NBCOT/COTA - Exam Questions-bank; 2022
In infant development, which comes first: bilaterality or unilaterality?
{{Correct Ans- precedes unilaterality
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When does hand dominance begin to develop?
{{Correct Ans- Hand dominance begins to develop at 3 to 6 years, and is not fully defined until 6 years
Can someone with receptive aphasia participate in sensory testing?
{{Correct Ans- Individuals with this disorder cannot comprehend spoken or written words or symbols. Individuals cannot understand verbal directions or respond to sensory stimuli.
What is agnosia?
{{Correct Ans- Agnosia is a category of defecits where the patient lacks recognition of familiar object as perceived by the senses. This could involve all the senses and manifests with problems in body scheme, such as somatognosia and anosognosia.
What is somatognosia?
{{Correct Ans- Lack of awareness of one's body parts.
What is anosognosia?
{{Correct Ans- Anosognosia: Transient, severe form of neglect. Patient does not recognize the presence or severity of his paralysis.
What is prosopagnosia?
{{Correct Ans- Face blindness. Inability to identify an individual by their face.
What is visual-spacial agnosia?
{{Correct Ans- Affects perception of spatial relationship between objects, or between objects and self.
What is auditory agnosia?
{{Correct Ans- Inability to recognize sounds, words and non-words.
What is visual agnosia?
{{Correct Ans- Lack of ability to recognize common objects and demonstrate their use in an activity.
What is apraxia?
{{Correct Ans- Loss of the ability to execute or carry out learned (familiar) movements, despite having the desire and the physical ability to perform the movements
What is ideomotor apraxia?
{{Correct Ans- Inability to imitate gestures or perform a purposeful motor task on command, even though the patient is able to fully understand the idea or concept of a task. This is often associated with left hemisphere damage.
What is ideational apraxia?
{{Correct Ans- The disability of carrying out complex sequential motor acts. Caused by a disruption of the conception, rather than execution. (Loss of tool function knowledge) [Show Less]