Cognitive Neuropsychology (All questions correctly solved)

Cognitive Neuropsychology correct answers a branch of cognitive psychology, studying how people carry out cognitive tasks normally from the impairments Goals for Cognitive Neuropsychology correct answers 1. develop theories about how the cognitive function is normally carried out 2. use theories to explain the particular patterns of preserved and impaired abilities in people Modes of Explanation? correct answers Deficits occur because of a disruption to psychological processes rather than brain damage to a specific area Dissociation correct answers Patient is normal on one task but impaired on another, okay for identifying different cognitive systems Double dissociation correct answers Two patients are opposite normal and impaired on two different tests, great for identifying different cognitive systems Association correct answers People who are impaired on one task are more likely to be impaired on other tasks too, not good for research Modularity correct answers Key assumption in cognitive neuropsychological research, brain is composed of a large number of small modules that function independently to carry out different cognitive processes Converging Operations correct answers Drawing evidence from both experimental and cognitive neuropsychological research, supported by normal and abnormal patients Reasons to study deficits correct answers Better understand the deficits, the cognitive processes themselves and localization, improve treatment methods Basic Cognitive Functions correct answers visual perception and object recognition, language comprehension and production, memory, spatial awareness, motor control Fundamental Principles correct answers Mind as a computing device Mental representations & computations Brain as the hardware that implements the representations and computations distinction between cognitive and neural (where and how in brain) explanations Distinction between a task or a behavior & the underlying mental computations Purpose of research articles correct answers use new facts to draw theoretical conclusions Structure of research articles correct answers abstract, introduction, case history, methods, results, discussion, references