PSY100H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dyslexia, Memory Span, Visual Field
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Orientation is the awareness of self in relation to one"s surroundings, requires consistent and reliable integration of attention, perception, and memory. Orientation defects are among the most frequent symptoms of brain disease. Impaired orientation for time and place typically occurs with widespread cortical involvement, lesions in the limbic system, or damage to the ras of the brain stem. While impaired orientation itself is strongly suggestive of cerebral dysfunction, good orientation is not evidence of cognitive or attentional competence. Exposes subjects to large amount of info with instructions to repeat what was said or heard to indicate what was grasped in some kind of immediate response. Amount of info correctly repeated is considered indicative of the size of the subject"s attentional capacity. Most common for measuring span of immediate verbal recall. 2 different tests involved: digits forward, digits backward, digit span: digits forward. Subject repeats a sequence exactly as it is given.
