Quiz 7 Flashcards
What is resource allocation?
There exists a finite amount of attention resource. Each activity demands a certain amount of attention. An increase in amount or difficulty requires more attention to one task which leaves less attention available for other tasks.
Understand the basics of executive function: what is it/what does it control (4)?
Responsible for initiating intentional behavior, planning routines to accomplish intentions, maintaining and regulating goal-directed behavior, monitoring and modifying behavior in response to situational variables.
How do you assess for the different areas of memory—specifically, what are the tasks that you have the patient/client perform (4)?
a. Digit span testing looks at retention span.
b. Personal information looks at remote memory. “What is your address?”
c. Placing geometric designs and asking the client to redraw them (after removing them) tests visual memory.
d. Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test assesses prospective memory.
How do you assess for the different areas of attention? —specifically, what are the tasks that you have the patient/client perform?
a. Alertness – indirectly assessed during interviews
b. Reaction time – the time between the onset of each stimulus and the individual’s response
c. Sustained attention (vigilance) is assessed with strings of computer-presented auditory and visual stimuli that is presented over long and purposely monotonous intervals.
d. Selective attention is assessed using cancellation tasks that increase in difficulty
e. Alternating attention is measured using sustained attention tasks in which response requirements change periodically
When assessing a client with a brain injury, what data should you include [(re: the brain injury and results of)5]?
Location Severity Attention Memory Executive function emotional/psychological effects
What s/s are we looking for when assessing a person with RHS?
a. Alertness – indirectly assessed during interviews
b. Reaction time – the time between the onset of each stimulus and the individual’s response
c. Sustained attention (vigilance) is assessed with strings of computer-presented auditory and visual stimuli that is presented over long and purposely monotonous intervals.
d. Selective attention is assessed using cancellation tasks that increase in difficulty
e. Alternating attention is measured using sustained attention tasks in which response requirements change periodically
Basically, these individuals present with autism
What are the presenting s/s of left neglect
Attends only to the right side of text when reading, draw right side of object, don’t acknowledge people who are standing on the left side.
What is ideational preservation?
repeats words/phrases
What is disinhibition?
lack of restraint, a disregard for social conventions, impulsivity, and poor risk assessment
What is confabulation?
fill gaps in memories with lies
denial of deficits
When a person is unaware of their disability
What is reduplicative paramnesia?
a delusional belief that a place has been duplicated, exists in more than one place simultaneously, or that it has been relocated to another place.
