Cognition
How an individual utilizes and integrates his or her thinking and processing skills to accomplish everyday activities in clinical and community living environments.
What is cognition?
This occurs to cognition the older we get.
What is cognition decreases?
These are the targeted behaviors in many traditional cognitive rehab programs.
What are attention, memory, and executive functions?
This type of information processing includes general knowledge about facts.
What is semantic memory?
This person said, "Cognitive rehabilitation should always be directed toward improving everyday functioning in areas that are relevant to their everyday lives."
Who is Cicerone?
Occupational therapists believe this can only be understood and facilitated fully within the context of occupational performance.
What is functional cognition?
This factor includes social deprivation and effects of scion-economic status.
What are social and cultural factors?
This type of awareness is the ability to detect errors in performance when it is actually happening.
What is emergent awareness?
This type of information processing includes the routines that are built in.
What is procedural memory?
This is what you should be looking for when assessing a client's behavioral cognition.
What are changes in efficiency, effort, and quality?
This term includes the discerning between the information, selecting relevant information, retention of information, and application of knowledge.
What is the cognitive process?
This factor includes task demands and contextual cues.
What are task and environmental factors?
This is vulnerable to interference from old memories, irrelevant memories, distractions, and interference.
What is working memory?
This type of memory uses past experiences to remember things without thinking about them.
What is implicit memory?
This is the first step in the intervention process.
What is selecting an area of intervention?
This type of mental function includes judgment, concept formation, metacognition, cognitive flexibility, insight, attention, and awareness.
What is higher-level cognitive?
This includes signs of individuals who are confused and disoriented, have difficulty planning and organizing, and are unable to prioritize.
What are signs of cognitive dysfunction?
This is recognition of one's self in regard to time, place, and person within the person's own environment.
What is orientation?
This type of information is first routed through the thalamus to the visual area of the cerebral cortex.
What is visual information?
Breaking up an activity into two 10 minute sessions instead of one 20 minute session is an example of this type of intervention.
What is changing task and environment?
This is one of the four major effects when cognition becomes impaired.
What is:
-Reduced efficiency and effectiveness?
-Reduced pace and persistence of functioning?
-Decreased performance of routine ADL's?
-Difficulty adapting to new or problematic situations?
These effects are associated with the affective factors influencing cognition.
What are the effects of anxiety, depression, and mental distractions?
This process includes attending, encoding, storing, and recalling.
What is the memory process?
This type of process involves poor listening, poor comprehension, disuse, absence of cue/reminder, and depression.
What is the process of forgetting?
This is the fourth step in executive function interventions.
What is strategy training using external, internal, learning, and multi-context training?