Cognition Questions in Psychology: Language & Behavior Terms

- Spontaneous recovery vs neuroplasticity and why we care

- Right temporal lobe CVA, what are you expecting to be impaired?

- PPA versus aphasia

- Dementia vs Aphasia

- Types of attention and therapy tasks for each

- What is neglect? How to assess and treatment for it

- Cognition for normal aging vs Dementia

- TBI client ... what symptoms do you expect?

A 25 year old guy fell off the ladder and hit his head and had a frontal lobe lesion. You had to outline what you might expect to see, the assessment, and treatment strategies for 3 of the impairments.

Discuss language and behavior as it relates to lesions involving the right cerebral hemisphere. In general, how would this differ from left hemisphere?

What is the interaction between cognition and language? Provide examples

BIDIRECTIONAL RELATIONSHIP

- We use language when we employ executive functions to solve problems.

- We use executive functions when we process, interpret, and comprehend language

Attention, working memory, and inhibition

Attention- what if someone is presenting and someone is clicking pen, having side convos, you still need to use verbal expression correctly, don't attend to question/direction then ya cant answer/follow the direction

working memory- store info for short amount of time, someone is wanting you to answer question (aud comp) so you'd need to be able to store it, manipulate it, and then use it to answer

inhibition- dont want to be blurting out info