Stroke Competency Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
What are the two types of stroke? -
correct answer ✅Ischemic versus hemorrhagic
What is ischemic stroke -
correct answer ✅It is caused by a blockage or clot
What are the types of ischemic stroke? -
correct answer ✅Embolic: traveling blood clot
Thrombotic: growing in an artery
Atherosclerosis: fatty build up
What is hemorrhagic stroke? -
correct answer ✅Bleed in the brain d/t burst blood vessel
What are examples of hemorrhagic stroke? -
correct answer ✅aneurysm, SAH, ICH, arteriovenous malformation
What is the frontal lobe responsible for? -
correct answer ✅planning
organization
selective attention
,Stroke Competency Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
problem solving
personality
higher cognitive skills function
What happens when the frontal lobe is injured? -
correct answer ✅decreased sequencing, planning/completion,
perseveration, decreased attention/focus/concentration, easily
distracted
What is the parietal lobe responsible for? -
correct answer ✅Goal directed voluntary movement
R side: visual spatial relationships
L side: ability to understand spoken/written language
What lobe is the primary sensory cortex located? -
correct answer ✅Parietal lobe
What is the primary sensory cortex responsible for? -
correct answer ✅sensation (touch and pressure)
, Stroke Competency Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
What are the results of injury to the parietal lobe? -
correct answer ✅decreased naming of objects
agraphia
decreased attention to more than one object
decreased visual attention
decreased hand eye coordination
decreased R and L orientation
decreased visual attention
apraxia (motor planning)
What is the temporal lobe responsible for? -
correct answer ✅Intellect, sorting of information, STM
R side: visual memory (faces and pictures)
L side: verbal memory (words/names)
What is the result of injury to the temporal lobe? -
correct answer ✅Decreased memory/faces, verbalizations of
objection, concentration, persistent talking, aggressive behavior,
decreased location of objects in environment
Questions and Answers 2026
What are the two types of stroke? -
correct answer ✅Ischemic versus hemorrhagic
What is ischemic stroke -
correct answer ✅It is caused by a blockage or clot
What are the types of ischemic stroke? -
correct answer ✅Embolic: traveling blood clot
Thrombotic: growing in an artery
Atherosclerosis: fatty build up
What is hemorrhagic stroke? -
correct answer ✅Bleed in the brain d/t burst blood vessel
What are examples of hemorrhagic stroke? -
correct answer ✅aneurysm, SAH, ICH, arteriovenous malformation
What is the frontal lobe responsible for? -
correct answer ✅planning
organization
selective attention
,Stroke Competency Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
problem solving
personality
higher cognitive skills function
What happens when the frontal lobe is injured? -
correct answer ✅decreased sequencing, planning/completion,
perseveration, decreased attention/focus/concentration, easily
distracted
What is the parietal lobe responsible for? -
correct answer ✅Goal directed voluntary movement
R side: visual spatial relationships
L side: ability to understand spoken/written language
What lobe is the primary sensory cortex located? -
correct answer ✅Parietal lobe
What is the primary sensory cortex responsible for? -
correct answer ✅sensation (touch and pressure)
, Stroke Competency Exam Actual
Questions and Answers 2026
What are the results of injury to the parietal lobe? -
correct answer ✅decreased naming of objects
agraphia
decreased attention to more than one object
decreased visual attention
decreased hand eye coordination
decreased R and L orientation
decreased visual attention
apraxia (motor planning)
What is the temporal lobe responsible for? -
correct answer ✅Intellect, sorting of information, STM
R side: visual memory (faces and pictures)
L side: verbal memory (words/names)
What is the result of injury to the temporal lobe? -
correct answer ✅Decreased memory/faces, verbalizations of
objection, concentration, persistent talking, aggressive behavior,
decreased location of objects in environment
