chapter 3

Question 1

Balint Syndrome

Answer 1

bilateral superior occipital, parietal lesions Dash have difficulty reaching for objects directly, but can recognize them in other words optic ataxia 

Question 2

automaticity

Answer 2

over learned, refers to behavior routines that are carried out quickly, effortlessly, accurately, and with a little forethought 

Question 3

I effortful processing

Answer 3

Refers to mental operations, carried out with effort, planning, careful attention to proximate conditions – online
example, striking out all the letter is preceded by the letter, X in a novel, cancellation task, reciting digits backward, driving to an unfamiliar location, remembering what you did last Tuesday, learning, a new work skill

-more sensitive to brain injury or dysfunction then our task calling on automatic response systems 

Question 4

habit system – automatic response patterns

Answer 4

Likely have a Nuro anatomical base Dash evidence that sub cortical areas, particularly the basal ganglia, for an integrated habit system with respect to motor skills

Question 5

Brain reserve hypothesis

Answer 5

A.k.a. cerebral reserve – passive threshold, model, 
Refers to the brains, ability to absorb insult, and potentially recover 
it hinges primarily on the brains, physical health prior to insult or disease onset 

Question 6

cognitive reserve hypothesis 

Answer 6

efficiency model
education and enriched experience can increase cerebral reserve in a relatively protective against the expression of symptoms, following brain, disease, or injury
– Higher cognitive reserve, does not prevent dementia, or impairments following TBI, but I can modify the functional and clinical expression of such conditions
– It’s an efficiency model, because it refers to the mines resistance to brain damage due to the presence of more efficient, synaptic networks, or pre-existing cognitive abilities,
– Quality, education, healthy, lifestyle, variables, learning, history are good examples, 

Question 7

executive function theory

Answer 7

One or more general purpose, processors control, domain, specific, or specialized mental operations to guide attention and action 

Question 8

alexia without agraphia

Answer 8

Is a disconnection syndrome, typically a result from a lesion in the splenium of the corpus callosum, disconnecting the posterior language area in the parietal lobe (angular gyrus/super marginal gyrus) from the left hemisphere motor area in the frontal lobe 

Question 9

Spearman’s G

Answer 9

Domain general theory Dash and its original conception, Spearman’s G referred to a general, over arcing factor of intelligence, thought to be a product of the entire brain
– Modern conceptualizations of intelligence, are there for more representative of domain – /localization notions, where the concept of G is an implicit, overall abstraction, representing the punitive combinative quality of the individual, discreet functions