OTP 2 TEST WITH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
2025
cognition - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ -integration of brain
functions, thoughts and goal-directed actions
-aquiring information, processing it and applying it to
everyday life
-consists of interrelated processes, including the ability to
perceive , organize, assimilate and manipulate
information to enable the person to process information
learn and generalize
cognitive dysfunction - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ -functioning
below expected normative levels or loss of ability to
any area of cognitive functioning
-may occur across the lifespan and may be associated
with a wide range of clinical conditions
components of cognition - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ -
primary cognitive operations
-executive functioning
-self-awareness
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primary cognitive operations - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
precursors to higher order thinking (executive functioning
and self-awareness)
-orientation
-attention
-memory
orientation - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ (primary cognitive
operations)
x3
-person: most basic, if they don't have this then it's the
most severe type of cognitive deficit
-place
-time
attention - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ (primary cognitive
operations)
ability to focus
-sustained
-selective
-divided
-alternating
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sustained attention - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ focus on
taking notes, the topic of attention
selective attention - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ focusing on
what the professor is saying instead of on the voices in
the hall or what's going on outside of the window
divided attention - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ (multi-tasking)
-neither have full attention, only partially paying
attention
-this is why it's a problem to text and drive
alternating attention - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ attention
goes back and forth
ex)start to cook but get a phone call and come back to
cooking
memory - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ store and retain new
information that we can bring back up at a later time
process includes
-attention
-encoding
-storage
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-retrieval
attention (memory) - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ incoming
infomation
encoding - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ input of information
storage - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ holding the info
retrieval - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ finding and getting the
information
memory - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ -short term
-long term
-procedural
-non procedural
short term memory - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ -includes
working memory
-recalling something that was relatively recent