PSYC37H3 Chapter 17: Chapter 17

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15 Dec 2011
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Chapter 17: testing in health psychology and health care. Clinical neuropsychology: scientific disciple focuses on psychological impairments on central nervous system and remediation; studies relationship btw behavior and brain functioning in realms of cognitive, motor, sensory and emotional functioning. Identification, description, multivariate quantification and treatment of diseases of brain and spinal cord. Neuropsychology and neurology both focus on sensations and perceptions and on motor movements. Neuropsychology and psychiatry both study mood and adaptations to psychosocial situations. Neuropsychology and psychometrics both use psychological tests. But neuropsychology finely specialized, focusing on attention, memory, learning, language and communication, spatial integration, cognitive flexibility. Attempts to relate brain dysfunction and damage to observable and measurable brain functioning. Few short years ago, only way to learn problems was to study brains of people who had already died. Remarkable variability from person to person in how brains structured and organized. Performance on neuropsychological tests give clues which parts of brain to examine.