Foundations of Human Communication Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Foundations of Human Communication explores the fundamental principles and processes that shape human interaction. This course examines how people use symbols, language, nonverbal cues, and technology to share meaning, form relationships, and navigate cultural contexts. Students will study key communication models, barriers to effective communication, and the role of perception in interpersonal exchanges, gaining insight into both verbal and nonverbal dynamics. Through theoretical frameworks and practical exercises, this course equips students with foundational knowledge and skills essential for successful communication in personal, academic, and professional settings.
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Human Communication Disorders 8th Edition by Noma B. Anderson
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Human Communication Disorders: a Philosophy and Practice of Science in Service
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Q1) Incidence refers to the number of new cases identified each year,prevalence refers to
A)The types of cases identified each year
B)The number of new cases who have recovered
C)The number of existing cases in a population
D)The number of unusual cases
Answer: C
Q2) Evidence-based practice refers to the application of
A)Research to clinical decision making
B)Clinical expertise to clinical decision making
C)Clinical experience to clinical decision making
D)All of the above
Answer: D
Q3) The number of Americans in the United States with communication disorders is estimated to be
A)100 million
B)46 million
C)50 million
D)1 million
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Development of Communication, language, and Speech
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Q1) The word "jumping" has free and bound morphemes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The three components of language include
A)Competence,performance and understanding
B)Form,content and rhyme
C)Form,content and use
D)Paralanguage,body language and proxemics
Answer: C
Q3) A language milestone characteristic of the toddler stage of language development
A)Relies on prosody to discern individual speech sounds
B)Acquires 100+ words
C)Uses fast mapping
D)Understands jokes
Answer: B
Q4) The word "jump" has voiced and voiceless consonants.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The Biology and Physics of Speech
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Q1) The respiratory system
A)Shapes air stream into speech sounds
B)Provides the essential air supply
C)Generates the sound
D)Acts as a resonator
E)A and D
Answer: B
Q2) The laryngeal system
A)Shapes air stream into speech sounds
B)Provides the essential air supply
C)Generates the sound
D)Acts as a resonator
E)A and D
Answer: C
Q3) Vocal folds vibrating at a rate above produce sounds with a
A)Low pitch
B)A very low pitch
C)A somewhat low pitch
D)High pitch
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Multicultural and Multilingual Considerations
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Q1) Accent
A)Phonological and vocal characteristics of a spoken language derived from geographical and foreign language influences
B)Variations in rules for the form,content and use of a spoken language derived from historical,social,regional and cultural influences
C)Variations in communication that deviate from the speech community's standard D)All of the above
Q2) Vernacular
A)Informal varieties of a dialect
B)Formal varieties of a dialect
C)Variations in written language
D)School language
Q3) Bilingual individuals control parts or all of two languages.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Standardized tests may give the inaccurate impression that a communication disorder exists.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Genetics: Basis for Development and Disorders
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Q1) Genes
A)A set of 46 rod-like structures in the nucleus of a cell composed of DNA and protein
B)Specific units of DNA that determine and transmit hereditary characteristics from parent to offspring
C)Carry DNA's instructions for protein formation
D)Structural,functional or metabolic abnormalities
Q2) Syndrome
A)A recognizable pattern of abnormalities that indicate a particular trait or disease
B)The visible pattern of an organism's chromosomes
C)Slight variations in our genes that contribute to individual differences
D)The sum of all genes,estimated to contain 30,000 genes
Q3) Gene expression refers to the passing on of traits from parents to children.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Specific genes have been associated with deafness and Alzheimer's disease.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Articulatory and Phonological Disorders
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Q1) Emily's speech is very unintelligible.Her mother understands less than half of what she says,and her preschool teacher rarely understands her speech.Emily is 3 years old,so most of the errors she produces would be considered age appropriate according to normative data.Of the sounds expected of a child Emily's age,only one sound,/p/,is stimulable.Many of Emily's error productions are inconsistently produced.Emily passed the hearing screening,and the results of an examination of her oral mechanism and oral motor skills revealed normal structure and function.Emily's case history did not suggest the presence of an organic etiology resulting in the unintelligible speech.Emily is doing well in preschool but her mother is concerned about her speech.Which factors most likely prompted the decision to enroll Emily in speech therapy?
A)Social and academic performance in preschool
B)Poor speech intelligibility
C)Lack of stimulability
D)Passing score on the hearing screening
E)B and C
Q2) Learning to read and write places extreme constraints on phonological development.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Stuttering and Other Disorders of Fluency
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Q1) Researchers decide to determine the prevalence of fluency disorders in the states of Maryland,Virginia,North Carolina,South Carolina,and Georgia.Previous studies suggest that researchers are most likely to find that the more frequently occurring cases will be persons with a
A)Stuttering disorder
B)Cluttering disorder
C)Acquired organic stuttering disorder
D)Psychogenic stuttering disorder
Q2) Approximately 10% of the population present with a stuttering disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Elise is a 6 year old who exhibits whole-word and part-word repetitions usually when producing nouns and verbs.These repetitions increase when Elise is excited and she has been heard to refer to herself as a stutterer.Yet,Elise is not concerned about her speech.Elise is demonstrating
A)Phase 1 in the developmental stages of stuttering
B)Phase 2 in the developmental stages of stuttering
C)Phase 3 in the developmental stages of stuttering
D)Phase 4 in the developmental stages of stuttering
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Chapter 8: Voice Disorders
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Q1) Joseph smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for 25 years.He also consumed 2-3 packs of beer on weekends routinely since his early 20's.Now at age 50,he contacts his physician with complaints of a chronic cough,difficulty swallowing and hoarseness of voice.Two weeks later,Joseph has been scheduled for surgery to remove his larynx and has been referred to a speech-language pathologist for an evaluation and probable vocal rehabilitation because of a diagnosis of A)Vocal edema
B)Vocal polyp
C)Vocal fold nodules
D)Laryngeal carcinoma
Q2) Speech-language pathologists should always inform physicians of a voice client's medical diagnosis before beginning therapy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Voice disorders occur only in adults.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Cleft Lip and Palate and Other Craniofacial Disorders
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Q1) Justin was born in Chicago with a bilateral cleft lip and palate.You read his assessment report from the early intervention center that he has been attending since 15 months of age.You read that Jason has undergone several surgeries to repair his cleft lip and palate and you most likely find that
A)Justin's first surgery involved repairing his cleft lip and was performed after the age of 10 months
B)Justin's first surgery involved repairing his cleft palate and was performed before the age of 10 months
C)Justin's first surgery involved repairing his cleft lip and was performed before the age of 10 months.
D)Justin's second surgery involved repairing his cleft lip and was performed after the age of 10 months
Q2) The prevalence rates for cleft lip/palate vary among boys and girls.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Cleft lip/palate is most likely to occur during the last trimester of pregnancy.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 10: Neurogenic Disorders of Speech in Children and Adults
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Q1) Shaun's speech is unintelligible.All aspects of his speech production are impaired including articulation,resonance,phonation and respiration.His speech is characterized by imprecise consonant articulation,monopitch,reduced stress,harsh voice quality,strangled voice quality,pitch breaks and hypernasality.Shaun most likely is exhibiting
A)Spastic dysarthria
B)Ataxic dysarthria
C)Hypokinetic dysarthria
D)Hyperkinetic dysarthria
Q2) Casey is four years old.She presents with a phonemic inventory of 5 consonants and 5 vowels,and inconsistent substitution,omission and distortion errors involving these speech sounds.The frequency of her speech sound errors increase as word length increases.She also exhibits monopitch and monoloudness.Her likely diagnosis is
A)Apraxia of speech
B)Spastic dysarthria
C)Hyopkinethic dysarthria
D)Mixed dysarthria
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Chapter 11: Developmental Language Impairment During
the Preschool Years
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Q1) Significant expressive language delay rarely interferes with social development and academic achievement.
A)True
B)False
Q2) First words are usually adjectives that are 1-2 syllables in length and contain speech sounds such as /f,v,s,z/.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Two-year old Carrie is demonstrating typical development.Her parents report that she makes statements such as
A)"Up Daddy"
B)"No I don't want to go"
C)"My baby"
D)All but b
Q4) Most children understand more words than they produce; hence their expressive language skills are better than their receptive language skills.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Language Disabilities in School-Age Children and Youth
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Q1) Twelve-year old Kevin's conversations contain few specific nouns and many indefinite words and pronouns.He uses the nicknames "Buddy" to refer to all of his friends and uses gestures often when talking.He is doing poorly in school.He is repeating the 5<sup>th</sup> grade and has yet to pass a single test in language arts,social studies or science.The speech-language pathologist decides to investigate the hypothesis that Kevin is experiencing a disorder of
A)Sentence comprehension and processing
B)Word retrieval
C)Grammatical rule use
D)Phonological production
Q2) James heard the sentence "the player who replaced the team captain scored the winning point" and concluded that the 'team captain' scored the winning point.James is exhibiting difficulty with
A)Comprehending morphological rules signaled by phonological forms
B)Processing language meaning signaled by communicative functions
C)Processing relational meanings signaled by grammatical forms
D)All of the above
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Chapter 13: From Emergent Literacy to Literacy: Development and Disorders
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Q1) There is a reciprocal relationship between oral language and literacy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most children demonstrate emergent literacy skills by age 5.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Vocabulary and knowledge of story structure are critical to literacy development.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Children with language disorders will acquire literacy skills if exposure to print through everyday natural experiences occurs frequently.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Children with delayed language development in their preschool years show significantly higher incidence of reading problems than do children without language problems.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Aphasia and Related Acquired Language Disorders
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Q1) Aphasia treatments seldom produce full recovery.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Bill also demonstrates slight weakness of his arm and leg on one side.Since his TBI was confined to the left hemisphere,we can expect that his diagnosis is
A)Right hemiplegia
B)Right hemiparesis
C)Left hemiparesis
D)Left hemiplegia
Q3) Jones refers his patient for a speech and language evaluation because he presents with confusion and impaired communication skills.His patient had a stroke 72 hours ago that produced a lesion in the left temporal,parietal and frontal lobes.As the speech-language pathologist,you find that the patient produces only 4 stereotypic nonsense phrases in his attempts to communicate.You plan your assessment protocol based on the hypothesis that the patient is demonstrating
A)Wernicke's aphasia
B)Anomic aphasia
C)Broca's aphasia
D)Global aphasia
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Chapter 15: Augmentative and Alternative Communication
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Q1) Exemplary clinical practice promotes the concept of viewing AAC users as multi-modal communicators.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Augmentative communication strategies supplement residual speech,while alternative communication strategies replace speech.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The success of AAC depends on the matching of communication strategies to the needs of the individual and creating an environment that supports the use of AAC.
A)True
B)False
Q4) To teach the scanning method of symbol selection
A)Begin with partner-assisted selection,then move to auditory scanning
B)Begin with auditory scanning,then move to visual scanning
C)Begin with row-column selection,then progress to linear selection
D)Begin with linear selection,then progress to row-column selection
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Chapter 16: Swallowing: Process and Disorders
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Q1) The speech-language pathologist wants to measure treatment outcomes for patients learning to use the Mendolsohn maneuver to manage their risk of aspiration.She decides to recruit participants for her study from the Longview Rehabilitation Center.The speech-language pathologist will probably be most successful with completing her study if she plans her investigation using a
A)Class I methodology
B)Class II methodology
C)Class III methodology
D)Class IV methodology
Q2) Normal swallowing takes place on the inspiration phase of the respiration cycle.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The normal swallow consists of two phases,oral and pharyngeal.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Studies have shown that persons over the age of 70 take longer to swallow than persons under the age of 70.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Hearing and Hearing Disorders
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Q1) In general,the greater the amount of sensorineural loss,the poorer the speech discrimination abilities.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Patients with sensorineural hearing loss are considered better candidates than patients with conductive hearing loss for hearing aids.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 0 dB HL refers to the absence of sound.
A)True
B)False
Q4) When working with special populations such as medically fragile patients and patients with mental retardation,special techniques are needed to measure their hearing.These techniques often include
A)Speech detection threshold measures
B)Air conduction pure tone testing
C)Bone conduction testing
D)Tympanometry
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Chapter 18: Audiologic Rehabilitation
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Q1) Hearing aids like eyeglasses restore normal hearing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Bone conduction hearing aids are most appropriate for persons concerned with the cosmetic features of the aid.
A)True
B)False
Q3) BTE hearing aids are the most flexible and therefore are appropriate for a wide range of hearing loss and configuration.
A)True
B)False
Q4) As an audiologist for the Lincoln County Health Department,your clinical duties include
A)Evaluate speech and language skills of preschoolers
B)Teach speechreading as part of an audiologic rehabilitation program
C)Prescribe and dispense hearing aids
D)Measure hearing abilities and diagnose hearing disorders
E)All but A
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