NBCOT Exam 2023 (A+)
In infant development which comes first:
bilaterality or unilaterality? - ANS-__________ precedes unilaterality in
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development
When does hand dominance begin to develop? - 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? - 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? - 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? - ANS-Lack of awareness of one's body parts.
What is anosognosia? - ANS-Anosognosia: Transient severe form of neglect.
Patient does not recognize the presence or severity
of his paralysis.
What is prosopagnosia? - ANS-Face blindness. Inability to identify an individual
by their face.
What is visual-spacial agnosia? - ANS-Affects perception of spatial relationship between
objects or between objects and self.
What is auditory agnosia? - ANS-Inability to recognize sounds words and
non-words.
What is visual agnosia? - ANS-Lack of ability to recognize common objects and
demonstrate their use in an activity.
What is apraxia? - 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? - 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? - 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)
What is constructional apraxia? - ANS-Unable to produce designs in 2 or three
dimensions by copying drawing or constructing.
What is oral apraxia? - ANS-Difficulty in forming and organizing intelligable
words though the musculature required to do so is
in tact. Differs from disarthria because no muscles
are affected and speech is not slurred.
What is a neuroma? - [Show Less]