CCC Adult Language and Cognitive Disorders

Question 1

Broca's aphasia is characterized by which pattern of language deficits?

Accepted Answer

Non-fluent speech with relatively preserved comprehension

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Fluent speech with comprehension deficits

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Non-fluent speech with severely impaired comprehension

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Fluent paraphasic speech with poor repetition

Question 2

Which aphasia type features fluent speech, impaired comprehension, and impaired repetition with paraphasias?

Accepted Answer

Wernicke's aphasia

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Broca's aphasia

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Conduction aphasia

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Transcortical motor aphasia

Question 3

Which aphasia syndrome is characterized by relatively preserved repetition with non-fluent output and poor comprehension?

Accepted Answer

Mixed transcortical aphasia

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Transcortical sensory aphasia

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Transcortical motor aphasia

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Global aphasia

Question 4

Anomia refers to difficulty with which language task?

Accepted Answer

Word retrieval or naming

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Sentence comprehension

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Reading aloud

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Repetition

Question 5

Which assessment tool is widely used to classify aphasia type based on fluency, comprehension, and repetition?

Accepted Answer

Western Aphasia Battery (WAB)

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Boston Naming Test (BNT)

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Token Test

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MMSE

Question 6

Semantic paraphasias involve substituting a target word with a word that is:

Accepted Answer

Semantically related

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Phonologically similar

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A made-up word (neologism)

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A perseverative error