CSD 444 Exam 3 Questions and Answers Fully Solved Latest Version 2025-2026
Dementia - Answers An acquired syndrome that is marked by memory loss and cognitive
decline
-Diffuse impairment of memory, intellect, and cognition
-NOT a specific disease
-NOT a normal part of aging
-Alzheimers is the most common cause of progressive dementia
-symptoms that impact you intellectually and socially, so you can no longer live independently
-Alterations of personality and behavior
-movement disorders or sensory disturbances occur
Dementia is used as - Answers An umbrella term to group diseases with memory loss
Symptoms of aphasia will - Answers -emerge slowly
-worsen overtime
-restrict ability to function
Cortical Dementia - Answers Changes to the cerebral cortex
-Alzheimers
-Picks
Subcortical Dementia - Answers Changes to the basal ganglia, thalamus, and brain stem
Brain areas affects are associated with: - Answers Short term memory, new learning, and other
higher cognitive functions
Diagnosing dementia - Answers -Short term memory impairment
AND
One of:
-Aphasia
-Apraxia
-Agnosia
, -Abstract thinking/exec functioning impairments
Short term memory impairment - Answers Inability to learn and retain new informaiton and
recall old information
Aphasia - Answers Unable speak language effectively
-In dementia its fluent
-impaired comprehension
-Can initiate a conversation
-Intact grammar and syntax, but what is being said doesnt make sense
-later language is mute or echolalia
Apraxia - Answers unable to perform motor activities yet they have intact motor function
-Need help with activities of daily living
Agnosia - Answers Difficulty recognizing or identifying objects despite intact sensory function
-later in the course of the illness
Impaired executive function - Answers Inability to plan, initiate, sequence, monitor, or stop
complex behaviors
-Contributes to loss of activities of daily living
Behavior Disturbances Common - Answers -Wondering at night
-Physically combative
-argue with care takers
-refuse medicine
-Dangerous memory lapses
-Delusions
-Disturbed sleep cycles
-Incontinence--pee when they want
Vascular Dementia - Answers Dementia caused by a blood loss disturbance to the brain
-tissue dies
Dementia - Answers An acquired syndrome that is marked by memory loss and cognitive
decline
-Diffuse impairment of memory, intellect, and cognition
-NOT a specific disease
-NOT a normal part of aging
-Alzheimers is the most common cause of progressive dementia
-symptoms that impact you intellectually and socially, so you can no longer live independently
-Alterations of personality and behavior
-movement disorders or sensory disturbances occur
Dementia is used as - Answers An umbrella term to group diseases with memory loss
Symptoms of aphasia will - Answers -emerge slowly
-worsen overtime
-restrict ability to function
Cortical Dementia - Answers Changes to the cerebral cortex
-Alzheimers
-Picks
Subcortical Dementia - Answers Changes to the basal ganglia, thalamus, and brain stem
Brain areas affects are associated with: - Answers Short term memory, new learning, and other
higher cognitive functions
Diagnosing dementia - Answers -Short term memory impairment
AND
One of:
-Aphasia
-Apraxia
-Agnosia
, -Abstract thinking/exec functioning impairments
Short term memory impairment - Answers Inability to learn and retain new informaiton and
recall old information
Aphasia - Answers Unable speak language effectively
-In dementia its fluent
-impaired comprehension
-Can initiate a conversation
-Intact grammar and syntax, but what is being said doesnt make sense
-later language is mute or echolalia
Apraxia - Answers unable to perform motor activities yet they have intact motor function
-Need help with activities of daily living
Agnosia - Answers Difficulty recognizing or identifying objects despite intact sensory function
-later in the course of the illness
Impaired executive function - Answers Inability to plan, initiate, sequence, monitor, or stop
complex behaviors
-Contributes to loss of activities of daily living
Behavior Disturbances Common - Answers -Wondering at night
-Physically combative
-argue with care takers
-refuse medicine
-Dangerous memory lapses
-Delusions
-Disturbed sleep cycles
-Incontinence--pee when they want
Vascular Dementia - Answers Dementia caused by a blood loss disturbance to the brain
-tissue dies
