Impaired language comprehension following a stroke would most probably be diagnosed as ________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. An elderly acquaintance of you has suffered from partial blindness since she had a stroke. Apparently the stroke damaged her:

   A. occipital lobe
   B. parietal lobe
   C. temporal lobes
   D. reticular formation

2. Language comprehension is associated with _______________ area of the brain?

   A. Broca’s
   B. Gage’s
   C. Forester’s
   D. Wernicke’s

3. An impaired use of language is known as:

   A. plasticity
   B. lateralization
   C. tomography
   D. aphasia

4. Which TWO of the following statements are true of parsing?
   1.Psycholinguistics has been especially concerned with how people parse sentences- that is, how they break them down into their correct phonological structures.
   2.Parsing has to be done because otherwise, it would be impossible to interpret a sentence to all.
   3.The difficulty in understanding some sentences can be ascribed to an initial misinterpretation ; this is called a ‘country walk’.
   4.Misparsing a sentence can result in failure in comprehension at all levels.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 1 & 3
   C. 2 & 4
   D. 3 & 4

5. Which is most likely to occur in a patient diagnosed with demyelinating disease in which myelin degenerates from around the bodies of axons?

   A. rerouting of nerve impulses
   B. slower never conduction times
   C. cortical brain lesions
   D. faster never conduction times

6. At what point would one be usually diagnosed with a panic disorder?

   A. After one panic attack
   B. When one gets scared in a new situation
   C. When it scares you
   D. After numerous disabling panic attacks

7. Which out of the five most common anxiety disorders, is the most frequently diagnosed?

   A. social phobia
   B. obsessive compulsive disorder
   C. panic disorder
   D. generalized anxiety disorder

8. Antisocial personality disorder is diagnosed:

   A. More frequently in males than in females
   B. Relatively evenly in both males and females
   C. More frequently in females than in males
   D. Mostly in teenagers

9. What axis of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (IV – TR) this disorder diagnosed on?

   A. Axis I
   B. Axis II
   C. Axis III
   D. Axis IV

10. Which out of the five most common anxiety disorders, is the most frequently diagnosed?

    A. social phobia
    B. obsessive compulsive disorder
    C. panic disorder
    D. generalized anxiety disorder