Chapters 15,16,19, and 28 Flashcards
Within executive functions, which assessments assess planning, organizational skills, and initiation?
-Osterrieth Complex Figure-Copy
- The Maze Test
Within the executive functions, which assessments assess flexible thinking and attention shifting?
-Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST)
-Trail Making Test
-Letter Fluency: FAS
They would give you a letter and you would give words that started with that letter.
Which neurological assessment assesses language?
Letter Fluency (FAS) test
Boston Naming Test
What neurological assessments assess memory?
The WAIS-IV subsets include…
-Digit Span (Backward and Sequencing)
-Letter-Number Sequencing (LNS)
What are the symptoms of frontal Lobe lesions?
Disturbance in motor function which is the inability to make a variety of movements.
Fine movements are also affected along with speed and strength.
Impaired sexual behavior
Impacted by the orbital-frontal lobe.
Impaired social behavior
Fluid intelligence
The capacity to reason and use information to solve problems. This is less dependent on education. This tends to decline with age.
Crystallized intelligence
Knowledge and skills that are dependent on education.
What lobes are associated with language?
Temporal and parietal
Global aphasia
The impairment in three functions which are…
-Fluency
-Comprehension
-Repetition
Conduction aphasia
Lesions to the peri-Sylvian area. This is the impairment in repetition.
Transcortical aphasia
Damage that involves other language cortical areas such as fluency and comprehension.
Difficulty with naming things is called…
Anomia or dysnomia
Which neuropsychological test assesses inhibitory control?
Stroop test
Lesions on the left side of the brain lead to…
the impaired recall of verbal information
Lesions on the right side of the brain show…
Impaired recall of visuospatial information
