EXAM QUESTIONS

Questions to Apply to Each Topic

1. What is the cognitive function and how is it defined?

2. What are its main components/subtypes and key theoretical models?

3. How does it develop across childhood and adolescence?

4. What are the relevant neural substrates - which brain regions and networks support the function, how do these develop, and how can brain damage or atypical development affect the function?

5. How can measures of brain structure/function, such as MRI, fMRI or EEG, be integrated with the neuropsychological profile, and how can this help with diagnosis and prognosis?

6. What assessment measures/tests can be used and what does each measure?

7. How and why would you select one test over another for a particular child?

8. What are the strengths and limitations of the main tests?

9. What psychometric issues are relevant - reliability, validity, norms, ecological validity, practice effects and task impurity?

10. What child, developmental, cultural, contextual or assessment factors could influence performance?

11. What alternative explanations could account for a low or abnormal score?

12. How should the overall pattern/profile of results be interpreted within the individual child's case?

13. What are the potential functional implications for everyday life, school, behaviour and independence?

14. How would you integrate the cognitive, neurological, developmental, behavioural and contextual findings into a neuropsychological formulation?

15. What recommendations, support or further assessment might follow from the findings?