PSY3041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Differential Diagnosis, Acalculia, Aphasia

• School: Monash University
• Department: Health Sciences - Psychology
• Course: PSY3041
• Professor: jake hoskin

Document Summary

Neuropsychologists also skilled at identifying which aspects of the information processing systems may be damaged: e. g. , information retrieval and storage are related but different functions. Testing is typically done as part of a complex evaluation. When children are not performing well in school, a medical, educational, and psychological evaluation might be ordered. Provides baseline of where a person should be. Although recovery is often impressive, it is not complete and these problems are often hard to evaluate using neuropsychological tests. Uses tests like child development inventory, child behavior checklist, reynolds. Also measures estimates attention and executive function: evaluate functioning related to several different aspects of info processing, attention and executive function are separate, executive function = forming, executing a goal, planning, self control, self monitoring. Study of childhood brain is important to see if there are any learning disabilities: dyslexia: specific reading disorder characterized by difficulties in decoding single words.