Question 1

After receiving damage to her temporal lobe, Pilar believes that her husband and her son have been replaced with imposters. Her doctor surmises that she has a disconnect between brain areas that recognize faces and those that give a sense of familiarity. Her false beliefs are known as ____. ​

Accepted Answer

Pilar's false belief that her husband and son have been replaced with imposters is a symptom of Capgras syndrome, which is characterized by a disconnect between the brain areas that recognize faces and the brain areas that give a sense of familiarity. Korsakoff's syndrome is a type of amnesia most commonly associated with alcoholism, Wada's hemiparesis is a temporary paralysis that may result from a medical procedure involving the injection of a drug into the carotid artery, and Broca's aphasia is a language disorder caused by damage to the Broca's area of the brain.

Question 2

The local theater company is producing a stage play of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat . It is the story of a man who could not recognize his wife's face and therefore believed that her head was his hat. The director wanted to be sure that she was accurately portraying the man's struggle with ____. ​

Accepted Answer

The man in the story is struggling with prosopagnosia, which is a neurological disorder that affects the ability to recognize faces. This is specifically mentioned in the description of the play. The other answer choices (B, C, and D) are not related to the man's struggle with recognizing faces, so they are not accurate choices.

Question 3

George becomes frustrated with his date because she always wants to sit on his left side. When he tries to sit on her left side, he thinks she is ignoring him. Later, she explains that she cannot pay attention to voices coming from the left side of the room because she has ____.

Accepted Answer

Hemineglect is a disorder where a person ignores or neglects stimuli from one side of the body or the environment. In this case, the woman is experiencing auditory hemineglect, meaning she is unable to pay attention to sounds coming from the left side of the room.

Question 4

The stimulus study by Bisiach was able to demonstrate that in patients with hemineglect ____.

Accepted Answer

The study by Bisiach demonstrated that the deficits in hemineglect cannot be explained as being due to sensory losses, as the patients were able to perceive stimuli on both sides of their body but only attended to one side. The other options are not supported by the study.

Question 5

Disorders that affect a person's ability to read, write, speak, or understand language are known as ____.

Accepted Answer

Disorders that affect a person's ability to read, write, speak, or understand language are known as aphasias. Anomias refer specifically to difficulty with word-finding, apraxia refers to difficulty with motor planning and executing movements (including speech), and aprosodia refers to difficulty with prosody (intonation, stress, and rhythm) in speech.

Question 6

Dr. Genis is working with a hemineglect patient, Nathan. During the assessment, Dr. Genis wiggles her finger on the left, right, and then both sides of Nathan's field of vision. If Nathan is like the majority of hemineglect patients, this test will show that ____. ​

Accepted Answer

Hemineglect patients typically have an intact ability to perceive both sides of space, but they ignore information from one side due to damage to the parietal lobe. The finger wiggling test is used to assess this neglect, and it typically shows that the patient is capable of perceiving both sides of space but tends to ignore one side. Option B is incorrect as the "what" system is related to object recognition and not spatial neglect. Option C is partially correct as hemineglect is caused by damage to the parietal lobes, but it is not necessarily limited to the upper part. Option D is incorrect as hemineglect patients usually have intact visual fields, but they ignore information from one side.

Question 7

Anette puts makeup on the right side but not the left side of her face. The most likely explanation is that she has ____.

Accepted Answer

Hemineglect is a condition where a person is not aware of one side of their body, often as a result of damage to the parietal lobe of the brain. In this case, it would be the left side, which is why she only puts makeup on the right side. Agnosia refers to difficulty recognizing and identifying objects or people, while prosopagnosia specifically refers to difficulty recognizing faces. Paralysis refers to the inability to move muscles in the body.

Question 8

Jenny walked into the room, and her husband said, "Who are you?" She was stunned. "Don't you know me?" she asked. "Ahh, that's my wife's voice, but are you her?" he answered. You can conclude that Jenny's husband has ____. ​

Accepted Answer

Jenny's husband recognizes her voice but cannot recognize her face, indicating he likely has prosopagnosia, a condition characterized by the inability to recognize faces.

Question 9

Zayrina often gets frustrated when she speaks. Her words are halting, and she has trouble speaking about abstract ideas such as love or justice. Based on this, you can conclude that Zayrina has sustained damage to her ____.

Accepted Answer

The left frontal lobe is responsible for language production and comprehension, so damage to this area can result in difficulty with speaking and processing abstract concepts.

Question 10

Marcie has frontotemporal degeneration. If the disease is killing her brain's language-related regions, she will likely experience a condition known as ____.

Accepted Answer

Primary progressive aphasia is a condition that results from damage to the brain's language regions, specifically in the left hemisphere. It is a type of dementia that affects language and communication abilities, but does not initially impact other cognitive functions like memory or reasoning. Frontotemporal degeneration is a common cause of primary progressive aphasia.

Question 11

At a bookstore, Dusty asks the sales associate for recommendations on books that deal with disorders in language comprehension and speech production. What book should the sales associate recommend? ​

Accepted Answer

"Understanding Aphasias" is the only book among the options that specifically deals with disorders in language comprehension and speech production. Hemineglect, Anosognosia, and Apraxia are all related to neurological conditions but are not directly related to language disorders.

Question 12

Samantha is reading a story about a child who cannot understand the location of objects in space and how they relate to one another. Thinking back to her psychology class, Samantha speculates that the boy must have damage to the neural pathways of his ____ system.

Accepted Answer

The boy's difficulty in understanding the location of objects in space and how they relate to one another suggests damage to his spatial system, which is responsible for processing visual-spatial information, such as the location and orientation of objects in relation to each other. Choice A, "what," relates to the identification of objects, not their location in space. Choice B, "when," relates to the timing of events. Choice D, "how," relates to the process of doing something.

Question 13

As an intern in a hospital, you listen to a conversation between a physician and neuropsychologist discussing the perceptual problems of their patient, Angel. At one point, the physician says, "It's as if he can see the trees but not recognize the forest." From your training, you suspect Angel is experiencing ____.

Accepted Answer

Simultanagnosia is a condition in which an individual has difficulty perceiving a whole scene or picture, instead focusing only on individual parts. The physician's comment about Angel being able to see the trees but not the forest suggests a problem with overall scene perception, which is characteristic of simultaneous visual agnosia. Delirium is a state of acute confusion and typically includes deficits in attention, memory, and perception, but does not specifically involve problems with visual processing. Hemineglect is a condition in which an individual ignores or neglects one hemisphere of space in their environment, and expressive aprosodia is a condition in which a person has difficulty conveying or interpreting emotional tone in speech.

Question 14

Anna's ability to communicate has become impaired after a stroke. With this information only, you can conclude that she ____.

Accepted Answer

The impairment of communication can manifest in various ways, including aphasia (difficulty with language) and aprosodia (difficulty with intonation and emotion in speech). Therefore, Anna could have either of these conditions or both. It is not possible to conclude that she has neither aphasia nor aprosodia without further information.

Question 15

During halftime of a University of Illinois football game, the marching band members stand next to each other to form the shape of a large letter "I." Bob looks on and says, "All I see is a bunch of individual people standing together." In other words, he cannot see how they collectively form a single large letter. Most likely, Bob has ____.

Accepted Answer

Bob's inability to perceive the collective shape formed by the marching band members suggests he is experiencing simultaneous agnosia, which is a difficulty perceiving multiple objects as a unified whole.

Question 16

Bisiach's test on hemineglect did provide support for a true deficit in attending to certain visual stimuli. However, one limitation noted in the textbook is that ____.

Accepted Answer

Bisiach's test only used visual stimuli, limiting its applicability to neglect in other modalities such as auditory or tactile stimuli. The other options are not cited as limitations in the textbook.

Question 17

"Fire good," says Frank, when attempting to say "The fire is good." He called a table a "shamble." Most likely, Frank has ____. ​

Accepted Answer

Frank's difficulties with syntax and substituting "shamble" for "table" suggest he has Broca's aphasia, which is characterized by difficulties with speech production and formulating coherent sentences. Wernicke's aphasia is characterized by difficulties with understanding language and producing meaningful language, which is not consistent with Frank's symptoms. Alexia without agraphia is a reading disorder without a writing disorder, which is not consistent with Frank's symptoms. Anosognosia is a lack of awareness or insight into one's own condition or deficits, which is not directly relevant to Frank's language difficulties.

Question 18

When a thief runs away with Marvianna's purse, she wants to help the police catch him. Because she has prosopagnosia, what is she least likely to say?

Accepted Answer

People with prosopagnosia have difficulty recognizing faces, so Marvianna is least likely to identify the thief in a photograph. The other options do not involve facial recognition.

Question 19

Fritzie was having problems talking. Gradually but progressively over the past year, it became harder and harder for her to get her words out. Her memory remained quite good, though, despite her language impairment. Most likely, Fritzie has ____.

Accepted Answer

Fritzie's symptoms match those of frontotemporal degeneration (FTD), a type of dementia that affects language and behavior. Alzheimer's disease typically shows memory impairment earlier on, while mild cognitive impairment is usually marked by memory issues as well. A cerebrovascular accident, or stroke, can also affect language but Fritzie's symptoms have been gradually progressing over a year rather than occurring suddenly.

Question 20

Jack notices that Jill is behaving differently. She seems to ignore him when he is standing on her left side, and she only washes the right side of her face at night before bed. Jack, a psychologist, begins to wonder if she has ____, which would make sense because she recently experienced a(n)____. ​

Accepted Answer

Jill's behavior suggests that she may be experiencing hemineglect, which is a condition commonly associated with cerebrovascular accidents or strokes. Hemineglect is characterized by ignoring one side of the body or space and can affect both visual and tactile perception. It is possible that Jill's recent experience was a stroke or another type of cerebrovascular accident. The other options do not fit the description of Jill's behavior or recent experience.

Quiz 18: Neuropsychology

After receiving damage to her temporal lobe, Pilar believes that her husband and her son have been replaced with imposters. Her doctor surmises that she has a disconnect between brain areas that recognize faces and those that give a sense of familiarity. Her false beliefs are known as ____.

George becomes frustrated with his date because she always wants to sit on his left side. When he tries to sit on her left side, he thinks she is ignoring him. Later, she explains that she cannot pay attention to voices coming from the left side of the room because she has ____.

The stimulus study by Bisiach was able to demonstrate that in patients with hemineglect ____.

Disorders that affect a person's ability to read, write, speak, or understand language are known as ____.

Dr. Genis is working with a hemineglect patient, Nathan. During the assessment, Dr. Genis wiggles her finger on the left, right, and then both sides of Nathan's field of vision. If Nathan is like the majority of hemineglect patients, this test will show that ____.

Anette puts makeup on the right side but not the left side of her face. The most likely explanation is that she has ____.

Jenny walked into the room, and her husband said, "Who are you?" She was stunned. "Don't you know me?" she asked. "Ahh, that's my wife's voice, but are you her?" he answered. You can conclude that Jenny's husband has ____.

Zayrina often gets frustrated when she speaks. Her words are halting, and she has trouble speaking about abstract ideas such as love or justice. Based on this, you can conclude that Zayrina has sustained damage to her ____.

Marcie has frontotemporal degeneration. If the disease is killing her brain's language-related regions, she will likely experience a condition known as ____.

At a bookstore, Dusty asks the sales associate for recommendations on books that deal with disorders in language comprehension and speech production. What book should the sales associate recommend?

Samantha is reading a story about a child who cannot understand the location of objects in space and how they relate to one another. Thinking back to her psychology class, Samantha speculates that the boy must have damage to the neural pathways of his ____ system.

Anna's ability to communicate has become impaired after a stroke. With this information only, you can conclude that she ____.

Bisiach's test on hemineglect did provide support for a true deficit in attending to certain visual stimuli. However, one limitation noted in the textbook is that ____.

"Fire good," says Frank, when attempting to say "The fire is good." He called a table a "shamble." Most likely, Frank has ____.

When a thief runs away with Marvianna's purse, she wants to help the police catch him. Because she has prosopagnosia, what is she least likely to say?

Fritzie was having problems talking. Gradually but progressively over the past year, it became harder and harder for her to get her words out. Her memory remained quite good, though, despite her language impairment. Most likely, Fritzie has ____.

Jack notices that Jill is behaving differently. She seems to ignore him when he is standing on her left side, and she only washes the right side of her face at night before bed. Jack, a psychologist, begins to wonder if she has , which would make sense because she recently experienced a(n) .

Quiz 18: Neuropsychology

After receiving damage to her temporal lobe, Pilar believes that her husband and her son have been replaced with imposters. Her doctor surmises that she has a disconnect between brain areas that recognize faces and those that give a sense of familiarity. Her false beliefs are known as ____. ​

George becomes frustrated with his date because she always wants to sit on his left side. When he tries to sit on her left side, he thinks she is ignoring him. Later, she explains that she cannot pay attention to voices coming from the left side of the room because she has ____.

The stimulus study by Bisiach was able to demonstrate that in patients with hemineglect ____.

Disorders that affect a person's ability to read, write, speak, or understand language are known as ____.

Dr. Genis is working with a hemineglect patient, Nathan. During the assessment, Dr. Genis wiggles her finger on the left, right, and then both sides of Nathan's field of vision. If Nathan is like the majority of hemineglect patients, this test will show that ____. ​

Anette puts makeup on the right side but not the left side of her face. The most likely explanation is that she has ____.

Jenny walked into the room, and her husband said, "Who are you?" She was stunned. "Don't you know me?" she asked. "Ahh, that's my wife's voice, but are you her?" he answered. You can conclude that Jenny's husband has ____. ​

Zayrina often gets frustrated when she speaks. Her words are halting, and she has trouble speaking about abstract ideas such as love or justice. Based on this, you can conclude that Zayrina has sustained damage to her ____.

Marcie has frontotemporal degeneration. If the disease is killing her brain's language-related regions, she will likely experience a condition known as ____.

At a bookstore, Dusty asks the sales associate for recommendations on books that deal with disorders in language comprehension and speech production. What book should the sales associate recommend? ​

Samantha is reading a story about a child who cannot understand the location of objects in space and how they relate to one another. Thinking back to her psychology class, Samantha speculates that the boy must have damage to the neural pathways of his ____ system.

Anna's ability to communicate has become impaired after a stroke. With this information only, you can conclude that she ____.

Bisiach's test on hemineglect did provide support for a true deficit in attending to certain visual stimuli. However, one limitation noted in the textbook is that ____.

"Fire good," says Frank, when attempting to say "The fire is good." He called a table a "shamble." Most likely, Frank has ____. ​

When a thief runs away with Marvianna's purse, she wants to help the police catch him. Because she has prosopagnosia, what is she least likely to say?

Fritzie was having problems talking. Gradually but progressively over the past year, it became harder and harder for her to get her words out. Her memory remained quite good, though, despite her language impairment. Most likely, Fritzie has ____.

After receiving damage to her temporal lobe, Pilar believes that her husband and her son have been replaced with imposters. Her doctor surmises that she has a disconnect between brain areas that recognize faces and those that give a sense of familiarity. Her false beliefs are known as ____.

Dr. Genis is working with a hemineglect patient, Nathan. During the assessment, Dr. Genis wiggles her finger on the left, right, and then both sides of Nathan's field of vision. If Nathan is like the majority of hemineglect patients, this test will show that ____.

Jenny walked into the room, and her husband said, "Who are you?" She was stunned. "Don't you know me?" she asked. "Ahh, that's my wife's voice, but are you her?" he answered. You can conclude that Jenny's husband has ____.

At a bookstore, Dusty asks the sales associate for recommendations on books that deal with disorders in language comprehension and speech production. What book should the sales associate recommend?

"Fire good," says Frank, when attempting to say "The fire is good." He called a table a "shamble." Most likely, Frank has ____.