| Question | Answer |
| Common cause of dementia | Alzheimer's |
| What type of memory declines with age? | Declarative Memory |
| What type of memory stays unchanged with age? | Non-declarative memory - singing happy birthday, tying shoes |
| Working memory declines in aging is a pathological change. | False, it is normal for it to decline |
| Cognition declines occur except for what area?
Processing speed
Divided attention
Sustained attention
Working memory | Sustained Attention |
| Narrowing of vessels that supply blood to the heart is called | Coronary Artery Disease |
| Loss of central vision is called | Macular Degeneration |
| Inflammation of the joints is called | Arthritis |
| Leading cause of death in elderly is | Pneumonia |
| Two types of stokes and what happens to the vessels | Ischemic = blood vessel occluded
Hemorrhagic = blood vessel bursts |
| _____________ bilingual language learners acquire two languages from birth | Simultaneous |
| What is the difference between fast mapping and slow mapping? | Fast mapping happens when the person hears a word on a single occasion.
Slow mapping occurs when that vocabulary word's meaning is extended by more expriences, knowledge of the word |
| Slower speech rate
Difficulty in phoneme execution
are both the result of | Normal changes in the articulatory system as a result of aging |
| One of the speech subsystems | respiratory, phonatory, or articulatory |
| Normal changes in speech subsystem as a person ages | R- decreased elasticity of tissue, diminished cough etc.
P-loss of vocal fold mass, ossification of laryngeal cartilages etc.
A-loss of dentition, decrease of lingual sensation,etc. |
| Sequential language learning includes what behaviors | Language loss
Interference/transfer
Code switching
Silent period |
| The ability to view language as an object of attention | Metalinguistic Competence |
| By what age is children's MLU about the same as adults? | 6 |
| Component of language that allows 3 year old to produce subject +verb+object | Syntax |
| Rules governing the internal organization of words | Morphology |
| Phonological development and knowledge is developed by what age to generally fully intelligible speech? | 3-4 |
| Non fluent aphasia is associated with damage to ______area | Broca's |
| What system does visual acuity affect? | Sensory-perceptual |
| The vocabulary spurt describes what component of language? | Semantics |
| Class of sounds that emerges the earliest | Nasals |
