Older adults are considered _____ yrs old or older - Correct Answer 65
____ is an example of change in older adults - Correct Answer Blood vessels losing elasticity
______ is a standardized set of symbols and knowledge about how to combine those symbols into
words/sentences in order to convey ideas and feelings - Correct Answer Language
The building blocks of language include - Correct Answer USE
____ is how words are arranged in a sentence - Correct Answer Syntax
A parrot repeating a phrase is - Correct Answer Speech
A 70 years old person is learning new vocabulary from his new hobby. This is ______. - Correct Answer
Semantics
Speaking differently to a 5 year old kid from your professor is - Correct Answer Pragmatics
Knowing the difference btw the word "love" and "lovely" is an example of _____ & ______ - Correct
Answer Form & Morphology
A mother driving down the road and talking to her child in the back seat is an example of which type of
attention? - Correct Answer Divided attention
Switch attention between two tasks is - Correct Answer Alternation attention
Recalling the name of your 9th grade teacher is an example of - Correct Answer Declarative memory
,Before you write a paper, structuring the outline of your writing requires good _____ skills - Correct
Answer Executive functioning
To focus on reading a book while ignoring the environmental noise, ______ is required the most -
Correct Answer Sustained attention
Tongue movements when you speak or chew is ______ memory - Correct Answer Non declarative
Watching a TV show while eating a meal requires ________ - Correct Answer Divided attention
Cognition - Correct Answer Affects communication skills
_____ is affected by aging - Correct Answer Working memory
_____ is to hold information for a few sections and manipulate the information to complete the task. -
Correct Answer Working memory
______ indicates therapy and evaluation techniques that must be deemed effective based on clinical
opinion or valid and reliable research - Correct Answer Evidence based practice
The ___ provides the power source for speech - Correct Answer Respiratory system
During inspiration, after inspiratory muscles contract, the lung volume expands. Then, _____ to take air
into the lungs - Correct Answer The lung pressure decreases
Speech (in English) occurs during ________. - Correct Answer expiration
The function of the intrinsic laryngeal muscles includes - Correct Answer Vibration of vocal folds and
manipulating pitch
During speech breathing, _____ phase is longer. - Correct Answer expiratory
, If the vocal folds are lengthened, the fundamental frequency - Correct Answer Increases
Vocal folds position (a) _____ to vibrate and produce (b) _____ sounds. - Correct Answer (a) adduction
(b) voiced
A function of the right hemisphere includes - Correct Answer prosody
Auditory processing is one of the functions of the _____ lobe - Correct Answer Temporal (look up image
of where the temporal lobe is located)
____ provides motor and sensory innervation for head and neck - Correct Answer Cranial nerves
Larger volume of the lungs is needed for speech compared to quiet breathing. - Correct Answer TRUE
_____ is NOT the function of the larynx - Correct Answer Articulation
_____ is one of the functions of the left hemisphere - Correct Answer Calculation and math
____ is one of the common etiologies of neurogenic communication disorders - Correct Answer
Cerebrovascular accident
____ is when an occlusion in a blood vessel deprives brain tissue of the blood supply necessary for
survival of the tissue - Correct Answer Ischemic stroke
_____ is a small ischemia within the brain that resolves within 24 hours, also called mini-stroke. - Correct
Answer Transient ischemic attack
____ is a neurodegenerative disease that affects motor controls and causes communication disorders -
Correct Answer Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)