PSYC31H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Regression Analysis, Fender Wide Range, Visual Acuity
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Distinguishing characteristic of neuropsychological assessment is its emphasis on identi cation and measurement of psychological cognitive and behavioural de cits, for it is in de ciencies and dysfunctional alterations of cognition that brain disorders are manifested behaviourally. Also concerned with the documentation and description of preserved functions. In clinical settings, impairments in e ciency and executive functions are usually evaluated on the basis of their e ect speci c cognitive activity or personality characteristics rather than studied in their own right. Prior level of functioning against which the patient"s performance may be measured. This level, the comparison standard, may be normative (derived from an appropriate population) or individual (derived from the patient"s history or present characteristics), depending on the patient, the behaviour being evaluated, and the assessment"s purpose. Use either as appropriate for the function being examined. The normative comparison standard may be an average or middle score.
