PSY 402 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Problem Solving, Physical Exercise
17 Oct 2016
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Executive functioning: higher order cognitive skills needed to make decisions, plan and allocate mental resources. Draws upon working memory, selective attention, mental flexibility, ability to plan and inhibit distracting information. Involves gathering information about a clients brain functioning from a series or standardized cognitive tests. Neuropsychological tests are derived from tests of intelligence that assess verbal recall, auditory attention, and verbal abstraction ability. Trail making test: developed to assess the individuals so called frontal lobe functioning. Test taker is shown a patterned of numbered circles with instructions to draw lines to connect the circles in order. Wisconsin card sorting test: measures the ability to form mental sets in categorizing cards with relating features. Cambridge neuropsychological testing automated battery consists of 22 subtests that assess visual memory, working memory, executive function, attention, verbal memory, and decision making and response control. Provides an assessment of an individuals overall cognitive status along a set of standardized dimensions.
