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| Stored knowledge and the processes for making and manipulating it |
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| A type of stored knowledge |
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| The process of sharing knowledge by means of a symbol system |
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Can be classified as
a. facts and actions
b. Knowledge about bioregulatory processes, states,actions and emotions.
c.Knowledge about the relationship between A and B as derived from experience. |
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| Perception,orientation, attention, vigilance, association, encoding,retreival reasoning, planning, monitoring |
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| Stored knowledge and the processes for making and manipulating it |
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| The capacity for cognition |
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| Like corporation divisions |
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| sensory, working and long-term memory |
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| brief registration of sensory information at the level of a peripheral receptor organ |
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| Active memory, whatever is in consciousness. |
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| Working memory allows us to |
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o Form intentions
o Hold information in consciousness
o Rehearse input
o Activate long-term memory
o Make judgments about incoming info
o Monitor behavior |
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| Capacity of working memory |
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| limited to holding 7+/-2 units of sensory information. |
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| Retrieves information from long term storage and encodes information into long term storage |
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| Declarative- facts, events, words |
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| memory of events ( allows us to go back in time.) |
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| procedures, habits, reflexes, conditioned responses |
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| Priming depends on this type of memory |
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| facilitation of a response by virtue or prior exposure to related stimuli - occurs through spreading activation of electrochemical energy |
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| Neuroanatomy of sensory memory |
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| modular perceptual processing systems |
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| Neuroanatomy of working memory |
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| Frontal lobes and related structures. Preforntal cortex |
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| Neuroanatomy of declarative memory |
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| Interaction between medial-temporal /diencephalic and neo cortical brain regions |
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| Neuroanatomy of semantic memory |
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| distributed across sensory association cortices |
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| Neuroanatomy of motor procedural memory |
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| basal ganglia and motor system |
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| Damage to the frontal lobes |
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| dysexcecutive syndrome diminished span, encoding poblems, less efficient information retrieval, attention deficits. |
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| Damage to the temporal lobes |
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| deficits in episodic memory deficits in semantic memory, deficits in lexical memory disruption of auditory processing |
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| deficits relating perceptual information to activated stored representations. |
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| deficit in associating a reward with a stimulus. |
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| Damage to basal ganglia and thalamus |
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| deficits in PM and learning new motor skills. |
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| all cognitive-memorial functions may be affected ie TBI |
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| arises from bilateral lesions of medial surface of temporal lobes and hippocampi and amydalae= loss of neurons in thalmus and mamillary bodies |
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| Poor auditory - verbal short term memory |
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| Usually associated with occipital lobe lesions in LH |
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| Poor visual -spatial short term memory |
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| Usually associated with lesions in occipital- parietal regions of RH |
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| Diagnostic criteria for dementia |
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Presence of multiple cognitive deficits that include both: a. Long and short term memory b. and one of the following: aphasia,apraxia, agnosia, impaired executive functioning
Significant problems with employment or social situations. Does not always include delirium. |
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| Diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's dementia |
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A. Gradual onset and progressive cognitive deterioration
B. Deficits not due to:
a. Other CNS etiologies
b. Systemic conditions
c. Substance-induced conditions
C. Cognitive deficits are not due to schizophrenia or depression |
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| Hallmark early symptom of Alzheimer's |
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| episodic memory problems. Spreads to areas important for declarative memory. |
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| Alzheimer's effects on working memory |
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| affected. span attenuates gradually, central executive is less efficient |
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| AD effects on declarative -eposodic |
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| affected early Semantic= access impaired ultimately degrades. Lexical some aspects hold ie knowledge of word class pronuciation, spelling |
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| AD effects on procedural memory |
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| Habits, priming- hold relatively well. |
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| Episodic memory deficits affect communication |
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| Lack of cohesion, poor topic maintenance, poor auditory comprehension, sentence fragments |
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| Decline in semantic memory |
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| Bizarre content, empty language, poor auditory comprehension |
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| Decline in lexical memory |
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| Dysnomia, shrinking vocab, paraphasias, mispellings. |
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| Preserved procedural memory allows for |
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| Preserved grammar and syntax, good pronunciation, know when to talk, retention of social phrases. |
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| A clinical syndrome reflecting dopamine deficiency. |
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