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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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Defined Psychology

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study of the mind

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Define clinical neuropsychology

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looks at lesions in the brain

something wrong/ not working in the brain

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Define experimental neuropsychology

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typical development

behavioral outcomes

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4
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Define trephination

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drilling holes in the skull

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what was/is trephination used for

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was used for letting spirits out

is not used for relieving pressure

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what is the brain hypothesis

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the brain is the thing closest to heaven so that is where out knowledge is

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what is the cardiac hypothesis

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knowledge, emotion, cognitive processes are all in the heart because it changes with how you feel

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what was the function of the brain in the cardiac hypothesis

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it was a cooling center for blood

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who made the brain hypothesis

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Hippocrates

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Who made the cardiac hypothesis

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Aristotle

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what is the ventricular localization hypothesis

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the ventricles were broken up into three chambers:

1 for memory, thinking, and imagination

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12
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who made the ventricular localization hypothesis

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Galen

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13
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What is the cell doctrine

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brain has spaces and that is where soul is and functions occur

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who made the cell doctrine

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Leonardo de Vinci

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15
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What is the Localization Theory

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certain parts of the brain control certain parts of the body

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What is Phrenology

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a drawing of the brain with parts labelled as what they control

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what is craniology

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bumps and grooves tell us which parts of the brain are developed and underdeveloped

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Aphasia

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loss of ability to use or understand speech

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19
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Fluent aphasia

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Can produce meaningful sentences but cannot understand them

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20
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what is agnosia

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inability to understand sensations and recognize things

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21
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Who is Pierre Flourens

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came up with equipotentiality

did the Ablation experiment

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What was the Ablation experiment and what did it lead to

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would destroy parts of bird brains to see what areas were specialized
lead to equipotentiality

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23
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what is equipotential

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any part of the brain has equal potential to control a function

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24
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Who was Karl Lashley

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discovered Principle of Mass Action

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25
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What is the principle of mass action

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how much you take out of the brain in proportional to the amount of damage in motor and behavior function

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What did Hughlings Jackson make

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Jackson’s Alternative Model

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27
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what is Jackson’s Alternative model

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there is localization of basic brain function but need may parts to work together for more difficult functions

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28
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Who was Alexander Luria

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Made Luria’s Functional Model

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29
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What is Luria’s Functional Model

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the brain is divided into 3 components:
Unit 1- brain stem- arousal and keeping you alive
Unit 2- back 1/2 of brain- input and processing of outside world
Unit 3- frontal lobe- planning and thinking

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30
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Pluripotentiality

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brain areas may be responsible for 1 function or multiple functions

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31
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Who is Wilder Penfield

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one of first to put electrical stimulation on brain

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32
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What is the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological battery

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a collection of tests done on patients with psychological damage

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33
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what makes up the central nervous system

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brain and spinal cord

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34
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what makes up the peripheral nervous system

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everything but spinal cord

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35
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Sensory neurons

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asacending neurons

collect info from environment and send to brain

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36
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Interneurons

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processing neurons

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37
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Motor neurons

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response neuron

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38
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bipolar neurons

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interneurons

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39
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unipolar neurons

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sensory neuron

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40
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multipolar neurons

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motor neurons

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41
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what are glial cells

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nerve glue

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42
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what is the function of microglia

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scavengers- clean out area around nervous system

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43
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function of astrocytes

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parent role-

structural support

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44
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function of oligodendrocytes

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make myelin sheaths in CNS

can do several

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45
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function of shwann cells

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make myelin sheaths in PNS

can do one

46
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function of dopamine

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reward and pleasure

47
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function of serotonin

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mood and emotion

48
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what type of neurotransmitter is Gaba

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inhibitory amino acid

49
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what type of neurotransmitter is Glutamate

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excitatory amino acid

50
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Gogli stain

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shows the structure of neurons

done on dead tissue

51
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Nissl Stain

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dye of cell bodies to see how many there are

52
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myelin staining

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dyes the myelin sheaths

53
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brain slice to view from top

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axial/horizontal

54
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brain slice to view from front or back

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coronal/frontal

55
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brain slice to view from side

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sagital

56
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X-Rays

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depths and density

brain tissue doesnst give enough density info

57
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Air encephalogram

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put air in fluid filled spaces to get a better image then take x-ray

58
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Computed transaxial tomography (CT)

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take several layers of pic to create 3D picture

59
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Angiography

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looks at blood vessels

60
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what does hyperdensity look like and what might it mean

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white color

tumor or blood

61
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what does hypodensity look like and what might it mean

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dark spaces

fluid filled

62
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electroencephalography (EEG)

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test brain waves

63
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evoked potential

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shows what occurs in the brain right after a stimulus

64
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SPECT test

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areas most active are areas using most resources

look at which parts are active when doing a task

65
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PET

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introduces readioactive isotopes to the brain

shows function information

66
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MRI

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structural exam with a magnet

67
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fMRI

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functional MRI

68
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Lumbar puncture

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look at color of cerebrospinal fluid

69
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neurologic examination looks at what

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evaluate/treat neurological disorders

70
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neuropsychological evaluations look at what

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look at executive functions

71
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psychometrics

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the ability to asses psychological traits and processes

72
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standardized test

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administer tests to large sample so have something to compare future examples to

73
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validity

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how well is measures what supposed to

74
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reliability

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how consistently it measure the same thing

75
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how to stop false positives

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cut-off scores to decide where that person will really fall

76
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base rates

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explain how common a condition is within a specific tested population

77
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crystalized functions

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facts

78
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fluid functions

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abstract thinking

79
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standard battery approach

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fixed

everything is the same every time

80
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process approach

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hypothesis

tailor assessments to individual and the referral

81
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orientation

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person, place time, body

82
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ways to assess orientation

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where are you
what is sthe date
can you blink your eyes

83
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specific tests to assess orientation

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Glasgo Coma Scale

Mini mental status exam

84
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What is sensation and perception

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detecting, knowing

85
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specific tests for sensation and perception

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Halstead-Reitan Battery

Skin writing recognition

86
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Attention and concentration

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enables our awareness of environment or our specific response

87
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ways to test attention ad concentration

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Say the days of the week in reverse
Digit span
Digit symbol
Alberts test

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What is the digit span

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given a list of numbers and have to remember and write them down

89
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what is the digit symbol

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given numbers and symbols code, have to go in order

90
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what is alberts test

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have to cross out lines

91
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motor function

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voluntary control over upper and lower body movements

92
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ways to test motor function

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copying
grip strength
finger tapping
grooved peg board

93
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visuospatial

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assessing spatial processing of visual sense

94
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how to assess visuospatial

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Identifying
matching
block design
bennder gestalt
Rey-Osterrieth
95
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What is the Bender Gestalt test

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copy an image

96
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What is the Rey-Osterrieth test

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shown an image then taken away and have to remember how to draw it

97
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tests for language skills

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defining/naming
COWA
Token Tasl

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what is COWA

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give a letter or category and come up with as many words as you can

99
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Intrusions

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when a word gets into the list that doesn’t fit

100
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what is an example of an intrusion

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phlem in an F group

101
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What is the Token Task

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move tokens as told

102
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Tests for memory

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recall/recognition

Wechsler Memory Scale IV

103
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tests for abstract thinking and problem solving

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Trail making test A and B
Tower of London-Drexel University Test
WCSI- WI card sorting test

104
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what does testing for malingering find

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See if symptoms are presenting as they should or if people are lying

105
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Deficit measurement

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comparing patients test scores to the standardized “normal”

106
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Pattern analysis

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assess relationships among test scores

107
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EPSP- excitatory post-synaptic potentials

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bring closer to threshold

108
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IPSI- inhibitory post-synaptic potentials

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bring further away from threshold

109
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what enters the neuron during action potential

A

Na+

110
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how does the neuron repolarize

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3 sodium out, 2 sodium in

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