Language

Multiple Choice

Difficulty finding words or naming an object.

• anomia

• apraxia

• dysarthria

• conduction aphasia

Multiple Choice

The speech pattern with Broca's aphasia is often telegraphic,

• containing only content words and leaving out function words

• comes in uneven bursts

• is very effortful

• all of the above or beside

Multiple Choice

A patient's symptoms include poor spoken and written comprehension but fluent and reasonably grammatical speech output. What is the most probable diagnosis?

• conduction aphasia

• Broca's aphasia

• Wernicke's aphasia

• acquired alexia

Multiple Choice

A person with conduction aphasia is most likely to have difficulty in

• speaking fluently

• understanding function words like "if" or "but"

• comprehending spoken language

• repeating spoken language

Multiple Choice

Apraxia is impairment of motor planning and programming of speech articulation due to right hemisphere (RH) damage.

• True

• Falso

Multiple Choice

Aphasia is deficits in

• language productions and speech comprehension

• language production and comprehension

• language comprehension only language comprehension

• understanding written and spoken speech

Multiple Choice

Difficulty controling the muscles used in speech (around the mouth, tongue) is which one of these conditions?

• dysarthria

• apraxia

• ataxia

• anomia

Poll

Which two questions are on the Final Exam?

• A person with conduction aphasia is most likely to have difficulty in...

• A patient's symptoms include poor spoken and writen comprehension but fluence and reasonably grammatical speech output. What is the most probable diagnosis?

• A normal adult speaker has passive knowledge of about 50,000 words

• Which brain structure is located in the medial temporal lobe and is of particular importance in the formation of new long-term memories?