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Screening Attention, Arousal, and Cognition
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Graduate
02/15/2013

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declarative (explicit)
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requires conscious attention and learns specific facts
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procedural (implicit)
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results of practice and experience (bike riding)
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process of creating retatively permanent change in physical skills
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Motor Learning
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act or proces sof knowing including both awareness and judgement
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Arousal
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physiologic readuness for activity
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alert
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awake and attentive
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lethargic
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drowsy and fals asleep easily (needs loud voice to keel pt awake)
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Delerium
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confusion of circumstances (hallucinate)
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Obtunded
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difficult to wake from sleep (loud voice plus gentle shake)
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Stupor
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responds only to noxious stimuli and returns to unconsciousness
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Coma
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cannot be aroused even with noxious stimuli
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Attention
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Ability to focus on specific information
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selective attention
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ability to select important information while ignoring other sources
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divided attention
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ability to process more than 1 source of information or performing more than 1 task
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alternating attention
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ability to switch between 2 tasks or sources of information
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sustained attention (vigilance)
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ability to pay attention for lng periods of time without losing interest
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communication
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use of language ot pre-verbal means to interact with others
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perception
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integration os sensation into meaningful information including peripheral sensory mechanisms and higher level processing
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levels of consciousness
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tests and measures for arousal
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Glascow coma scale

Ranchos Los Amigos Levels of Cognitive Functioning

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Tests and measures for Coma
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Digit repetition

Vigilence

Dual task tests

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tests and measures for attention
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Folstein Mini Mental Status Exam
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tests and measures for congition
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Agitation behavior scale
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tests and measures for agitation
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Geriatric depression scale

Beck depression inventory

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tests and measures for depression
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