4 COGNITIVE COMPONENT Flashcards
COGNITION
Conscious and unconscious information processing.
Ability to process and act upon information.
Uses and processes information from senses and perception.
Determined by:
Genetics.
Environment.
Health of our CNS.
GLOBAL MENTAL FUNCTIONS
Consciousness.
Orientation.
Sleep.
Temperament.
Personality.
Energy.
Drive.
SPECIFIC MENTAL FUNCTIONS
Attention.
Memory.
Thought.
Judgment.
Time Management.
Problem Solving.
Decision Making.
Language.
Emotional Regulation.
Experience of Self.
COGNITIVE EVALUATION (5)
- Orientation.
- Attention.
- Memory.
- Executive functioning.
- Problem Solving and Reasoning.
- ORIENTATION
Person, place, time.
- ATTENTION (3 parts)
- Getting attention.
- Holding attention.
- Releasing attention.
- MEMORY
Ability to retain and recall information.
- EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING
Occurs in the frontal lobes.
Includes: insight, judgement, planning, flexibility.
- REASONING AND PROBLEM SOLVING
Abstract thinking, high-level thinking, outside the box.
Problem Solving: requires previous cognitive components.
Reasoning: planning and evaluating.
TOPOGRAPHICAL ORIENTATION
Determining the position of self in environment, objects and settings.
RECOGNITION
Recognizing familiar objects or people.
SEQUENCING
Placing information, concepts and actions in order.
CATEGORIZATION
Identifying similarities and differences.
LEARNING
Acquiring new concepts and behaviours.
GENERALIZATION
Applying newly learnt concepts or behaviors to new environments/situations.
