Memory
Attention, Encoding, Long Term Memory, Retrieval
What are the 4 stages of memory?
The ability to keep your attention on one thing in quiet.
What is sustained attention?
Thinking skills that are like tasks a CEO of a company would do.
What are executive functions?
What is 4?
This lobe controls movement of our eyes.
What is the frontal lobe?
Calendars, planner, phone alerts, alarms
What are external memory strategies?
Limit distraction, take breaks as needed, break longer tasks into shorter blocks.
What are compensatory strategies for attention?
Knowing what to do in a situation and the process of thinking through to come to a solution.
What is problem-solving/reasoning?
Name the lobes of the brain.
What are the frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital lobes?
Symptoms of visual deficits.
What are headaches, blurry or double vision, light sensitivity?
Association, repetition, categorization
What are internal memory strategies?
The ability to switch your thinking/attention from one thing to something else and back again.
What is alternating attention?
The ability to switch thinking from one thing to something else without your brain getting stuck.
What is mental flexibility?
This lobe is responsible for processing what you see.
What is the occipital lobe?
The functional impacts of visual deficits.
What are difficulty with attention, motion sensitivity, trouble reading, clumsiness?
The ability to recall steps needed to complete an activity
What is procedural memory?
Being able to keep your attention on more than one thing at the same time, doing both with equal accuracy
What is divided attention?
Knowing when it is appropriate to say/do something and when it is not.
What is inhibition?
This lobe is responsible for attention, memory, starting and finishing tasks.
What is the frontal lobe?
The term for seeing two of the same thing.
What is diplopia?
The ability to recall specific events in your life.
What is episodic memory?
Attention is the first phase of this thinking process.
What is memory?
The most effective executive function strategy for planning and organizing a large task.
What is Plan-Execute-Review/Revise?
This lobe is responsible for understanding what is said and also has a major memory center.
What is the temporal lobe?
Compensatory strategies for visual deficits.
What are a line guide, blue light blockers, wearing a hat or sunglasses?