Clinical Neuropsychology & Health Psychology Flashcards
What is cognitive screening?
What’s happenin? Can happen anywhere.
Complex attention?
When it’s major, it’s hard to be in a busy room and hard to do simple tasks. Attention, processing speed.
Executive function?
When it’s major, need to focus on one thing at a time and rely on others to make decision. Planning, decisions, working memory.
Learning + Memory
When it’s major, repeating yourself in a convo, can’t remember short list.
Language (major vs minor)
When it’s major, “that thing”, “you know what I mean”, can’t remember names
Language (major vs minor)
When it’s major, “that thing”, “you know what I mean”, can’t remember names
Perceptual motor
Seeing something and knowing something about it. Visual perception.
Social cognition
Recognizing emotions, theory of mind
Health psychology
Promoting health, not fixing a problem
Health protective behavior
Doesn’t need to actually work, going to gym + bad eating, anything people do to promote health
Primary and secondary appraisal
Primary: Assessing harm, how much will this impact me? Will I still get into law school?
Secondary: Do I have the means to deal with this? Do I have tutors to help me study?
Approach vs avoidance in health promotion
Approach: programs/campaigns on how to live a healthier life
Avoidance: horrible things that could happen if you don’t change behavior (eg. smoke packs)
