Class_10_Executive Function I Flashcards
(13 cards)
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Supervisory Attentional System by Norman & Shallice’s
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- Supervisory Attentional System
- top-down control, for situations that are nonroutine
- behavior that is goal-directed
- only active when the contention scheduling system will not be effective. - Contention scheduling & action schemas
- control routine behavior
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Central Executive in Baddeley’s Model
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- provides activation of the appropriate task, with maintenance of a task-switching in the
phonological loop - focus attention to influence the relative balance between habits and inhibitory signals
3
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Phineas Gage case
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frontal lobes lesion
- disorganized behavior
4
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Switching tests
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- Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
- Wisconsin Card Sorting Test - Nelson short form
- patients are told when a rule change is about to happen - Trail Making Test
- Color Trails Test
- more culture fair
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Perseveration
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keep doing the same thing, despite information that they should have responded another way
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Trail Making Test metrics
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- time to completion
- ratio of time to complete Part A to Part B
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Monitoring tests
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- Cognitive Estimates Test
- Brixton Test
- fail to maintain set
- number of errors made
8
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Inhibition tests
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- Stroop test
- Hayling Test
- Errors
- response times
9
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Aspects of response inhibition performance
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- withholding
- deliberately not planning and starting an action - withdrawing responses
- starting an action and then stopping yourself before it completes - goal-directed, and habitual inhibition
10
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Abstraction tests
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- Similarities Test
- proverb interpretation
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Planning tests
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- Tower Test
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Hot Executive Functions
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processing emotion
- dopamine pathways innervate the prefrontal cortex, particularly ventral and medial aspects
- expectations of rewards and punishments
- similar to the orbitofrontal region
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Hot Executive Functions tests
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Iowa Gambling Task
