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A 65- year- old man has noticed a change in his personality and
his ability to understand. He cries and becomes angry very easily.
The cerebral lobe responsible for these behaviors is the ___ lobe.
a. Frontal
b. Parietal
c. Occipital
d. Temporal - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-a. Frontal
The medical record indicates that a person has an injury to
Broca's area. When meeting this person, you expect:
a. Difficulty speaking
b. Receptive aphasia
c. Visual disturbances
d. Emotional lability - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-a. Difficulty speaking
To test for stereognosis, you would:
a. Have the person close his or her eyes and then raise the
person's arm and ask the person to describe its location.
b. Touch the person with a tuning fork.
c. Place a coin in the person's hand and ask him or her to identify
it.
d. Touch the person with a cold object. - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-c.
Place a coin in the person's hand and ask him or her to identify it.
Cerebellar function is assessed by which of the following:
a. Muscle size and strength assessment
,b. Cranial nerve examination
c. Coordination - hopping on one foot
d. Spinothalamic test - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-c. Coordination -
hopping on one foot
To elicit the Babinski reflex:
a. Gently tap the Achilles tendon.
b. Stroke the lateral aspect of the sole of the foot from heel to
across the ball.
c. Present a noxious odor to the person
d. Observe the person walking heel to toe. - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-b.
Stroke the lateral aspect of the sole of the foot from heel to across
the ball.
During a neurological examination, the tendon reflex fails to
appear. Before striking the tendon again, you use the technique
of:
a. Two-point discrimination
b. Reinforcement
c. Vibration
d. Graphesthesia - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-b. Reinforcement
During the assessment of the spine, the patient would be asked
to:
a. Adduct and extend
b. Supinate, evert, and retract
c. Extend, adduct, invert, and rotate
d. Flex, extend, abduct, and rotate - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-d. Flex,
extend, abduct, and rotate
,A 70- year- old woman has come for a health examination. Which
of the following is a common age-related change in the curvature
of the spinal column.
a. Lordosis
b. Scoliosis
c. Kyphosis
d. Lateral scoliosis - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-c. Kyphosis
Examination of the shoulder includes 4 motions. These are:
a. Forward flexion, internal rotation, abduction, and external
rotation.
b. Abduction, adduction, pronation, and supination.
c. Circumduction, inversion, eversion, and rotation.
d. Elevation, retraction, protraction, and circumduction. -
✔✔ANSWER✔✔-a. Forward flexion, internal rotation, abduction,
and external rotation.
The examiner measures a patient's legs for length discrepancy.
Which is a normal findings?
a. No difference in measurements
b. 0.5cm difference
c. Within 1 cm of each other
d. 2 cm difference - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-c. Within 1 cm of each other
On a patient's second day in an acute care hospital, the patient
complains about the "bugs" on the bed. The bed is clean. This
would be an example of altered:
a. Thought process
b. Orientation
c. Perception
, d. Higher intellectual function - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-c. Perception
One way to assess cognitive function and to screen dementia with
is:
a. The Proverb Interpretation Test
b. The Mini Mental Status Exam
c. The Denver Development Test
d The Older Adult Behavior Checklist - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-b. The
Mini Mental Status Exam
A major characteristic of dementia is:
a. Impairment of short and long term memory
b. Hallucinations
c. Sudden onset of symptoms
d. Substance-induced - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-a. Impairment of short
and long term memory
A configuration of individual lesions arranged in circles or arcs, as
occurs with ringworm, is described as a:
a. Linear lesion
b. Clustered lesion
c. Annular lesion
d. Gyrate lesion - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔-c. Annular lesion
It is normal to palpate a few lymph nodes in the neck of a healthy
person. What are the characteristics of these nodes?
a. Mobile, soft, nontender
b. Large, clumped, tender
c. Matted, fixed, tender, hard
