Attention
What is focused attention?
The ability to focus on one specific task or stimulus while ignoring distractions.
What is short-term memory?
The type of memory responsible for holding small amounts of information that was gathered passively for a short period of time.
What is executive function?
The ability to plan, organize, and complete tasks is part of this cognitive skill.
What are the three types of discourse?
Narrative, procedural, and expository
True or False?
Anomia is a language deficit associated with TBI
True!
Anomia is a language impairment characterized by difficulty retrieving words, especially names of objects, people, or concepts, even though the person knows what they want to sa
What is sustained attention?
This type of attention allows a person to maintain concentration over time, such as listening to a lecture.
What is working memory?
This memory system allows individuals to actively manipulate information, such as remembering a phone number while dialing.
What is planning and sequencing?
Difficulty creating schedules, planning events, and managing time reflects impairment in this executive function skill.
Deficits in discourse include which difficulties?
-Difficulty organizing language
- Disconnected speech
- Tangential speech
is difficulty linkiking information actoss sentences considered a deficit in expressive languae or receptive ?
Expressive language
What is alternating attention?
The ability to shift focus between tasks or stimuli, which is often impaired after a TBI.
What is implicit memory?
This type of memory involves skills and routines that are performed automatically without conscious awareness, such as riding a bike or typing.
John has difficulty changing strategies when a plan doesn’t work, tends to stick with one approach, and struggles to generate new solutions. What executive function skill is impaired?
Cognitive flexibility
True or False?
Social communication includes both verbal and non verbal communication skills.
True!
Social communication includes understanding abstract language, jokes and other social convention necessary for appropriate social interactions and interpersonal relationships.
True or false? swallowing disorders can be a symptom of TBI
True!
What is divided attention?
This type of attention involves managing two tasks at once, like listening while taking notes.
What is episodic memory?
This type of memory stores personal experiences and events, such as remembering a birthday party.
What are independent activities of daily living (I-ADLs)?
Basic self-care activities that an individual can initiate and perform without assistance.
What type of discourse involves explaining the sequence of actions to complete a task?
Procedural
What do cognitive-communication deficits in categorization include?
Interference with:
Initiation and performance of ADLs
Acquisition, processing, and learning of new information
Successful problem solving and decision-making
What is attention/concentration?
A person with TBI may appear distractible and miss key information due to impairment in this cognitive domain.
What is new learning (or encoding)?
A person with TBI may struggle to learn new information due to deficits in this memory process.
What is metacognition?
The ability to evaluate one’s own knowledge, monitor thinking, and regulate behavior during tasks.
What type of discourse involves the use and understanding of informative language in spoken modalities?
Expository
In individuals with traumatic brain injury, expressive language deficits often include what difficulty?
-Difficulty sequencing verbal information
- Difficulty recalling prepositions to conver story content
-Producing shorter narratives with less information
- Difficulty recalling prepositions to convey story content