Perception & Cognition Flashcards
1
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What is perception?
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Receiving information and making sense of it.
Processing that transforms sensory information into meaningful representations - visual, auditory, touch, taste, smell
2
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Types of perceptual disorders
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Agnosia - failure of recognition (visual/auditory), astereognosis
Apraxia/Dyspraxia - disorder of movement in sequence
Neglect - failure to report to or orient to stimuli in the site of the brain lesion
3
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What is cognition?
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- Higher level of understanding
- The act of knowing or thinking - choosing, understanding, remembering, learning
4
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Types of cognitive problems
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- Attention and concentration
- Processing and understanding
- Memory
- Language and communication - remembering new information
- Planning and organisation
- Behaviour (inappropriate, embarrassing, impulsive)
Mainly frontal lobe
5
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Outcome Measure for Cognition
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- MoCA (Montreal Cognitive Assessment) - drawing, naming things, memory
