Ch. 4 Assessing Cognition Flashcards
True or False. The type and extent of impairment is related to the location of the injury and the severity of the injury.
True
How many categories can ATTENTION be divided?
5
Name the 5 different categories of ATTENTION
- alertness
- Sustained attention (vigilance)
- selective attention
- alternating attention
- Divided Attention
How many kinds of alertness exist?
2 types
Name the 2 kinds of alertness that exist?
Tonic Alertness and Phasic Alertness
The readiness to respond over long time intervals (usually not tested but estimated during interview with fam. reports) is:
Tonic Alertness
What is Tonic Alertness?
The readiness to respond over long time intervals (usually not tested but estimated during interview with fam. reports) is:
Alertness that requires rapid responses
Phasic Alertness
Describe Phasic Alertness
it requires rapid responses, and it can be tested with Reaction-type testing (pushing a button, etc.)
What is sustained attention?
the ability to maintain a steady response during nonstop and repetitive activity
It can be tested by doing strings of computer presented auditory or visual stimuli (#s, letters, sounds). Patient needs to indicate when they hear or see a target.
Sustained Attention
What is another term for Sustained Attention?
Vigilance
It can be assessed through cancellation tasks
Selective Attention
It can be assessed when target to be cancelled out changes. EG. #6 in one line, letter B in next line)
Alternating Attention
How can Alternating Attention be assessed?
It can be assessed when target to be cancelled out changes. EG. #6 in one line, letter B in next line)
In this task, you need to retain information while performing another task
Divided attention
Describe Divided Attention
you need to retain information while performing another task
Uses maps, everyday materials, telephone books etc.
Attention in Daily life
Memory has been divided into how many stages?
3 stages
Name the 3 different stages in Memory
- Sensory register or memory
- Immediate Memory
- Long term memory
Where incoming information is retained
Sensory register or memory
Also called short-term memory or retention-span
Immediate memory
Memory of large capacity is known as
Long term memory
what is long term memory?
Memory of large capacity where information is stored.
