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• What are the possible causes of visual agnosia?

  1. Brain Damage
  2. Dementia
  3. Alzheimer's
  4. Myopia
  5. Stroke

  Answers are:

  1.Brain damage

  2.Dementia

  5.Stroke
• What are the steps required for one to recognise an object?

  1. Recognising the objects can have different shapes
  2. Have good vision
  3. Having a semantic understanding features and structures
  4. Having prior experience with the object
  5. Having a 'typical' parietal lobe


  Answer:

  1.Recognising that objects have different shapes

  3.Having a semantic understanding of features and structures
• What become impaired for patients with a right posterior lesion?

  1. Vision in the left eye
  2. Ability to copy objects in drawing form
  3. Ability to discriminate between shapes
  4. Ability to recognise objects
  5. Ability to recognise objects in the left visual field


  Answer:

  4.Ability to recognise objects in the unusual view
• What are features of he Mcarthy and warrington case study of Patient FRA?

  1. Could name objects
  2. Had internal knowledge of how objects looked in different circumstances
  3. could see perception of object(s)
  4. All of the above
  5. None of the above

  Answer:

  3.Could see perception of object(s)
• What is a feature of apperceptive agnosia that isn't a feature of associative agnosia?

  1. Have a normal perception
  2. Unable to copy pictures
  3. Ability to discriminate between overlapping figures
  4. Good at the 'Efron Shape Matching' task
  5. Able to identify images in an unusual view test


  Answer:

  2.Unable to copy pictures

  3.Ability to discriminate between overlapping figures
• Which of these are ways of acquiring brain damage?

  1. Strokes
  2. Tumours
  3. Neurosurgery
  4. Agnosia
  5. Head Injury


  Answers:

  1.Strokes

  2.Tumours

  5.Head Injury
• Which of these are not levels of Humphrey's and Riddoch's (1993) modern account of agnosia?

  1. Number identification
  2. Shape/Feature Coding
  3. Semantic Knowledge
  4. Stored structural descriptions
  5. Mapping to stored structural descriptions


  Answer:

  1.Number Identification
• What is true of the ventral route of the brain?

  1. Used for vision in action
  2. Located in the frontal lobe
  3. Used for vision in perception
  4. Part of the parietal lobe
  5. Part of the inferotemporal lobe


  Answer:

  3.Used for vision in perception

  5.Part of the inferotemporal lobe
• Which these statements is true about patient DF?

  1. They had anterior cerebral lesions
  2. They suffered CO poisoning
  3. They could pass the 'Efron Shape Match" test/task
  4. Able to discriminate between blocks of different sizes
  5. They could accurately pick up objects


  Answers:

  2.They suffered CO poisoning

  %.They could accurately pick up objects
• Which of these are possible causes of visual agnosia?

  1. Brain tumours
  2. Strokes
  3. Hallucination
  4. Carbon monoxide poisoning (CO)
  5. Retinal injury


  Answers:

  1.Brain tumours

  4.Carbon monoxide poisoning (CO)

  5.Retinal Injury
• Which of these are causes of apperceptive agnosia?

  • Too much sleep
  • Strokes
  • Falling off your bike
  • CO2 poisoning
  • CO poisoning 


  Answers:

  • Strokes
  • CO poisoining
• What was it patient HJA said about the onion?

  • Like a fork
  • Looks like you could wear it on your head
  • You use it to play sport
  • It could be a necklace
  • My dog has one of those

  Answers:

  • Like a fork
  • It could be a necklace
• Which of these is not a level of Lissauer's account of agnosia?

  • Feature coding
  • Stored structural descriptions
  • Figure-ground segmentation
  • Shape matching
  • Semantic knowledge


  Answer:

  • Shape matching
• Which of these is correct about the ventral root/route?

  • It's in the temporal area
  • If damaged perception is impaired
  • If intact perception is impaired
  • It's the pathway between the occipital and temporal lobe


  Answers:

  • If damaged perception is impaired
  • It's the pathway between the occipital and temporal lobe
• What is the 'Efron Shape Matching' task a test of?

  • Shape coding ability
  • Semantic knowledge
  • Associative agnosia
  • Pseudoagnosia

  Answer:

  -Shape coding ability
• What does Agnosia mean?

  1. With knowledge
  2. Without knowledge
  3. Some knowledge
  4. Crazy amounts of knowledge

  Answer:

  2.Without knowledge
• What are the the types of Agnosia?

  1. Apperceptive
  2. Associative
  3. Perceptive
  4. Sociative

  Answers:

  1. Apperceptive
  2. Associative
• What are some of the key characteristics of someone with Apperceptive Agnosia?

  1. Problem with percept
  2. Cannot form a stable representation of an object
  3. Can occur after strokes, anima or CO poisoning
  4. Have a normal percept

  Answer:

  1. Problems with percept
  2. Cannot form a stable representation of an object
  3. Can occur after strokes, anoxia, or CO poisoning
• What are people with Apperceptive Agnosia impaired at?

  1. Copying
  2. Efron Shape Matching task
  3. Discriminating between overlapping figures
  4. Unusual view test

  Answers:

  1. Copying
  2. Efron Shape Matching task
  3. Discriminating between overlapping figures
  4. unusual view test
• What is the the most common form of brain injury in people under 40 yrs of age?

  1. Strokes
  2. Neurodegenerative disorders
  3. Tumours
  4. Traumatic Head Injuries
  5. Viral infections

  Answer:

  4.Traumatic Head Injuries
• What is/are the appropriate test(s) for suspected issues with mapping to stored structural descriptions?

  1. Object decision
  2. Unusual views
  3. Size order
  4. face recognition
  5. Shape matching

  Answers:

  2.Unusual views

  5.Shape matching
• Which of the following would someone with pseudoagnosia have problems with?

  1. Discriminating between different brightnesses
  2. Objects orientated in different ways
  3. Objects that are similar in colour
  4. Blurry images
  5. Tactile cues

  Answers:

  1. Discriminating between different brightnesses
  2. Objects orientated in different ways
  3. Objects that are similar in colour
  4. Blurry images
• Damage to which area of the brain would impair a patient's dorsal visual pathway?

  1. Inferotemporal
  2. Occipital
  3. Lateral Geniculate Nucleus
  4. Parietal
  5. Kidney


  Answer:

  4.Parietal
• Which of the following about Patient Mrs FRG are false?

  1. She could discriminate between shapes
  2. she could make a figure-ground discrimination
  3. Her brain damage was caused by neurosurgery on her right hemisphere
  4. She had no issues with her perceptual system
  5. She was able to distinguish between individual shapes in an image with multiple shapes present

  Answers:

  2, 3 , 4, 5
• Which of the following describes visual agnosia?

  1. Focuses on experimental studies rather than case studies
  2. Looks at case studies of patients with brain lesions
  3. Conduct split brain operations, specifically to examine symptoms
  4. Examines what tasks patients are impaired at
  5. Examines what patients do


  Answers:

  2.Looks at case studies of patients with brain lesions

  4.Examines what tasks patients are impaired at

  5.Examines what patients do
• Which of theses is false about the case study of HJA by Humphreys and Riddoch?

  1. He was unable to access objects visually
  2. No semantic knowledge of object when given auditory information
  3. Semantic knowledge is accessed by one modality unless there is damage to the left hemisphere
  4. Semantic knowledge is damaged, then semantic information cannot be accessed

  Answers:

  2.No semantic knowledge of object when given auditory information

  3.Semantic knowledge is only accessed by on one modality unless there is damage to the left hemisphere
• Which case study does this describe? Damage is due to a lesion in the brain, they performed well on the object decision task but had semantic agnosia.

  1. Dr P (sacks, 1985)
  2. FRA (McCarthy & Warrington, 1986)
  3. HO (Stewart et al., 1992)
  4. FRG (Kartsounis & Warrington, 1991)
  5. DF (Goodale et al., 1991)


  Answer:

  3.HO (Stewart et al., 1992)
• Patients who took part in the Warrington & Taylor's unusual views test (1973) had which form of brain lesion?

  1. Right anterior
  2. Left posterior
  3. Left anterior
  4. Right posterior
  5. None of the above

  Answer:

  4.Right posterior
• Who believes that the failure to perceive a shape should be classified as agnosia?

  1. Humphreys
  2. Lissauer
  3. Warrington
  4. Riddoch
  5. All of the above

  Answers:

  1.Humphreys

  4.Riddoch
• Which of the following describes FRA's brain damage?

  1. Suffered a right hemisphere stroke affecting the temporal lobe
  2. Had a failed lobotomy
  3. Suffered a left hemisphere stroke
  4. His occipital lobe was effected
  5. He had a commissurotomy due to his epileptic seizures


  Answers:

  3.His occipital lobe was effected

  4. He had a commissurotomy due to his epileptic seizures
• What are the properties of diagnosing Apperceptive Agnosia?

  1. The problem of properly perceiving objects
  2. The inability to form a stable representation of an object
  3. The inability to attribute identity to an object
  4. Problem with the stored knowledge
  5. Occurring after strokes, anoxia or CO poisoning


  Answers:

  1. The problem of properly perceiving objects
  2. The inability to form a stable representation of an object
  3. Occurring after strokes, anoxia or co poisoning
• What tests did patient FRA fail to perform?

  1. Putting objects in order of real-life size through visual image
  2. Identify overlapping shapes or figures
  3. Efron Shape Matching task
  4. Ability to copy pictures through sketching
  5. Matching task of dissimilar objects with same function 


  Answers:

  1.Putting objects in order of real-life size through visual images

  5.Matching task of dissimilar objects w/ same function
• What is/ are the features of semantic knowledge impairment?

  1. Inability to identify the function of an objects
  2. Inability to have semantic knowledge even when given auditory information
  3. Fail/ perform poorly at the object decision task
  4. The patient has its genes distorted resulting in the inability to recognise things
  5. Often merges individual shares together resulting in an incorrect visual stimulus

  Answers:

  1.Inability to identify the function of objects

  4. The patient has its genes distorted resulting in the inability to recognise things
• How did patient DF obtain a brain lesion?

  1. Traumatic head injury from road traffic accident (RTA)
  2. Neurosurgery
  3. Strokes
  4. CO poisoning leading to posterior cerebral lesions
  5. Brain tumour

  Answer:

  4. CO poisoning leading to posterior cerebral lesions
• What happened to patient Mrs. FRG?

  1. Inability to discriminate between shapes
  2. Brain tumour
  3. Failing to recognise overlapping figures
  4. Traumatic head injury
  5. Cortical degeneration


  Answers:

  3.Failing to recognise overlapping figures

  5. Cortical degeneration
• What are the causes of Visual Agnosia?

  1. Britain damage
  2. dementia
  3. Poor eyesight
  4. Neurological disorders

  Answers:

  1.Brain damage

  2.Dementia

  4.Neurological disorder
• What does Visual Agnosia mean?

  1. "Without sight"
  2. "Lost knowledge"
  3. "Without knowledge"
  4. "Sensory input impairment"


  Answer:

  3."Without knowledge"
• What are the types of Agnosia coined by Lissauer (1890)?

  1. Apperceptive
  2. Stimulus
  3. Cognitive
  4. Associative
  5. Perception

  Answers:

  1.Appercetpive

  4. Associative
• What is the Efron Shape Matching task?

  1. Asking to draw shapes from description
  2. Asking to draw shapes from pictures
  3. Asking to state whether shapes are same or different from description
  4. Asking to state whether shapes are same or different from picture

  Answer:

  4.Asking to state whether shapes are same or different from pictures
• What are the levels of Apperceptive Agnosia in the Modern Account of Agnosia: Five Levels?

  1. Shape/feature coding
  2. Stored structural descriptions
  3. Feature integration/ Figure-ground segmentation
  4. Mapping to stored structural descriptions
  5. Semantic knowledge

  Answers

  1. Shape/feature coding
  2. Stored structural description

  4.Mapping to stored structural descriptions