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SLP Praxis Review Exam Questions And
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Speech-Language Pathology Praxis Review - answer✔This study set was adapted from the user
Anetz's practice set. She stated the following:
"This study set has at least 500 cards gleaned from as many SLP Praxis sets available on Quizlet
as of August 2016. Then I added more as I studied various practice Praxis tests. Feel free to
import this set into your own account so you can change personalize it.
This comes with no guarantees that it is 100% accurate! Check everything, and good luck!
Btw, I did pass the praxis."
As I have been studying, I have been confirming the information and insuring all information
from the Advanced Review of Speech-Language Pathology Fourth Edition has been included.
Subject areas that have been confirmed will include a "*confirmed*" in the subject heading.
NEUROANATOMY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY: THE NERVOUS SYSTEM (pg. 25-56) -
answer✔NEUROANATOMY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY: THE NERVOUS SYSTEM-
*confirmed*
Efferent/afferent neurons - answer✔transmit info away from brain (motor)/bring info to brain
(sensory)
Nerve cells endings - answer✔Dendrites - receive signals
Axons - send signal on
Microglia - answer✔Scavengers to remove dead cells and other waste in brain
Autonomic nervous system - answer✔Components:
Sympathetic nervous system
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Parasympathetic nervous system
Sympathetic nervous system - answer✔Activates fight or flight response
Parasympathetic nervous system - answer✔Returns body to state of relaxation
Pyramidal system vs Extrapyramidal - answer✔P: direct motor activation pathway, voluntary
movement, directly signals nerve cells in spine or brainstem (fast, skilled, conscious movements)
E: maintains posture and tone for voluntary movements, indirectly regulates LMN movement
activity (slow, postural, reflexive movements)
Damage results in involuntary and bizarre movement disorders; indirectly regulates nerve cells in
spine or brainstem
Both are motor pathways. E is called that to distinguish it from the pyramidal system that reaches
target locations by traveling through the 'pyramids' of the medulla.
Extrapyramidal composition - answer✔Subcortical nuclei: red nucleus, substantia nigra,
subthalamus, basal ganglia, and their pathways
Pyramidal system componenets - answer✔Projection fibers from cortex divide into:
Corticobulbar tract
Corticospinal tract
Corticobulbar tract - answer✔Control all voluntary muscles of speech (except respiratory)
Decussate (cross) at brainstem where CN's III-XII transition from UMN to LMN
With the exception of lower muscles of facial expression, all functions of the corticobulbar tract
involve inputs from both sides of the brain.
Corticospinal tract - answer✔Descend from motor cortex through the internal capsule, continue
through midbrain and pons (UMN)
Decussate at the medulla, 80-85%, causing contralateral control
After medulla they are LMN but no longer corticospinal tract
Lower motor neurons - answer✔Motor neurons in the spinal and cranial nerves
Peripheral nervous system
Upper motor neurons - answer✔Motor fibers within the central nervous system
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Cerebrum - answer✔Referred to as "gray matter"
Topmost portion of the brain (six layers)
Four lobes in the left and four lobes in the right
Lobes - answer✔Frontal
Parietal
Temporal
Occipital
Frontal lobe - answer✔Primary motor cortex (motor strip)- located on the precentral gyrus
Supplementary motor cortex
Broca's area
Parietal lobe - answer✔Also called the sensory cortex- somesthetic
Supramarginal gyrus- Damage= Conduction, agraphia (writing disorder)
Angular gyrus- Damage=writing, reading and naming impairment; transcortical sensory aphasia
Occipital lobe - answer✔Primary visual cortex and association
Temporal lobe - answer✔Primary auditory cortex (superior temporal gyrus)
Auditory association area (Heschl's)
Wernicke's (posterior temporal gyrus)
Brodmann's area 4 - answer✔Primary motor cortex
Brodmann's area 44 - answer✔Broca's area
Brodmann's area's 3, 1, 2 - answer✔Somatosensory cortex
Brodmann's area 6 - answer✔Supplementary motor cortex
Sound movement sequences
If damaged: Apraxia
Supramarginal gyrus - answer✔Parietal lobe, Brodmann's 40
Anterior to angular gyrus
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Posterior to Wernicke's
Conduction aphasia, receptive aphasia
Language perception and processing
Agraphia
Angular gyrus - answer✔Pariental lobe (temporal edge), Brodmann's 39
Posterior to supramarginal gyrus
Transcortical sensory aphasia
Writing, reading, naming
Arcuate fascilicus - answer✔Connects Broca's to Wernicke's
Part of speech-production pathway
Anterior cingulate cortex - answer✔Frontal part of cingulate cortex
Resembles 'collar' around front of corpus callossum
Brodmanns 24, 32, 33
Autonomic functions, blood pressure, heart rate
Higher-level function role: reward anticipation, decision making, impulse control, emotion
Supplemental motor area - answer✔Sound-movement sequences
Damage: Apraxia
Posterior right hemisphere damage result - answer✔Impaired facial recognition
Executive function location - answer✔Anterior cingulate
Dorsolateral pre-frontal corteces
Attention location - answer✔Frontal and parietal lobes
Hippocampus function - answer✔Memory
Integrates all sensations into experience
Memory location - answer✔Hippocampus
Pre-frontal cortex
10/23/2024 11:19 PM
SLP Praxis Review Exam Questions And
Answers 100% Pass
Speech-Language Pathology Praxis Review - answer✔This study set was adapted from the user
Anetz's practice set. She stated the following:
"This study set has at least 500 cards gleaned from as many SLP Praxis sets available on Quizlet
as of August 2016. Then I added more as I studied various practice Praxis tests. Feel free to
import this set into your own account so you can change personalize it.
This comes with no guarantees that it is 100% accurate! Check everything, and good luck!
Btw, I did pass the praxis."
As I have been studying, I have been confirming the information and insuring all information
from the Advanced Review of Speech-Language Pathology Fourth Edition has been included.
Subject areas that have been confirmed will include a "*confirmed*" in the subject heading.
NEUROANATOMY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY: THE NERVOUS SYSTEM (pg. 25-56) -
answer✔NEUROANATOMY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY: THE NERVOUS SYSTEM-
*confirmed*
Efferent/afferent neurons - answer✔transmit info away from brain (motor)/bring info to brain
(sensory)
Nerve cells endings - answer✔Dendrites - receive signals
Axons - send signal on
Microglia - answer✔Scavengers to remove dead cells and other waste in brain
Autonomic nervous system - answer✔Components:
Sympathetic nervous system
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Parasympathetic nervous system
Sympathetic nervous system - answer✔Activates fight or flight response
Parasympathetic nervous system - answer✔Returns body to state of relaxation
Pyramidal system vs Extrapyramidal - answer✔P: direct motor activation pathway, voluntary
movement, directly signals nerve cells in spine or brainstem (fast, skilled, conscious movements)
E: maintains posture and tone for voluntary movements, indirectly regulates LMN movement
activity (slow, postural, reflexive movements)
Damage results in involuntary and bizarre movement disorders; indirectly regulates nerve cells in
spine or brainstem
Both are motor pathways. E is called that to distinguish it from the pyramidal system that reaches
target locations by traveling through the 'pyramids' of the medulla.
Extrapyramidal composition - answer✔Subcortical nuclei: red nucleus, substantia nigra,
subthalamus, basal ganglia, and their pathways
Pyramidal system componenets - answer✔Projection fibers from cortex divide into:
Corticobulbar tract
Corticospinal tract
Corticobulbar tract - answer✔Control all voluntary muscles of speech (except respiratory)
Decussate (cross) at brainstem where CN's III-XII transition from UMN to LMN
With the exception of lower muscles of facial expression, all functions of the corticobulbar tract
involve inputs from both sides of the brain.
Corticospinal tract - answer✔Descend from motor cortex through the internal capsule, continue
through midbrain and pons (UMN)
Decussate at the medulla, 80-85%, causing contralateral control
After medulla they are LMN but no longer corticospinal tract
Lower motor neurons - answer✔Motor neurons in the spinal and cranial nerves
Peripheral nervous system
Upper motor neurons - answer✔Motor fibers within the central nervous system
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Cerebrum - answer✔Referred to as "gray matter"
Topmost portion of the brain (six layers)
Four lobes in the left and four lobes in the right
Lobes - answer✔Frontal
Parietal
Temporal
Occipital
Frontal lobe - answer✔Primary motor cortex (motor strip)- located on the precentral gyrus
Supplementary motor cortex
Broca's area
Parietal lobe - answer✔Also called the sensory cortex- somesthetic
Supramarginal gyrus- Damage= Conduction, agraphia (writing disorder)
Angular gyrus- Damage=writing, reading and naming impairment; transcortical sensory aphasia
Occipital lobe - answer✔Primary visual cortex and association
Temporal lobe - answer✔Primary auditory cortex (superior temporal gyrus)
Auditory association area (Heschl's)
Wernicke's (posterior temporal gyrus)
Brodmann's area 4 - answer✔Primary motor cortex
Brodmann's area 44 - answer✔Broca's area
Brodmann's area's 3, 1, 2 - answer✔Somatosensory cortex
Brodmann's area 6 - answer✔Supplementary motor cortex
Sound movement sequences
If damaged: Apraxia
Supramarginal gyrus - answer✔Parietal lobe, Brodmann's 40
Anterior to angular gyrus
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Posterior to Wernicke's
Conduction aphasia, receptive aphasia
Language perception and processing
Agraphia
Angular gyrus - answer✔Pariental lobe (temporal edge), Brodmann's 39
Posterior to supramarginal gyrus
Transcortical sensory aphasia
Writing, reading, naming
Arcuate fascilicus - answer✔Connects Broca's to Wernicke's
Part of speech-production pathway
Anterior cingulate cortex - answer✔Frontal part of cingulate cortex
Resembles 'collar' around front of corpus callossum
Brodmanns 24, 32, 33
Autonomic functions, blood pressure, heart rate
Higher-level function role: reward anticipation, decision making, impulse control, emotion
Supplemental motor area - answer✔Sound-movement sequences
Damage: Apraxia
Posterior right hemisphere damage result - answer✔Impaired facial recognition
Executive function location - answer✔Anterior cingulate
Dorsolateral pre-frontal corteces
Attention location - answer✔Frontal and parietal lobes
Hippocampus function - answer✔Memory
Integrates all sensations into experience
Memory location - answer✔Hippocampus
Pre-frontal cortex
