APHASIA PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | APHASIA EXAM STUDY GUIDE
2026/2027
The principle of "transference plasticity" with regard to experience-dependent plasticity means
which of the following: - ANS ✔✔Plasticity as a result of one training experience can improve
the acquisition of comparable behaviors
Select the correct statement:
A. It is not possible to have Broca's aphasia without a specific injury to Broca's area.
B. Injury to Broca's area is not essential to have Broca's aphasia.
C. Auditory comprehension is typically worse than speech production in Broca's aphasia.
D. Syntactic skills are severely impaired in anomic aphasia. - ANS ✔✔Injury to Broca's area is not
essential to have Broca's aphasia.
What is true about Broca's aphasia? - ANS ✔✔It is often, though not always, caused by damage
to Brodmann's areas 44 and 45.
The radiographic imaging procedure that allows X-ray beams to circle through segments of the
brain and pass through tissue while a camera takes pictures of sections of the structures being
scanned is known as - ANS ✔✔computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan.
A 70-year-old male has suffered a left cerebrovascular accident (CVA). His verbal output is
considered to be fluent; however, he exhibits phonemic and semantic paraphasias, neologisms,
empty speech, and lacks content words. He most likely presents with: - ANS ✔✔Wernicke's
aphasia
, A 68-year-old man experienced a stroke and had problems with reading; however, other
language related skills like auditory comprehension, naming, writing, or oral repetition were not
affected. This condition referred to as pure word blindness or alexia without agraphia is also
called: - ANS ✔✔Pure alexia
A 72-year-old client suffered a stroke and had issues with poor memory, short attention span,
rambling speech, impulsive behavior, left neglect, understanding jokes, and logically sequencing
tasks. Based on this information, the physician mentioned to the family that the patient
probably suffered: - ANS ✔✔Right hemisphere brain damage
All of the following can be used to screen for aphasia except:
A. Mississippi Aphasia Screening Test-II
B. Bedside Evaluation Screening Test-II
C. Frequency Aphasia Screening Test-II
D. Duration Aphasia Screening Test-II - ANS ✔✔Duration Aphasia Screening Test-II
A 48-year-old stroke patient was misreading words that were irregularly spelled (e.g.,
Wednesday) but had no problems with non-words that they had never encountered before
(e.g., Diggle). This patient probably presents with: - ANS ✔✔Surface alexia
Jaxon, a 78-year-old male, recently experienced a cerebrovascular accident leading to damage
of the border areas between the tissues that are supplied by the anterior, middle, and posterior
cerebral arteries. His speech is nonfluent, although his repetition of words and sentences is
preserved. All other aspects of Jaxon's language are severely impaired. Jaxon most likely
presents with: - ANS ✔✔Mixed transcortical aphasia
2026/2027
The principle of "transference plasticity" with regard to experience-dependent plasticity means
which of the following: - ANS ✔✔Plasticity as a result of one training experience can improve
the acquisition of comparable behaviors
Select the correct statement:
A. It is not possible to have Broca's aphasia without a specific injury to Broca's area.
B. Injury to Broca's area is not essential to have Broca's aphasia.
C. Auditory comprehension is typically worse than speech production in Broca's aphasia.
D. Syntactic skills are severely impaired in anomic aphasia. - ANS ✔✔Injury to Broca's area is not
essential to have Broca's aphasia.
What is true about Broca's aphasia? - ANS ✔✔It is often, though not always, caused by damage
to Brodmann's areas 44 and 45.
The radiographic imaging procedure that allows X-ray beams to circle through segments of the
brain and pass through tissue while a camera takes pictures of sections of the structures being
scanned is known as - ANS ✔✔computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan.
A 70-year-old male has suffered a left cerebrovascular accident (CVA). His verbal output is
considered to be fluent; however, he exhibits phonemic and semantic paraphasias, neologisms,
empty speech, and lacks content words. He most likely presents with: - ANS ✔✔Wernicke's
aphasia
, A 68-year-old man experienced a stroke and had problems with reading; however, other
language related skills like auditory comprehension, naming, writing, or oral repetition were not
affected. This condition referred to as pure word blindness or alexia without agraphia is also
called: - ANS ✔✔Pure alexia
A 72-year-old client suffered a stroke and had issues with poor memory, short attention span,
rambling speech, impulsive behavior, left neglect, understanding jokes, and logically sequencing
tasks. Based on this information, the physician mentioned to the family that the patient
probably suffered: - ANS ✔✔Right hemisphere brain damage
All of the following can be used to screen for aphasia except:
A. Mississippi Aphasia Screening Test-II
B. Bedside Evaluation Screening Test-II
C. Frequency Aphasia Screening Test-II
D. Duration Aphasia Screening Test-II - ANS ✔✔Duration Aphasia Screening Test-II
A 48-year-old stroke patient was misreading words that were irregularly spelled (e.g.,
Wednesday) but had no problems with non-words that they had never encountered before
(e.g., Diggle). This patient probably presents with: - ANS ✔✔Surface alexia
Jaxon, a 78-year-old male, recently experienced a cerebrovascular accident leading to damage
of the border areas between the tissues that are supplied by the anterior, middle, and posterior
cerebral arteries. His speech is nonfluent, although his repetition of words and sentences is
preserved. All other aspects of Jaxon's language are severely impaired. Jaxon most likely
presents with: - ANS ✔✔Mixed transcortical aphasia
