PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Traumatic Brain Injury, Frontal Lobe, General Idea
3 Dec 2013
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They tend to indicate that people have difficulty focusing and difficulty concentrating. Trail making test (tmt) someone who suffered a head wound had an extreme attentional deficit. (the us army created it). Its like a simple connect the dotes type the general idea is you start at one dot and making a connection, so what you"re essentially doing is searcing usuing visual array. A version of this, a harder one (there are circles with letters and numbers 1- Alertness - one of the subtest is for alertness. Simple reaction time task, as sson as the patient hears the tone she presses the button as quickly as she can. Sometimes people aren"t able to react fast they have issues in visual array. Attention shifting (sumbolic location cue) posner task. Divided attention frontal visual task at the same time as auditory task. They need to perform both tasks at the same time.
