Naming Flashcards
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During MoCA administration, the examiner notices the patient hesitates 20 seconds before correctly naming the camel. How is this scored?
Answer: 1 point — correct regardless of response time
The MoCA Naming subtest has no time limit; any correct response earns full credit regardless of latency.
A patient with Alzheimer's disease fails the MoCA Naming task. Which pathophysiological process most directly explains this deficit?
Answer: Atrophy of temporal lobe structures involved in semantic memory
Temporal lobe atrophy in Alzheimer's disease disrupts the semantic networks needed to retrieve specific object names.
A bilingual patient names the rhinoceros correctly in Spanish but not in English during an English-language MoCA. How should the clinician handle this?
Answer: Consider accepting the response and noting it, or administer a validated version in the patient's dominant language
Best practice is to administer the MoCA in the patient's dominant language; cross-language correct responses should be noted and interpreted cautiously.
Which of the following errors on the MoCA Naming task is an example of a semantic paraphasia?
Answer: Calling the lion a 'tiger'
A semantic paraphasia is a substitution with a related word from the same category, such as calling a lion a 'tiger.'
In populations with limited formal education, MoCA Naming scores may be artificially depressed primarily because:
Answer: Lower-frequency animal names may not have been learned in limited schooling contexts
Lexical knowledge of specific animal names like 'rhinoceros' correlates with vocabulary exposure gained through education.
The MoCA Naming subtest contributes how many points to the total MoCA score of 30?
Answer: 3 points
Naming is worth a maximum of 3 points out of the total 30-point MoCA score.
Which condition would most likely cause a patient to FAIL the MoCA Naming task while passing all other subtests normally?
Answer: Isolated anomic aphasia
Anomic aphasia selectively impairs word retrieval while leaving other cognitive domains relatively preserved.