PSYC31H3 Lecture Notes - Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Neuropsychology, Mental Event
19 Apr 2013
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Intact system to organize perceptions: well-stocked and readily store of remembered learned material, capacity to process two or more mental event at a time, a response modality sufficiently integrated with central cortical activity to transform conceptual. Intact cortical and subcortical interconnections and interaction patterns that underlie thought experiences into behaviour: proper functioning feedback system for continuous monitoring and modulation of output. It is not unusual to fund executive and conceptual/reasoning deficits occurring together. Concrete thinking is one of the most common signs of impaired conceptual functions. Usually appears as an inability to think in useful generalizations, at the level of ideas, or about persons, situations, events not immediately present. Some patients do poorly on virtually all tests of abstract thinking, regardless of mode of presentation or channel of response. Patients with mild neuropsychological defects may not engage in concrete thinking generally, but may show deficits on test that test specific aspect of concept formation and reasoning.
