Cognitive Neuropsychology (CORRECTLY SOLVED)

Neuropsychology correct answers Aims to promote the investigation of normal human cognition, based on neuropsychological methods (Brain pathology, recording, stimulation & imaging) Emergence of CN (1970s) correct answers Psychologists wanted to locate cognitive function w/ particular area of brain 2 broad aims correct answers - Explain patterns: Impaired/intact cognitive performance in neurological/psychiatric patients in terms of impairment. - Draw conclusions about normal, intact cognitive processes from observed disorders. Capgras Delusion (Delusional Misidentidication Syndrome) correct answers Informs processes underlying normal recognition of familiar others. - Sustained, transient or recurrent. Delusions correct answers Beliefs that won't change even with conflicting evidence. e.g. persecutory, referential, somatic, religious, grandiose People who have delusions (5) correct answers - Implausible - Not derived from ordinary life experiences - Sincere - Act on their beliefs - Hold onto beliefs, despite evidence counteracting. Cotards delusion correct answers 'I am dead' Thought insertion correct answers 'My thoughts are being implanted in my head' Delusions of control correct answers 'Someone else is controlling my actions' Anosognosia for hemiplegia correct answers Thought that a hemiplegic limb is fully functional Features of a delusion correct answers Arise from anomalous experiences from brain damage. Either; - Frequently occurring - Independent & Mono-thematic Maher, Stone & Young correct answers Meaningful hypotheses generated by normal reasoning processes to explain aberrant perceptual experiences. Garety & Hemsley correct answers Abnormal reasoning in combination with ab/normal perceptual experiences 1st Description of CD correct answers Mrc C in 1923, about her husband and kids.