CDIA - Exam 1 (chpt 1-3) UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
speech - CORRECT ANSWER - Sounds the mouth makes to produce words
language - CORRECT ANSWER - -Symbol set used to communicate meaning
-Usually verbal, written, or sign
cognition - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to process thought
attention - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to hold focus on stimuli
vigilence - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to stay alert
sustained attention - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to hold attention on aisngle stimulus
selective attention - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to hold attention to a stimulus while
ignoring competing stimuli
alternating attention - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to alternate attention back and forth
beween stimuli
divided attention - CORRECT ANSWER - attending to one stimulus while simultaneously
attending to another
working memory - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to hold finite amount of information for
immediate processing and manipulation
, short-term memory - CORRECT ANSWER - retention of information for 30 seconds up to
a few hours
long-term memory - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to retain information over
months/years
procedural memory - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to remember sequences of actions
needed to complete the action
declarative memory - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to remember facts
episodic memory - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to recall specific and recent events
central nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER - brain and spinal cord
- encased in bone
peripheral nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER - spinal nerves and cranial nerves
- encased in soft tissue
- connects the rest of the body to the CNS
meninges (outermost to innermost) - CORRECT ANSWER - dura mater (dense protective
tissue layer)
arachnoid mater (contains vascular supply to the surface of the brain
pia mater (most delicate innermost layer)
CSF & purpose - CORRECT ANSWER - cerebrospinal fluid is housed in the ventricles
within the brain and delivers nutrients removes waste, and helps protect the brain from trauma
- produced in the choroid plexus
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
speech - CORRECT ANSWER - Sounds the mouth makes to produce words
language - CORRECT ANSWER - -Symbol set used to communicate meaning
-Usually verbal, written, or sign
cognition - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to process thought
attention - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to hold focus on stimuli
vigilence - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to stay alert
sustained attention - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to hold attention on aisngle stimulus
selective attention - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to hold attention to a stimulus while
ignoring competing stimuli
alternating attention - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to alternate attention back and forth
beween stimuli
divided attention - CORRECT ANSWER - attending to one stimulus while simultaneously
attending to another
working memory - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to hold finite amount of information for
immediate processing and manipulation
, short-term memory - CORRECT ANSWER - retention of information for 30 seconds up to
a few hours
long-term memory - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to retain information over
months/years
procedural memory - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to remember sequences of actions
needed to complete the action
declarative memory - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to remember facts
episodic memory - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to recall specific and recent events
central nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER - brain and spinal cord
- encased in bone
peripheral nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER - spinal nerves and cranial nerves
- encased in soft tissue
- connects the rest of the body to the CNS
meninges (outermost to innermost) - CORRECT ANSWER - dura mater (dense protective
tissue layer)
arachnoid mater (contains vascular supply to the surface of the brain
pia mater (most delicate innermost layer)
CSF & purpose - CORRECT ANSWER - cerebrospinal fluid is housed in the ventricles
within the brain and delivers nutrients removes waste, and helps protect the brain from trauma
- produced in the choroid plexus
