Visual-Cognitive Functions Quiz

What is a common characteristic of a child with poor sustained attention?

• Low energy level

• High activity level

• Good memory recall

• Excellent focus

What is a sign of underattentiveness in a child's visual-cognitive functions?

• Continual visual searching behaviors

• High activity level

• Easily distracted by visual stimuli

• Difficulty orienting to visual stimuli

What is the result of an impaired child's inability to select features that differentiate objects in a visual array?

• Excellent focus

• Inability to recognize or isolate salient features

• Good memory recall

• High activity level

What is a characteristic of poor visual sequential memory?

• Difficulty recalling spatial location of a previously seen stimulus

• Difficulty recalling exact sequence of letters, numbers, symbols, or objects

• Impaired ability to recognize, match, and categorize

• Difficulty recognizing form in a complex field

What is a common sign of poor visual discrimination in a child?

• Difficulty recognizing forms and objects when presented in different sizes or orientations

• Difficulty planning actions in relation to objects around them

• Difficulty with steps and curbs

• Unable to determine visually when surface plan has changed

What is a characteristic of poor visual closure?

• Difficulty reading a sign if the letters were partly occluded by tree branches

• Unable to identify a form or object if an incomplete presentation is made

• May have difficulty sorting and organizing personal belongings

• Not being able to pick out a specific toy from a shelf

What is a common sign of poor figure-ground problems in a child?

• Unable to determine visually when surface plan has changed

• May not have good visual search strategies

• May have difficulty attending to a word on a printed page because they cannot block out other words around it

• Difficulty discriminating among objects because of their placement in space

What is a characteristic of poor topographic orientation?

• Writing and spacing letters and words on paper

• Difficulty understanding directional language

• May be easily lost and unable to find his or her way from one location to the next

• Confusion regarding sequence of letters or numbers in a word or math problem

What is a common sign of poor depth perception in a child?

• Difficulty with steps and curbs

• Problem with sorting and organizing personal belongings

• Unable to determine visually when surface plan has changed

• Difficulty copying from blackboard

What is a characteristic of poor visual discrimination in relation to object form constancy?

• Not being able to pick out a specific toy from a shelf

• May have difficulty sorting and organizing personal belongings

• Difficulty recognizing forms and objects when presented in different sizes or orientations

• Unable to identify a form or object if an incomplete presentation is made