Cognition and Emotion

Question 1

Cognition is

Answer 1

knowledge base and high cortical processing

Question 2

Behaviour

Answer 2

everything that the organism does

Question 3

Emotion

Answer 3

inferred behavioural state

Question 4

What are the lobes of the brain? what are their main functions?

Answer 4

Frontal –> High Level cognition and motor
Temporal –> Audition, language, music, memory, emotion
Parietal –> Somatic-Visuospatial Representations
Occipital –> Vision

Question 5

Orbitofrontal Cortex is in charge of

Answer 5

Recognition and expression of emotion

Question 6

Limbic System includes

Answer 6

Olfactory Bulbs
Cingulate Gyrus
Thalamus
Hypothalamus
Mammilary Bodies
Hippocampus
Amigdala

Question 7

What is cognitive appraisal?

Answer 7

knowledge and thinking affects our perception of events and memories

Question 8

What is high level cognition?

Answer 8

Executive Functioning

Question 9

What does the frontal lobe does?

Answer 9

Production of language (motor)
Motor Control
High Level Cognition

Question 10

What is a leucotomy?

Answer 10

Severance of the connection between lobes

Question 11

Define Working Memory?

Answer 11

use of information recently given. Can be manipulated in some way

Question 12

What artery supplies the dorsolateral pre-frontal Cortex?

Answer 12

MCA

Question 13

What artery supplies the medial pre-frontal Cortex?

Answer 13

ACA

Question 14

if the medial pre-frontal Cortex is damaged how does the patient present?

Answer 14

Akinetic Mutism –> patient does not talk as there is ‘no need to’

Question 15

What does the medial pre-frontal Cortex do? what if damaged?

Answer 15

Emotional tone and motivational interference. IF damaged can cause problems with self-awareness

Question 16

What does the orbitofrontal pre-frontal Cortex do?

Answer 16

impulsivity and emotion recognition and response

Question 17

At what age does the decline in executive functioning starts?

Answer 17

50 yo

Question 18

What is executive dysfunction?

Answer 18

problems arising with damage to part of pathway communicating with prefrontal cortex

Question 19

What is perceveration? is it a good thing?

Answer 19

Continue to do something that does not work expecting it to somehow work

Question 20

What is the Dorsolateral prefrontal Cortex in charge of?

Answer 20

Set shifting, goal directed purposeful behaviour

Question 21

What is neuropsychological testing good for?

Answer 21

testing Dorsolateral prefrontal Cortex

Question 22

What is cognitive rehab?

Answer 22

the application of techniques and procedures and the implementation of supports to allow individuals with cognitive impairment to function as safely, productively and independently as possible in their environment

Question 23

What are the two main cognitive interventions for cognitive rehab?

Answer 23

Environmental modifications

Compensatory Strategies

Question 24

Environmental modifications in cognitive rehab are

Answer 24

Change in physical and social environment to facilitate greater independence and to reduce the impact of a person’s cognitive and behavioural difficulties

Question 25

What are compensatory strategies?

Answer 25

using other abilities or behaviours available to the patient to make up for what is lacking

Question 26

Compensatory strategies includes

Answer 26

Internal Strategies

External Strategies