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Thought Functions
Perception
Attention
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Mental Functions
100
Requires mentally utilizing information that relates to the concept or activity at hand.
What is Appropriate Thought Content
100
Perception of where one's body is in space.
What is Vestibular-Proprioception
100
Information (memories) about past events, language, and sensory experiences that are stored.
What is Long-Term Memory
100
Being aware of your roles and identity in the world.
What is Self-Concept
100
Having one's own cognitive processes and the ability to manipulate & control their cognition.
What is Metacognition
200
Sound reasoning; allowing actions to be feasible.
What is Logical Thought
200
Perceptual function that gives us the ability to understand dimensions and physical characteristics of objects.
What is Tactile Discrimination
200
Supports retention of information into memory; maintaining concentration on one activity or stimulus.
What is Sustained Attention
200
Relating to personality and temperament.
What is Emotional Stability
200
When the person is able to recognize limitations or strengths while they are occurring.
What is Emergent Awareness
300
Finding similarities and differences and putting objects or information into groups.
What is Categorization
300
Integration of sensory information from different sources (sensory systems) to better interpret what is occurring in the environment.
What is Multisensory Processing
300
Memory function that produces storage of information temporarily; allowing for recall of small bits of information for immediate use.
What is Short-Term Memory
300
The physical display of emotions, usually portrayed in facial expressions.
What is Affect
300
Complex decision making, planning, and abstract thinking controlled by frontal lobes.
What is Executive Functioning
400
The ability to take a strategy learned in one situation and transfer it to a new or different situation.
What is Generalization
400
Our ability to perceive and interpret different shapes, objects, and colors.
What is Visual Discrimination
400
Actively discriminating between what information and stimulus to absorb and and what to disregard.
What is Selective Memory
400
Handling a crisis or decisive turning points in life or situations.
What is Coping
400
Having a realistic concept of one's physical and mental capabilities.
What is Insight
500
BONUS: Inability to recognize objects, faces, sounds, and textures.
What is Agnosia. Opposite of Recognition.
500
Cognitive processing of what our eyes detect; perceiving and understanding what they see.
What is Visual Perception
500
Allows us to perform many of our everyday tasks that require a temporary hold of information for use in various aspects of the activity.
What is Working Memory
500
Related to a person's awareness of the physicality and image of their own body and shape.
What is Body Image
500
Shifting from one concept to another when confronting a problem or changing a set of thoughts.
What is Cognitive Flexibility