Cognitive skills - Attention

Question 1

Cognition and Mental Health

Answer 1

Common in many psychiatric disabilities

• Obvious vs. Subtle
• Phases of illness

Question 2

Obvious vs. Subtle

Answer 2

Dementia vs. Depression

Question 3

Phases of illness

Answer 3

Acute vs. non acute

Question 4

Impaired cognition

Answer 4

A barrier to occupational performance

Question 5

Components of cognition

Answer 5

Attention
Memory
Executive Function

Question 6

Attention

Answer 6

Automatic processing
Controlled processing
Selective attention
Divided attention
Vigilance

Question 7

Attention definition

Answer 7

Uses cognitive resources to take in the information to complete a task

Question 8

Automatic processing

Answer 8

Taking in stimuli without actively noticing; usually familiar tasks.

Question 9

Three criteria for automatic processing

Answer 9

1. Unintentional
2. Without conscious awareness
3. Does not interfere with other mental activity

Question 10

Controlled processing

Answer 10

Requires focus

Can become automatic overtime with practice

Question 11

Selective Attention

Answer 11

• Sorting out and focusing on relevant stimuli.\
• Psychosis may interfere with selective attention

Filter theory
Attenuation theory

Question 12

Filter theory

Answer 12

Limit to the amount of information that a person can attend to at any one given time, so individual use a filter to determine what is important

Question 13

Attenuation theory

Answer 13

unattended information is not blocked but turned down

Question 14

Divided attention

Answer 14

Multitasking

Difficult for people with attention problem

Question 15

Vigilance

Answer 15

The ability to sustain attention over time

Can become less over time

Can be difficult if the stimulus is hard to detect