Clinical Neuropsychology & Health Psychology

Question 1

What is cognitive screening?

Answer 1

What’s happenin? Can happen anywhere.

Question 2

Complex attention?

Answer 2

When it’s major, it’s hard to be in a busy room and hard to do simple tasks. Attention, processing speed.

Question 3

Executive function?

Answer 3

When it’s major, need to focus on one thing at a time and rely on others to make decision. Planning, decisions, working memory.

Question 4

Learning + Memory

Answer 4

When it’s major, repeating yourself in a convo, can’t remember short list.

Question 5

Language (major vs minor)

Answer 5

When it’s major, “that thing”, “you know what I mean”, can’t remember names

Question 5

Language (major vs minor)

Answer 5

When it’s major, “that thing”, “you know what I mean”, can’t remember names

Question 6

Perceptual motor

Answer 6

Seeing something and knowing something about it. Visual perception.

Question 7

Social cognition

Answer 7

Recognizing emotions, theory of mind

Question 8

Health psychology

Answer 8

Promoting health, not fixing a problem

Question 9

Health protective behavior

Answer 9

Doesn’t need to actually work, going to gym + bad eating, anything people do to promote health

Question 10

Primary and secondary appraisal

Answer 10

Primary: Assessing harm, how much will this impact me? Will I still get into law school?
Secondary: Do I have the means to deal with this? Do I have tutors to help me study?

Question 11

Approach vs avoidance in health promotion

Answer 11

Approach: programs/campaigns on how to live a healthier life
Avoidance: horrible things that could happen if you don’t change behavior (eg. smoke packs)