CCC Adult Language and Cognitive Disorders 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Broca's aphasia is characterized by which pattern of language deficits?
- Fluent speech with comprehension deficits
- Non-fluent speech with relatively preserved comprehension (Correct answer)
- Non-fluent speech with severely impaired comprehension
- Fluent paraphasic speech with poor repetition
Correct answer: Non-fluent speech with relatively preserved comprehension
Broca's aphasia is marked by effortful, non-fluent speech with relatively preserved auditory comprehension.
Question 2: Which aphasia type features fluent speech, impaired comprehension, and impaired repetition with paraphasias?
- Broca's aphasia
- Conduction aphasia
- Wernicke's aphasia (Correct answer)
- Transcortical motor aphasia
Correct answer: Wernicke's aphasia
Wernicke's aphasia is characterized by fluent, paraphasic speech with poor comprehension and poor repetition.
Question 3: Which aphasia syndrome is characterized by relatively preserved repetition with non-fluent output and poor comprehension?
- Transcortical sensory aphasia
- Mixed transcortical aphasia (Correct answer)
- Transcortical motor aphasia
- Global aphasia
Correct answer: Mixed transcortical aphasia
Mixed transcortical aphasia features poor fluency, poor comprehension, but preserved repetition, often due to watershed lesions.
Question 4: Anomia refers to difficulty with which language task?
- Sentence comprehension
- Reading aloud
- Word retrieval or naming (Correct answer)
- Repetition
Correct answer: Word retrieval or naming
Anomia is the inability or reduced ability to retrieve words, commonly manifested as difficulty naming objects or pictures.
Question 5: Which assessment tool is widely used to classify aphasia type based on fluency, comprehension, and repetition?
- Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) (Correct answer)
- Boston Naming Test (BNT)
- Token Test
- MMSE
Correct answer: Western Aphasia Battery (WAB)
The Western Aphasia Battery assesses fluency, comprehension, repetition, and naming to classify aphasia type and severity.
Question 6: Semantic paraphasias involve substituting a target word with a word that is:
- Phonologically similar
- Semantically related (Correct answer)
- A made-up word (neologism)
- A perseverative error
Correct answer: Semantically related
Semantic paraphasias are word substitutions based on meaning, such as saying 'chair' for 'table'.
CCC Adult Language and Cognitive Disorders 1
Broca's aphasia is characterized by which pattern of language deficits?