PSYC31H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Llama, Thought Identification, Memory Span
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Chapter 1 - the practice of neuropsychological assessment. About the quote by lezak: as a clinical neuropsychologist, we"re interested in understanding behaviour (more specifically cognitive function: memory disorders, executive disorders, etc. ). However, this definition is dated, there is so much still to be learned and describing the limitations it presents. To understand where it"s going, we need to see where it came from; therefore history is necessary to cover. There was a predominant view that demonology was responsible for mental health deficits. However, when they did this, they caused brain damage, increasing the abnormalities and mental deficits. About witch hunts: looking for people they thought were possessed, who displayed different symptoms from typical mental health disorders. People who survived the "dunking" were considered witches and beheaded, people who did not were dead anyway. This was one of the first ways of administering "tests" to deduce the possession of impairments in mental health. The same kind of algorithmic thinking occurs today.
