W10 - Rehabilitation & Clinical Contexts

Question 1

What would optimal performance look like for amputees?

Answer 1

Compensation for structural changes

Return back to cognitive stage of learning + re-learn adapted version of skill.

Question 2

What would optimal performance look like after a stroke?

Answer 2

Regain automaticity

Return back to cognitive stage of learning + aim to recover automaticity of same skill

Question 3

What would optimal performance look like for ageing?

Answer 3

Exploit automaticity

⬇️ factors that induce cognitive processing, such as reinvestment

i.e reduce excessive anxiety

Question 4

What would optimal performance look like for somebody with Parkinson’s disease?

Answer 4

Compensate for compromised automaticity

Employ cognitive strategies to help avoid reliance on automatic processes

Question 5

Attentional control theory (ATC)

Answer 5

Theory assumes that anxiety automatically leads to attention disruption + ⬆️ distractibility.

= May impair cognitive or perceptual motor performance if ind can’t counteract the attention disruption.