOT true concerning dual route theory?
A) it is concerned with the anatomical organization of language
B) it depends on function-anatomy relations
C) it is an effective way to diagnose developmental and acquired dyslexia
D) it considers words, pictures, and sounds involved in reading
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) nonlexical 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) none of the above
C) able; can
D) able; can
E) unable; cannot
  • 44. A patient that misreads the word bird as butterfly has probably
A) processed for sound and not for sense.
B) none of the above
C) processed without sound and without 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) developmental dyslexia
B) acquired dyslexia
C) developmental alexia
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) posterior middle temporal gyrus
B) arcuate fasciculus
C) Broca's area
D) inferior prefrontal cortex
E) pulvinar nucleus
  • 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 and the right hemiheres
B) left hemisphere
C) right hemisphere
  • 49. Which of the following is NOT true in regard to the lexical route of reading?
A) can be related to orthographic representations of a word
B) fails to process unfamiliar words
C) can be related to phonological representations of a word
D) can process irregular words
E) can process nonwords
  • 50. What type of words are problematic when using the nonlexical route?
A) regular words
B) nonwords
C) irregular words
D) all of the above
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