Sentence Repetition Flashcards

Compared to healthy older adults, how do patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) typically perform on MoCA sentence repetition?

Answer: They show significantly more errors and omissions

MCI patients frequently make errors on sentence repetition, making it a sensitive marker of early cognitive decline.

Which of the following is NOT a valid reason for a patient to score 0 on MoCA sentence repetition?

Answer: Mild anxiety during testing

Mild anxiety alone rarely prevents verbatim sentence repetition in cognitively intact individuals.

On the MoCA, sentence repetition appears in the same section as which other language task?

Answer: Verbal fluency (letter F)

Sentence repetition and the verbal fluency task (words beginning with F) are both in the MoCA's Language section.

A researcher wants to use MoCA sentence repetition as an outcome measure in a clinical trial. What property makes it suitable?

Answer: It has established normative data and known sensitivity to cognitive decline

Established norms and sensitivity to cognitive decline make sentence repetition a valid clinical trial outcome measure.

Which error type on MoCA sentence repetition is most commonly seen in patients with conduction aphasia?

Answer: Phonemic paraphasias (substituting similar-sounding words)

Conduction aphasia characteristically produces phonemic paraphasias during repetition tasks.

After completing sentence repetition, the MoCA later tests delayed recall. How does this sequence benefit the assessment?

Answer: It ensures sentence repetition does not contaminate the word list recall

The MoCA's structure separates different memory stimuli so that sentence repetition does not interfere with the word list used in delayed recall.

An examiner reads the second MoCA sentence but the patient says nothing. After 5 seconds, what should the examiner do?

Answer: Mark 0 for that sentence and move on

Standard MoCA protocol scores silence as a failure; re-reading or cueing is not permitted.