NBCOT PREDICTOR EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS (VERIFIED AND WELL DETAILED
ANSWERS) LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025
In infant development which comes first:
bilaterality or unilaterality? - ...(ANSWERS)....__________ precedes unilaterality
in infant
development
When does hand dominance begin to develop? - ...(ANSWERS)....Hand
dominance begins to develop at 3 to 6 years
and is not fully defined until 6 years
Can someone with receptive aphasia participate in
sensory testing? - ...(ANSWERS)....Individuals with this disorder cannot
comprehend
spoken or written words or symbols. Individuals
cannot understand verbal directions or respond to
sensory stimuli.
What is agnosia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Agnosia is a category of defecits where the
patient
lacks recognition of familiar object as perceived
by the senses. This could involve all the senses and
manifests with problems in body scheme such as
,somatognosia and anosognosia.
What is somatognosia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Lack of awareness of one's body parts.
What is anosognosia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Anosognosia: Transient severe form of
neglect.
Patient does not recognize the presence or severity
of his paralysis.
What is prosopagnosia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Face blindness. Inability to identify an
individual
by their face.
What is visual-spacial agnosia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Affects perception of spatial
relationship between
objects or between objects and self.
What is auditory agnosia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Inability to recognize sounds words
and
non-words.
What is visual agnosia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Lack of ability to recognize common
objects and
,demonstrate their use in an activity.
What is apraxia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Loss of the ability to execute or carry out
learned
(familiar) movements despite having the desire
and the physical ability to perform the movements
What is ideomotor apraxia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Inability to imitate gestures or
perform a
purposeful motor task on command even though
the patient is able to fully understand the idea or
concept of a task. This is often associated with left
hemisphere damage.
What is ideational apraxia? - ...(ANSWERS)....The disability of carrying out
complex sequential
motor acts. Caused by a disruption of the
conception rather than execution. (Loss of tool
function knowledge)
What is constructional apraxia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Unable to produce designs in 2
or three
dimensions by copying drawing or constructing.
, What is oral apraxia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Difficulty in forming and organizing
intelligable
words though the musculature required to do so is
in tact. Differs from disarthria because no muscles
are affected and speech is not slurred.
What is a neuroma? - ...(ANSWERS)....A ______ is an unorganized mass of nerve
fibers
resulting from a laceration (either surgical or
accidental) or amputation in which the nerve
regrows in unorganized bundles. Results in sharp
radiating pain.
By what age does an infant sit erect and
unsupported for several minutes? - ...(ANSWERS)....By 8 to 9 months an infant
can sit erect and
unsupported.
What is reflex sympathetic dystrophy? - ...(ANSWERS)....__________ is caused by
trauma post-surgical
inflammation infection or laceration to an
extremity. Characterized by pain edema shiny
ANSWERS (VERIFIED AND WELL DETAILED
ANSWERS) LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025
In infant development which comes first:
bilaterality or unilaterality? - ...(ANSWERS)....__________ precedes unilaterality
in infant
development
When does hand dominance begin to develop? - ...(ANSWERS)....Hand
dominance begins to develop at 3 to 6 years
and is not fully defined until 6 years
Can someone with receptive aphasia participate in
sensory testing? - ...(ANSWERS)....Individuals with this disorder cannot
comprehend
spoken or written words or symbols. Individuals
cannot understand verbal directions or respond to
sensory stimuli.
What is agnosia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Agnosia is a category of defecits where the
patient
lacks recognition of familiar object as perceived
by the senses. This could involve all the senses and
manifests with problems in body scheme such as
,somatognosia and anosognosia.
What is somatognosia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Lack of awareness of one's body parts.
What is anosognosia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Anosognosia: Transient severe form of
neglect.
Patient does not recognize the presence or severity
of his paralysis.
What is prosopagnosia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Face blindness. Inability to identify an
individual
by their face.
What is visual-spacial agnosia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Affects perception of spatial
relationship between
objects or between objects and self.
What is auditory agnosia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Inability to recognize sounds words
and
non-words.
What is visual agnosia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Lack of ability to recognize common
objects and
,demonstrate their use in an activity.
What is apraxia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Loss of the ability to execute or carry out
learned
(familiar) movements despite having the desire
and the physical ability to perform the movements
What is ideomotor apraxia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Inability to imitate gestures or
perform a
purposeful motor task on command even though
the patient is able to fully understand the idea or
concept of a task. This is often associated with left
hemisphere damage.
What is ideational apraxia? - ...(ANSWERS)....The disability of carrying out
complex sequential
motor acts. Caused by a disruption of the
conception rather than execution. (Loss of tool
function knowledge)
What is constructional apraxia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Unable to produce designs in 2
or three
dimensions by copying drawing or constructing.
, What is oral apraxia? - ...(ANSWERS)....Difficulty in forming and organizing
intelligable
words though the musculature required to do so is
in tact. Differs from disarthria because no muscles
are affected and speech is not slurred.
What is a neuroma? - ...(ANSWERS)....A ______ is an unorganized mass of nerve
fibers
resulting from a laceration (either surgical or
accidental) or amputation in which the nerve
regrows in unorganized bundles. Results in sharp
radiating pain.
By what age does an infant sit erect and
unsupported for several minutes? - ...(ANSWERS)....By 8 to 9 months an infant
can sit erect and
unsupported.
What is reflex sympathetic dystrophy? - ...(ANSWERS)....__________ is caused by
trauma post-surgical
inflammation infection or laceration to an
extremity. Characterized by pain edema shiny
