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ULTIMATE PRAXIS 5331 SPEECH PATHOLOGY
(ACTUAL 2025/2026) QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS | GRADED A
vocal fold nodules - (answer)Typically bilateral and sit opposite of each other,
typically appear at the junction of the anterior and middle third portion of the
folds
cluttering - (answer)Highly dysfluent, rapid, unclear and disorganized speech.
Lack of personal concern or reduced awareness about problem
gestural AAC - (answer)No instruments or external aids are used; pantomime,
eyeblink encoding, American Indian hand talk, ASL
Hemorrhagic stroke - (answer)Caused by bleeding in the brain due to ruptured
blood vessels. Intracerebral (within brain) or extracerebral (within the meninges,
resulting in subarachnoid, subdural and epidural varieties)
Diaphragm - (answer)Respiration relies on the muscles of inspiration and
expiration. The thick dome shaped muscle that separates the abdomen from the
thorax is called the
Diaphragm - (answer)Respiration relies on the muscles of inspiration and
expiration. The thick dome shaped muscle that separates the abdomen from the
thorax is called the
orbicularis oris - (answer)The primary muscle of the lips is the
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efferent nerves - (answer)Also called motor nerves; nerves that carry information
out of the brain and spinal cord to other areas of the body.
globus, pallidus, caudate, and putamen - (answer)The corpus striatum is
composed of three nuclear masses, which are the
corpus callosum and basal ganglia - (answer)The anterior cerebral artery supplies
blood to the
Aryepiglottic folds - (answer)These are composed of a ring of connective tissue
and muscle extending from the tips of the arytenoid cartilages to the larynx. They
separate the laryngeal vestibule from the pharynx and help preserve the airway
palatoglossus, tensor veli palatini, and levator veli palatini - (answer)Muscles that
contribute to the velopharyngeal closure through tensing to elevating the velum
are the
lingual frenulum - (answer)The structure at the inferior portion of the tongue
that connects the tongue with the mandible is the
genioglossus - (answer)When a person is producing voiced and voiceless /th/, the
muscle most involved is the
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X - (answer)The cranial nerve that innervates the larynx and inneravates the
levator veli palatini, palatoglossus, and palatopharyngeus muscles is
Lateral cricoarytenoids and transverse arytenoids - (answer)Which muscles from
the list are most involved in adducting the vocal folds?
commissural fibers - (answer)cerebral hemispheres are connected by
reticular activating system - (answer)The central nervous systems primary
mechanism of attention, alertness, and consciousness, which is also related to
sleep wake cycles is the
percentral gyrus - (answer)The primary motor cortex in the frontal lobe is located
on the
Coarticulation - (answer)the influence of one phoneme upon another in
production and perception wherein two different articulators move
simultaneously to produce two different speech sounds.
mass and elasticity - (answer)Two properties of a medium that affect sound
transmission are
sinusoidal wave - (answer)a sound wave that has horizontal/vertical symmetry,
one peak and one valley, single frequency and results of simple harmonic motion.
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octave - (answer)an indication of the interval between two frequencies
natural frequency - (answer)a frequency with which a source of sound vibrates
naturally
oscillation - (answer)Back and forth movement of air molecules because of
vibrating object is known as
fundamental frequency - (answer)The lowest frequency of a periodic wave is also
known as the
complex tone - (answer)When two or more sounds of differing frequencies are
added the result is a
harmonics - (answer)In a periodically complex sound, tones occur over the
fundamental frequency and can be characterized as a whole number multiples of
the fundamental frequency are called
Bloodstein - (answer)advocated that stuttering may be caused by any belief that
speech is a difficult task, resulting in tension and speech fragmentation.
Brutten and Shoemaker - (answer)proposed that stuttering is limited to part
word repetitions and sound prolongations, stuttering is due to classically
conditioned negative emotion, some dysfluencies are operantly conditioned
ULTIMATE PRAXIS 5331 SPEECH PATHOLOGY
(ACTUAL 2025/2026) QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS | GRADED A
vocal fold nodules - (answer)Typically bilateral and sit opposite of each other,
typically appear at the junction of the anterior and middle third portion of the
folds
cluttering - (answer)Highly dysfluent, rapid, unclear and disorganized speech.
Lack of personal concern or reduced awareness about problem
gestural AAC - (answer)No instruments or external aids are used; pantomime,
eyeblink encoding, American Indian hand talk, ASL
Hemorrhagic stroke - (answer)Caused by bleeding in the brain due to ruptured
blood vessels. Intracerebral (within brain) or extracerebral (within the meninges,
resulting in subarachnoid, subdural and epidural varieties)
Diaphragm - (answer)Respiration relies on the muscles of inspiration and
expiration. The thick dome shaped muscle that separates the abdomen from the
thorax is called the
Diaphragm - (answer)Respiration relies on the muscles of inspiration and
expiration. The thick dome shaped muscle that separates the abdomen from the
thorax is called the
orbicularis oris - (answer)The primary muscle of the lips is the
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efferent nerves - (answer)Also called motor nerves; nerves that carry information
out of the brain and spinal cord to other areas of the body.
globus, pallidus, caudate, and putamen - (answer)The corpus striatum is
composed of three nuclear masses, which are the
corpus callosum and basal ganglia - (answer)The anterior cerebral artery supplies
blood to the
Aryepiglottic folds - (answer)These are composed of a ring of connective tissue
and muscle extending from the tips of the arytenoid cartilages to the larynx. They
separate the laryngeal vestibule from the pharynx and help preserve the airway
palatoglossus, tensor veli palatini, and levator veli palatini - (answer)Muscles that
contribute to the velopharyngeal closure through tensing to elevating the velum
are the
lingual frenulum - (answer)The structure at the inferior portion of the tongue
that connects the tongue with the mandible is the
genioglossus - (answer)When a person is producing voiced and voiceless /th/, the
muscle most involved is the
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X - (answer)The cranial nerve that innervates the larynx and inneravates the
levator veli palatini, palatoglossus, and palatopharyngeus muscles is
Lateral cricoarytenoids and transverse arytenoids - (answer)Which muscles from
the list are most involved in adducting the vocal folds?
commissural fibers - (answer)cerebral hemispheres are connected by
reticular activating system - (answer)The central nervous systems primary
mechanism of attention, alertness, and consciousness, which is also related to
sleep wake cycles is the
percentral gyrus - (answer)The primary motor cortex in the frontal lobe is located
on the
Coarticulation - (answer)the influence of one phoneme upon another in
production and perception wherein two different articulators move
simultaneously to produce two different speech sounds.
mass and elasticity - (answer)Two properties of a medium that affect sound
transmission are
sinusoidal wave - (answer)a sound wave that has horizontal/vertical symmetry,
one peak and one valley, single frequency and results of simple harmonic motion.
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octave - (answer)an indication of the interval between two frequencies
natural frequency - (answer)a frequency with which a source of sound vibrates
naturally
oscillation - (answer)Back and forth movement of air molecules because of
vibrating object is known as
fundamental frequency - (answer)The lowest frequency of a periodic wave is also
known as the
complex tone - (answer)When two or more sounds of differing frequencies are
added the result is a
harmonics - (answer)In a periodically complex sound, tones occur over the
fundamental frequency and can be characterized as a whole number multiples of
the fundamental frequency are called
Bloodstein - (answer)advocated that stuttering may be caused by any belief that
speech is a difficult task, resulting in tension and speech fragmentation.
Brutten and Shoemaker - (answer)proposed that stuttering is limited to part
word repetitions and sound prolongations, stuttering is due to classically
conditioned negative emotion, some dysfluencies are operantly conditioned
