PSY 0515 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cognitive Remediation Therapy, Executive Functions, Social Cognition
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Process specific cognitive remediation: develops awareness to foster behavioral change. Functionally oriented rehabilitation: hand-on practice of desired goals. Holistic psychosocial programs: normal social interactions/natural consequences. Language: problems reading facial expressions, focus excessively on a topic, recognize emotions and theory of mind. Learning and memory: planning, decision making, working memory, hard time multi-tasking, mental fatigue. Divided attention (two tasks at the same time) Declarative: explicit knowledge base: episodic: storage of events that are tagged in time and place, semantic: storage of facts. Non-declarative: procedural: skills and learning of rules, priming : increased chance of retrieval when previously exposed to information without explicit learning. Everyday memory: functional memory constructs: prospective: remembering to carry out intentions, metamemory: awareness of one"s own memory functioning. Amnesia terms: anterograde: inability to acquire new info, retrograde: unable to acquire memory from before, posttraumatic. Restorative: memory practice drills, mnemonic strategy training, visual imagery, prospective memory training, using external aids.
