NBCOT/COTA - Exam Prep Questions
with Answers
In infant development, which comes first: bilaterality or unilaterality? -Answer- precedes
unilaterality in infant development
When does hand dominance begin to develop?
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NBCOT/COTA - Exam Prep Questions
with Answers
In infant development, which comes first: bilaterality or unilaterality? -Answer- precedes
unilaterality in infant development
When does hand dominance begin to develop? -Answer- Hand dominance begins to
develop at 3 to 6 years, and is not fully defined until 6 years
Can someone with receptive aphasia participate in sensory testing? -AnswerIndividuals with this disorder cannot comprehend spoken or written words or symbols.
Individuals cannot understand verbal directions or respond to sensory stimuli.
What is agnosia? -Answer- Agnosia is a category of defecits where the patient lacks
recognition of familiar object as perceived by the senses. This could involve all the
senses and manifests with problems in body scheme, such as somatognosia and
anosognosia.
What is somatognosia? -Answer- Lack of awareness of one's body parts.
What is anosognosia? -Answer- Anosognosia: Transient, severe form of neglect.
Patient does not recognize the presence or severity of his paralysis.
What is prosopagnosia? -Answer- Face blindness. Inability to identify an individual by
their face.
What is visual-spacial agnosia? -Answer- Affects perception of spatial relationship
between objects, or between objects and self.
What is auditory agnosia? -Answer- Inability to recognize sounds, words and nonwords.
What is visual agnosia? -Answer- Lack of ability to recognize common objects and
demonstrate their use in an activity.
What is apraxia? -Answer- Loss of the ability to execute or carry out learned (familiar)
movements, despite having the desire and the physical ability to perform the
movements
What is ideomotor apraxia? -Answer- Inability to imitate gestures or perform a
purposeful motor task on command, even though the patient is able to fully understand
the idea or concept of a task. This is often associated with left hemisphere damage.What is ideational apraxia? -Answer- The disability of carrying out complex sequential
motor acts. Caused by a disruption of the conception, rather than execution. (Loss of
tool function knowledge)
What is constructional apraxia? -Answer- Unable to produce designs in 2 or three
dimensions by copying, drawing, or constructing.
What is oral apraxia? -Answer- Difficulty in forming and organizing intelligable words,
though the musculature required to do so is in tact. Differs from disarthria because no
muscles are affected and speech is not slurred.
What is a neuroma? -Answer- A ______ is an unorganized mass of nerve fibers
resulting from a laceration (either surgical or accidental) or amputation in which the
nerve regrows in unorganized bundles. Results in sharp, radiating pain.
By what age does an infant sit erect and unsupported for several minutes? -Answer- By
8 to 9 months, an infant can sit erect and unsupported.
What is reflex sympathetic dystrophy? -Answer- __________ is caused by trauma, postsurgical inflammation, infection, or laceration to an extremity. Characterized by pain,
edema, shiny skin, blotchy skin, and excessive sweating or dryness.
What is another name for reflex sympathetic dystrophy? -Answer- Complex regional
pain syndrome.
What is a symmetric tonic neck reflex? -Answer- When an infant's neck is extended, the
elbows extend and the hips flex. When the head is lowered, the elbows flex and the hips
extend.
What is a bunny hop pattern? -Answer- A bunny hop pattern is a result of symmetric
tonic neck reflex utilization in order to elicit movement at the hips and elbows for
mobility
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