Higher-Level Cognitive Functions
Movement Functions & Sensory Functions
Attention/Memory
Experience of Self & Time & Global Mental
Functions
Grab-bag Miscellaneous
100
Ability to carry out sequential movements, with timing & sequencing of movements.
What is Praxis
100
Using both sides of the body, arms, or legs, are used collaboratively to complete a task.
What is Bilateral Integration
100
Stores information for about thirty seconds.
What is Short-Term Memory
100
Being aware of your roles and identity in the world.
What is Self-Concept.
100
The physical display of emotions usually demonstrated in facial expressions.
What is Affect
200
Shifting between two or more concepts when confronted with a problem.
What is Cognitive Flexibility
200
Ability to determine where one's body parts are moving and in which direction they are moving or being held.
What is Awareness of Body Position & Space (Body Awareness)
200
Short-term memories created out of sensations.
What is Sensory Memory
200
Characteristic of a personality and temperament.
What is Emotional Stability
200
Allows our actions to be feasible; "make sense".
What is Logical Thought
300
Having a realistic concept of one's physical and mental capabilities.
What is Insight
300
Sensation that alerts us to possible harm.
What is Thermal Awareness
300
Focusing on one or more stimuli while other stimuli or information in the environment is ignored.
What is Selective Attention
300
Understanding of one's own identity.
What is Orientation to Person and Self
300
The ability to understand what abilities and weaknesses are present before engaging in the activity.
What is Intellectual Awareness
400
Mentally examining the aspects of different options and discriminating the variation in order to form an opinion or belief.
What is Judgment
400
Allows us to detect form and contour, differentiate between them, and discern details.
What is Visual Acuity
400
Allows us to hold information and use it during tasks.
What is Working Memory
400
Decision making, abstract thinking, planning, carrying out plans, mental flexibility, and deciding appropriate actions.
What is Executive Functioning
500
An awareness of one's own cognitive processes and the ability to manipulate control one's own cognition.
What is Megacognition
500
Allows people to move their bodies in surrounding space against the forces of gravity.
What is Vestibular sense
500
Focusing for limited amounts of time and switching and then refocusing to another stimulus to engage in multiple tasks at one time.
What is Shifting Attention
500
A person's awareness of the physicality and image of his or her own body.
What is Body Image
500
What is the name of the loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells.
What is Agnosia.