PSYC36H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Clinical Neuropsychology, Concept Learning, Verbal Fluency Test
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But it is possible to differentiate between the two: concrete thinking . One of the most commonly impaired conceptual functions. Usually appears as an inability to think in useful generalizations, at the level of ideas, or about persons, situations, events not immediately present (past, future, out of sight) When a patient cannot conceptualize abstractly, each event is: mental inflexibility dealt with as if it were novel. However, thinking is likely to be concrete when the patient has specific reasoning disabilities. Concept formation: these tests focus on the quality or process of thinking more than the content of the response. Concept formation tests in verbal formats: proverbs. Most widely used for evaluating quality of thinking. Require the subject to translate a concrete statement into its abstract, metaphorical meaning. Depend on both top-down and bottom-up processing. Their popularity rests on their usefulness as an indicator of conceptual dysfunction.
