01:830:310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Divergent Thinking, Inhibitory Control Test, Executive Functions

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:310
• Professor: Professor Mayhew

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Higher levels of cognitive processing that organize and plan behavior, including reasoning, logic, and abstract reasoning. Memory, attention, problem solving, planning, inhibition, verbal reasoning, Types of cues for appropriate action decisions etc. Divergent responses, planning and organizing, abstract reasoning. Be able to recognize them when you see them. Linking of memory content & autonomic states. Rapid learning in response to changing reinforcement contingencies. Error detection and conflict monitoring (resolution between competing responses). Only a single answer or solution is possible. Have 5 minutes to come up with words to come up words beginning. Normal individuals: up to 60 words; frontal patients with lesions: fewer. Test 1: word fluency with the letter s. than 10. Testing the range for drawing a variety of shapes. Lesioned patients: get an idea and stick with it- so all flowers, for example. Preservation (same theme), low variety (same shapes)