PSYC31H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cognitive Flexibility, Major Depressive Disorder, Response Bias

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC31H3
• Professor: Konstantine Zakzanis

Document Summary

Can be worse at onset and get better over time. Can be subtle at onset and get worse over time. Depending on where you test the person, the cognitive functions may be more obvious. The longer medication is taken the more impact it has on cognition. Some aspects of cognition get better with age and some get worse. If person doesn"t get better, validity is added to the conclusion of memory deficit. If the person gets better, the ability to learn is shown to be intact. If the test is administered and the deficit goes away, another confound could explain the results. Diffuse brain diseases don"t affect all brain structures equally, and it"s rare to find focal injury in which some diffuse repercussions do not take place either temporarily or ultimately. Anoxia (e. g. , stroke, suicide attempts, sexual disorders) Impaired higher level and complex reasoning resulting in conceptual concretism and inflexibility. General response slowing exacerbates all test scores.