PSYC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Iowa Gambling Task, Neuropsychological Test, Frontal Lobe
16 Mar 2017
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Provide a basis for caring and counseling for patients. Provide a means of evaluating the effectiveness of treatment and seriousness of its side effects. Disadvantage injured patients rarely have specific local brain damage, because it usually is a global injury and that for research purposes, it is hard to look for match samples. Single test to detect presence of brain damage primary function. Discriminate with psychological problems resulting from structural rather than functional changes to the brain. Unsuccessful one test fails to detect the multitude of psychological symptoms that occur in a single brain damaged person. Standardized-test battery to detect presence of brain damage involved using a set" of tests. Unsuccessful discriminate between neurological patients and healthy patients, but not very good at discriminating between neurological patients and psychiatric patients. The focus is on the cognitive strategy the patient employs (brain damage often changed that strategy without lowering the score)
