PSY 442 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Cognitive Flexibility, Executive Functions, Dementia
29 Jul 2020
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Among the cognitive functions that are worked from neuropsychology include: A person oriented both spatially and temporally will be able to identify where you are at all times (your home, work, beach house ) and what day and year we are in. Ability to focus and attend to one or more tasks during a certain period of time. In cases of hemiplegia in which the person cannot move one side of his body, he also usually has difficulties in attending to everything that appears on the paralyzed side. It is usually common in cases of brain damage. Ability to record, process and retain all the information of our life history. One of the most significant memory pathologies is alzheimer"s dementia. It helps us to communicate verbally with others, both to produce language and to understand when they speak to us. It is also essential to be able to think, memorize, plan and any other intellectual activity.
