PSYC31H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Neuropsychology
14 Oct 2016
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Tower test: tower of london (2nd edition) Only one piece may be moved at a time. Each piece my be moved only from peg to peg. More complex in that, instead of the same size pieces, the objects to be rearranged are five rings of varying sizes. A larger ring may not be placed on a smaller ring: the tower of toronto. Adds one more layer of complexity a fourth ring. The same-size rings have different colors: white, yellow, red, and black. Controlled oral word association (cowa: verbal fluency. Compromised by damage in and near the vicinity of broca"s area in the left hemisphere. Performance depends in part on the subject"s ability to organize output in terms of clusters of meaningfully related words. Examiner asks subjects to list as many words as they can think of that begin with the given letter of the alphabet, excluding proper nouns, numbers, and the same words with a different suffix.
