Neuropsychological Assessment Flashcards
A loss of ability to express oneself or to understand spoken or written language due to a neurological deficit
Aphasia
A widely used screening tool for neuropsychological deficit that entails copying designs; also referred to simply as “the Bender;” developed by Lauretta Bender, M.D.
Bender-Gestalt test
Identifying a pictured stimulus in a neuropsychological context, such as in response to administration of items in the Boston Naming Test
Confrontation naming
Phenomenon resulting from the fact that each of the two cerebral hemispheres receives sensory information from the opposite side of the body and also controls motor responses on the opposite side of the body; understanding of this phenomenon is necessary in understanding brain-behavior relationships and in diagnosing neuropsychological deficits
Contralateral control
Memory of factual material; contrast with procedural memory
Declarative memory
This is a pattern of subtest scores on a Wechsler test that Wechsler himself viewed as suggestive of neurological deficit
Deterioration quotient (DQ)
In neuropsychology, organizing, planning, cognitive flexibility, inhibition of impulses, and other activities associated with the frontal and prefrontal lobes of the brain
Executive functions
A prepackaged test battery containing a number of standardized tests to be administered in a prescribed fashion, such as the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery; contrast with flexible battery
Fixed battery
Best associated with neuropsychological assessment, a group of tests hand-picked by the assessor to provide an answer to the referral question; contrast with fixed battery
Flexible battery
Impairment, injury, harm, or loss of function of any part or process of the central or peripheral nervous systems
Neurological damage
A branch of medicine that focuses on the nervous system and its disorders; contrast with neuropsychology
Neurology
A method of evaluation or treatment that does not involve intrusion (by surgical procedure, X-ray, or other means) into the body; for example, in a neuropsychological evaluation, observation of the client walking or skipping
Noninvasive procedures
An abbreviated reference to organic brain damage and to one of the varieties of functional consequences that attends such damage
Organicity
Study of the pattern of test scores on a Wechsler or other test in order to identify a pattern associated with a diagnosis (such as neurological deficit in the right hemisphere)
Pattern analysis
Memory for how to do certain things or perform certain functions; contrast with declarative memory
Procedural memory
