Deck 28: Extension: C - Neuropsychological Assessment

Question 1

Household income predicts _____.

A) IQ scores
B) achievement scores
C) both IQ scores and achievement scores
D) neither IQ scores nor achievement scores

Answer 1

both IQ scores and achievement scores

Question 2

During the Wisconsin Card - Sorting Test, Stroop Test, and Chicago Word - Fluency Test, imaging has shown that subjects demonstrate activation in the _____.

A) amygdala
B) frontal lobe
C) temporal lobe
D) hippocampus

Answer 2

frontal lobe

Question 3

The CANTAB is a _____ neuropsychological test battery.

A) composite
B) nonstandardized
C) computerized
D) standardized

Answer 3

computerized

Question 4

Which is a factor that neuropsychologists must remain aware of when conducting neuropsychological assessments, given their impact on test performance?

A) effects of gender
B) genetic contributions
C) substance abuse issues
D) variability of inter-subject cerebral organization

Question 5

The FSIQ has a mean of _____ and a standard deviation of _____.

A) 100; 5
B) 110; 15
C) 100; 20
D) 100; 15

Question 6

The Wechsler scales are used to assess _____.

A) motor performance
B) intelligence
C) epilepsy
D) presence of tumors

Question 7

The authors suggest that the biggest change in neuropsychology since the 1980s has been the development of _____.

A) better psychiatric drugs
B) functional imaging
C) better paper-and-pencil tests
D) increased treatment of those suffering from psychological disorders.

Question 8

Warrington and her colleagues found that lesions of the _____ hemisphere depress verbal IQs.

A) left
B) right

Question 9

Identify the methodology MOST commonly used to evaluate a patient for epilepsy.

A) MRI
B) EEG
C) CT
D) CANTAB

Question 10

The emergence of _____ in the 1990s produced a dramatic change in the theoretical understanding of brain and cognition.

A) better cut-off scores
B) more sophisticated test batteries
C) cognitive neuroscience
D) problem-solving tests

Question 11

Cernich and colleagues developed a new battery of test designed for _____ in regards to concussions in sports.

A) surveillance and management
B) diagnosis and rehabilitation
C) identifying hemispheric asymmetries
D) evaluation of diffuse versus focal injury

Question 12

Which is NOT part of the Boston Process Approach?

A) the Wisconsin Card-Sorting Test
B) the Consonant trigrams test
C) the Proteus Maze Test
D) the Luria-Nebraska Battery

Question 13

The MOST sensitive measure of malingering is the _____.

A) Forced Choice Digit Memory Test
B) Wechsler Memory Scale III
C) Stroop Test
D) Wisconsin Card-Sorting Test

Question 14

Which of the following tests is BEST suited to evaluate a patient for right - hemisphere dysfunction?

A) Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
B) consonant trigrams test
C) Rey Complex-Figure Test
D) a test of verbal fluency
Answer Key

Question 15

Which is NOT a composite - type test?

A) Benton's neuropsychological investigation
B) Oxford neuropsychological procedures
C) Western Ontario procedures
D) the Luria-Nebraska Battery