Quiz 3

Question 1

What type of dementia is associated with abnormal deposits of proteins in the brain?

Answer 1

Lewy Body Dementia

Question 2

The new and improved version of taxonomy consists of two frameworks. What are the four components that fall under the executive control of attention?

Answer 2

Working memory, selective attention, suppression, alternating attention.

Question 3

A closed head injury results in more diffuse damage, while an open head injury results in more focal damage.

Answer 3

True.

Question 4

Which is NOT a characteristic of automatic processing in regards to attention?

Answer 4

Under voluntary control

Question 5

Which attentional model states that tasks are done serially and our executive functioning skills are quickly shifting our attention between tasks?

Answer 5

Central Bottleneck Model

Question 6

Put the following components of the information processing memory model in the correct order:

Answer 6

encoding, consolidation, storage, retrieval

Question 7

An SLPs caseload consists of more closed head injury patients than open head injury patients

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Tertiary blast injuries result from:

Answer 8

your body being thrown from force

Question 9

What are the primary effects of a TBI?

Answer 9

Diffuse Axonal Injury, Focal Contusions, Coup/Contrecoup

Question 10

The type of blast injury that results from burns and/or chemical exposure is:

Answer 10

quaternary injury

Question 11

Mild Traumatic Brain disorder is also known as postconcussive disorder?

Answer 11

True

Question 12

One primary effect of a TBI is edema

Answer 12

False

Question 13

SLPs will most likely work with patients with reversible dementia because it can be treated with cognitive therapy

Answer 13

false-there is an underlying cause that needs to be cured (change in medication)

Question 14

Which of the following does not often co-occur with military TBI to characterize the mTBI polytrauma?

Answer 14

Depression

Question 15

Primary TBI blast-related injuries impact which parts of the body?

Answer 15

Air-filled organs and fluid-filled cavities

Question 16

Mild cognitive impairment looks like

Answer 16

A. alzheimers disease

b. normal aging
c. aphasia
d. none of the above**

Question 17

Blast fragments flying through the air causes what type of injury?

Answer 17

secondary

Question 18

The foundation of cognition skills is?

Answer 18

attention

Question 19

Lewy Body dementia is the most common type of reversible dementia

Answer 19

false

Question 20

Delirium is NOT

Answer 20

1. often referred to as Altered Mental Status
2. *A gradual change in cognition with a slow onset
3. confused for dementia
4. usually the result of medica condition, such as a UTI

Question 21

Which type of amnesia results in difficulty remembering new information after onset?

Answer 21

anterograde amnesia

Question 22

Delirium occurs from a sudden onset of disturbed cognition, which fluctuates throughout the day, and is often the result of a medical condition such as UTI

Answer 22

TRUE

Question 23

The prognosis for vascular dementia is worse than Alzheimer disease

Answer 23

TRUE

Question 24

An injury to the brain as it rattles back affecting the opposite side of impact is known as…

Answer 24

contrecoup

Question 25

According to the article from Business Insider titled “The doctor who inspired ‘Concussion’ says there’s no equipment that prevents them”, repeated concussions result in a pathological buildup of a protein called tau which strangles healthy cells.

Answer 25

TRUE

Question 26

Delirium is sometimes referred to as…

Answer 26

Altered mental status (AMS)

Question 27

Semantic memory is more vulnerable after trauma than episodic memory

Answer 27

FALSE: episodic memory is personal, autobiographical recollections of experiences. It is the most vulnerable because you can’t recreate the exposure.