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Final Exam - Section 2 (11/17/16) Flashcards

1
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Frontal lobe lesions:
Cognitive effects-

_________ thinking (e.g., several correct answers to a question)

A

Divergent

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Frontal lobe lesions:
Cognitive effects-

_________ - Lack of spontaneity including speech*
Cannot come up with words starting with a particular letter
_________ or the right number of letters

A
  • Divergent thinking

- spontaneously

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Frontal lobe lesions:
Cognitive effects-

Divergent thinking - _________ orbitofrontal lesion mainly

A

Left

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Frontal lobe lesions:
Cognitive effects-

Divergent thinking - Left _________ lesion mainly

A

orbitofrontal

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Frontal lobe lesions:
Cognitive effects-

Divergent thinking -
Also deficits in _________ spontaneously and in other behaviors
-Patients appear to be lethargic

A

drawing

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Frontal lobe lesions:
Cognitive effects-

Divergent thinking -
_________ -
Deficit in developing strategies for solving _________ problems

A
  • Strategy formation

- novel

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Frontal lobe lesions:

_________ -
-Perseveration on tasks such as Wisconsin card sorting task and stroop test

A

Response inhibition

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Frontal lobe lesions:

Response inhibition-
-Perseveration on tasks such as _________ card sorting task and _________ test

A
  • Wisconsin

- stroop

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Frontal lobe lesions:

Response inhibition-

  • Cannot move to a new _________ as rules change
  • Aware of deficit but cannot _________ behavior
A
  • strategy

- change

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Frontal lobe lesions:

Response inhibition-

  • Frontal lobes necessary for _________ in behavior
  • Mainly _________ damage
A
  • flexibility

- left dorsolateral

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Frontal lobe lesions:
Risk taking and rule breaking

_________ - Inability to modify responses

A

Risk taking

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Frontal lobe lesions:

Risk taking - Inability to modify responses

  • Persist in making _________ choices in Iowa gambling task
  • Orbitofrontal damage
A

-poor

-

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Frontal lobe lesions:

Risk taking - Inability to modify responses

  • Persist in making poor choices in Iowa gambling task
  • _________ damage
A

Orbitofrontal

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Frontal lobe lesions:

Rule breaking – will persist in breaking rules despite _________

A

instructions

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Frontal lobe lesions:

_________ -
-Recency memory test

A

Temporal memory

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Frontal lobe lesions:

Temporal memory -

_________ -
-Series of cards with two symbols on each presented to patient
-Test card has two symbols with ? between them
Need to identify which symbol on test card patient saw most recently

A

-Recency memory test

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Frontal lobe lesions:

Temporal lobe patients cannot recognize they have _________ the objects before but can identify which _________ they saw them

A
  • seen

- order

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Frontal lobe lesions:

Social and sexual behavior-

  • _________ cues important for appropriate behavior
A

Contextual

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Frontal lobe lesions:

Social and sexual behavior-

Frontal lobe damage causes _________ behavior that does not change with social context

A

inappropriate

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Frontal lobe lesions:

Personality changes-

_________ – damage to left orbitofrontal lobe mostly
-A change in personality that mimics depression

A

Pseudodepression

21
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Frontal lobe lesions:

Personality changes-

Pseudodepression – damage to left orbitofrontal lobe mostly
-A change in personality that mimics _________

A

depression

22
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Frontal lobe lesions:
Personality changes-

Pseudodepression – damage to _________ orbitofrontal lobe mostly

A

left

23
Q

Frontal lobe lesions:
Personality changes-

Pseudopsychopathy – damage to _________ orbitofrontal lobe mostly

A

right

24
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Frontal lobe lesions:
Personality changes-

_________ – damage to right orbitofrontal lobe mostly
-Personality change with inappropriate behavior

A

Pseudopsychopathy

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Frontal lobe lesions:
Personality changes-

_________-
Cognitive functions intact – can have intelligent conversations and are knowledgeable

A

Pseudodepression

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Frontal lobe lesions:
Personality changes-

_________-
Quiet, do not initiate conversations, apathetic, indifferent, reduced sex drive, little emotion, little interest in family members or their current situation

A

Pseudodepression –

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Frontal lobe lesions:
Personality changes-

_________-
Immature, tactless, impulsive, coarse language, promiscuous, increased motor activity

A

Pseudopsychopathy

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Frontal lobe lesions:

_________ – ability to complete problem solving tasks

A

Fluid intelligence

29
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Frontal lobe lesions:

Fluid intelligence -

  • Ability to reason quickly and think _________; a combination of reasoning and abstract thought
  • Medial and _________ prefrontal cortex
A
  • abstractly

- dorsolateral

30
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Frontal lobe lesions:

Fluid intelligence -

  • Ability to reason quickly and think abstractly; a combination of _________ and abstract thought
  • Medial and dorsolateral _________ cortex
A
  • reasoning

- prefrontal

31
Q

Frontal lobe lesions:

Disorders that influence frontal lobes-

_________ -
Impaired on frontal lobe function tests

A

Schizophrenia

32
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Frontal lobe lesions:

Disorders that influence frontal lobes-

_________ -

  • Lack of facial expression
  • Wisconsin card sorting test
  • Delayed response tasks
A

Parkinson’s patients

33
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Frontal lobe lesions:

Disorders that influence frontal lobes-

Parkinson’s patients

  • Lack of _________ expression
  • Wisconsin card sorting test
  • Delayed _________ tasks
A
  • facial

- response

34
Q

Frontal lobe lesions:

Disorders that influence frontal lobes-

_________ -

  • Wisconsin card sorting test
  • Spatial memory – delayed response tasks
  • Alcoholics
A

Korsakoff’s syndrome

35
Q

Frontal lobe lesions:

Disorders that influence frontal lobes-

Korsakoff’s syndrome-

  • Wisconsin card sorting test
  • _________ memory – delayed response tasks
  • _________
A
  • Spatial

- Alcoholics

36
Q

Frontal lobe lesions:

Disorders that influence frontal lobes-

_________-
Changes in blood flow for long periods after last drug use

A

Drug addiction

37
Q

Frontal lobe lesions:

Disorders that influence frontal lobes-

_________ -

  • Changes in neurons in orbitofrontal and medial prefrontal lobes
  • -Impulsive, compulsive
  • -Response perseveration
A

Drug addiction

38
Q

Frontal lobe lesions:

Disorders that influence frontal lobes-

Drug addiction-

  • Changes in neurons in orbitofrontal and medial _________ lobes
  • -Impulsive, compulsive
    • _________ perseveration
A
  • prefrontal

- Response

39
Q

Frontal lobe lesions:

Disorders that influence frontal lobes-

_________ -

  • Changes in neurons in prefrontal regions
  • -Temporal memory deficits
  • -Decreases in cognitive abilities with age due to long-term stress
A

Chronic stress

40
Q

Frontal lobe lesions:

Disorders that influence frontal lobes-

Chronic stress-

  • Changes in neurons in _________ regions
  • -Temporal memory deficits
  • -Decreases in cognitive abilities with age due to long-term stress
A

-prefrontal

41
Q

Frontal lobe lesions:

Disorders that influence frontal lobes-

Chronic stress-

  • Changes in neurons in prefrontal regions
    • _________ memory deficits
  • -Decreases in _________ abilities with age due to long-term stress
A
  • Temporal

- cognitive

42
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Consciousness (the state of being conscious; awareness of one’s own _________ , sensations, thoughts, surroundings etc.)

A

-existence

43
Q

Attention and consciousness -

_________ directs complex actions of body and brain

A

Nervous system

44
Q

_________-

  • Awareness
  • Aware of the world
A

Consciousness

45
Q

Attention -

Can be _________ (aware) or _________ (not aware) processes

A
  • conscious

- unconscious

46
Q

Attention
Some behaviors performed with little attention

_________ – unconscious, involuntary

  • Can be developed by training (stopping at red light) or is inherent
    • _________ processing
A
  • Automatic processes

- Bottom-up

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Attention-
Some behaviors performed with little attention

Automatic processes – unconscious, involuntary

  • Can be developed by _________ (stopping at red light) or is _________
  • -Bottom-up processing
A
  • training

- inherent

48
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Attention-

  • Behaviors that are not automatic require _________ attention
    • _________ processing – finding route
A
  • focused

- Top-down

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