Chapter 7 Attention and Information Processing Speed

Time Pressure Management

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Who are candidates for TPM?

People with slowed mental processing, or people who have time pressure failures in life

200

What are goals of TPM?

Develop strategies to manage time pressure and bring awareness to how slowness is affecting life

300

What are the three levels of decision-making in TPM?

Strategic, tactical, and operational

Dual-Task Training

100

What is the ability to perform two tasks at once?

Dual-tasking

200

True/False: Priority #1 should be higher importance with low complexity. 

True

300

T/F: For DTT, higher-level tasks should be addressed after 80% accuracy.

False; 90%

Attention Processing Training

100

Is APT a restorative approach or compensatory approach?

restorative

200

What are the three parts of APT?

Evaluation, training, generalization

300

True or False: APT is based on the idea that repeated activation and stimulation of attentional systems facilitates change in cognitive capacity. 

True

400

True or False: APT does NOT emphasize generalization training early on and throughout all of APT Tasks

False, APT does emphasize generalization training early on and throughout all APT tasks.