PSYC31H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Perseveration, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Visual Memory
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Ask his wife about his medication and memory issues. Subject variables: there are a number of subject (i. e. , patient) variables, that by and large, tend to effect neuropsychological test performance . Age: the adverse effects of brain damage on adult behavior tend to increase with advancing age, however, one needs to understand what normal cognitive aging includes to make such deductions . All the elderly people were doing something to keep themselves active (bingo, golfing, cross-words) If you misinterpret it as a dementia, you"re basically giving that person a death-sentence adverse effects! The normal cognitive aging of older persons: over learned skills and knowledge are crystallized and continue to be fully operative into the 70s and 80s. Resistant to decay: for activities requiring fluid intelligence there is a typical pattern of relative slow decline through the middle years until the late 50s or early 60s, when decline proceeds at an increasingly rapid pace. Wisconsin card sorting test i. e. problem solving.
