14: Memory Rehabilitation Flashcards
(50 cards)
What type of memory strategies should be used with pts with mild impairments?
1) internalized strategies (e.g. visual imagery)
2) external memory compensations (e.g. google calendar with notifications)
What type of memory strategies should be used for pts with severe impairments?
1) errorless learning
2) external memory compensations
What are 4 facets of approaches for memory treatment?
1) direct training (drill)
2) focus only on certain memory functions
3) focus on intact memory functions to support impaired ones
4) compensatory strategy use
What are 6 variables for manipulating difficulty of memory activites?
1) amount of to-be-remembered info
2) type of to-be-remembered info
3) similarity of encoding and retrieval conditions
4) encoding strategy
5) length of time until recall
6) type of recall task
What are 4 different types of to-be-remembered information considerations?
1) syntactic complexity
2) emotional content
3) self vs. clinician generated
4) modality
What are 2 different encoding strategies?
1) shallow-rote rehearsal
2) semantic elaboration
What are 2 different types of recall tasks?
1) free recall
2) recognition/cued recall
What can be helpful for encoding memory? (2)
1) making associations - linking new info to existing info
2) organizing information
Which is better? Working on learning something for a few minutes several times a day or 1 hour once a day?
a few minutes several types a day
What are 3 treatment methods for memory?
1) drill based memory tasks
2) mnemonic strategy training
3) metamemory training
What is drill based memory tasks and waht is their goal?
repetition used to “restore” memory capabilities
goal = teach specific info to allow individual to funcion more independently
What is the key factor in drill based memory tasks and what is the theory?
key: errorless learning
theory: memory can be exercised like a muscle and using it for one task will increase performance on other tasks
What pt types is drill based memory tasks used with?
CVA, TBI, anoxia, MCI
What are 4 strengths of drill based memory tasks?
1) good to pair with other strategies
2) works best for information that does not change
3) efficient way to teach specific protocols and routines
4) can assist in increasing attention
What are weaknesses of drill based memory tasks?
1) little empiraical evidence to support increased memory funciton
2) limited generalization to untrained stimuli
What is the clinical bottom line of drill based memory techniques?
does not increase memory capacity or abilities, doesn’t cure memory deficit, it is not a msucle
It should be used in conjuction with other techniques/strategies
What are internal memory strategies?
techniques used to cue interal recall of information
What are 3 strategies for internal memory?
1) visual imagery
2) semantic elaboration
3) verbal organization strategies
What is the theorhetical foundation of internal memory strategies?
encourages deeper level of processing, improving recall
integrates isolated information
provides built-in retrieval cues
What are 2 weaknesses of internal memory strategies?
1) requires metacognition
2) unnatural and difficult to generalize in every day life
What is the clinical bottom line with internal memory strategies?
only use with mild-moderate memory impairments
consider value of many tools in the toolbox
What are 2 association techqinies?
1) visual-verbal imagery
2) visual schematis
What is visual-verbal imagery?
recall names, ID a promitnent feature on a face with a name
What is an example of a visual schematic?
For: goal-plan-do-review, draw a picture of that map
G->P->D->R->
