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BSNC 1000 FINAL EXAM MODULE 7-10 withVerified solutions| Rated A+ Latest Update 2024
Cognition - ✔✔Mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought,
experience, and the senses.
Perception - ✔✔Interpretation of the environment which is dependent on acuity of sensory input
Awareness - ✔✔Ability to perceive or to be sensitive to stimuli in environment
Attention - ✔✔Ability to focus on a particular area of conscious content
Memory - ✔✔Retention and recall of past experiences and learning
Declarative memory - ✔✔Ability to consciously learn and recall information, memory providing long-
term storage of large amounts of information
Immediate memory - ✔✔Also known as "attention span", memory that retains very small amounts of
information for a very short amount of time
Working memory - ✔✔Memory that allows for small amount of information to be actively maintained
and manipulated
Procedural memory - ✔✔Retention and retrieval of motor skills
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, Executive function - ✔✔Higher thinking processes that allow for flexibility, adaptability, and goal-
directedness
Cerebral cortex - ✔✔Part of the brain that is responsible for carrying out intellectual functions
Hippocampus - ✔✔Part of the brain that plays a significant role in committing information to long-term
memory
Confusion - ✔✔Disturbance of consciousness, impaired ability to think clearly, to perceive, respond to,
and remember current stimuli
Frontal lobe - ✔✔Part of the brain associated with personality, working memory, executive function,
intellect, and speech
Delirium - ✔✔State of disturbed consciousness and altered cognition with rapid onset occurring over
hours or a few days
- characterized by motor restlessness, transient hallucinations, and disorientation
Dementia - ✔✔Acquired and progressive deterioration of all cognitive functions
Primary dementia - ✔✔Dementia that is irreversible and not secondary to another disease
Secondary dementia - ✔✔Dementia that occurs as a result of another disease process
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, Focal cognitive disorders - ✔✔Affect a single area of cognitive function; may be associated with a
neurocognitive disorder or seen independently
Intellectual disability - ✔✔Limitations of cognitive functioning (conceptual skills, social skills, and ADLs)
and below-average intelligence
Learning disability - ✔✔Challenges in taking data signals in and processing the information received;
may occur in people with average or above-average intelligence
Avoidance of substance abuse is an example of prevention of cognitive disorders - ✔✔Primary
Alzheimer's disease - ✔✔Most common type of dementia
- Dementia characterized by loss of short-term memory and denial of any memory loss
Vascular dementia - ✔✔Dementia caused by brain injury resulting from ischemic or hemorrhagic
damage
- Form of dementia caused by cerebrovascular disease
-Second most common type of dementia
Frontotemporal dementia - ✔✔Atrophy of frontal and anterior temporal lobes
Age - ✔✔Strongest risk factor for vascular dementia
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