Exam 2 Part 4

Question 1

What condition is similar to someone having an attention deficit?

Answer 1

ADHD

Question 2

What are the 3 types of memory?

Answer 2

Short-term, long-term, prospective

Question 3

Memory that includes remembering that something is going to happen in the future

Answer 3

Prospective

Question 4

Awareness of who you are, where you are at, what time it is

Answer 4

Orientation

Question 5

Includes motivation to do something

Answer 5

Executive function

Question 6

Patient reacts to physician poking their feet; don’t know if it is conscious act or reflexive

Answer 6

Vegetative state

Question 7

Patient reacts to sensory stimuli (favorite music, scent); indication that there is some brain activity

Answer 7

Minimally conscious state

Question 8

Why do some patients have induced comas?

Answer 8

Let the brain rest

Question 9

Type of memory that can be measured; working memory

Answer 9

Short-term memory assessment

Question 10

Type of memory that can be from a long time ago and stored

Answer 10

Long-term memory assessment

Question 11

**What are the 2 main reasons why it is difficult to have a standardized assessment for someone who has experienced a TBI

Answer 11

Not all TBI affect the same parts of the brain (diffuse axonal injury), person is uniquely different

Question 12

Assessment of a TBI depends on what 3 things?

Answer 12

Age, education level, severity of deficit

Question 13

Assessed through biographical questions during interview

Answer 13

Long-term memory assessment

Question 14

Able to draw a previously presented stimuli

Answer 14

Visual memory assessment

Question 15

Presented unrelated string of words for repetition

Answer 15

Immediate recall assessment