Impaired executive functioning

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AS-level Psychology (Autism) Quiz on Impaired executive functioning, created by s_phie5 on 20/02/2014.
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Question 1

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Who proposed the impaired executive functioning theory?
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  • frith
  • perner
  • Robinson

Question 2

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Executive functioning are higher level process e.g. multitasking, changing a plan, over-riding impulses
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 3

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Where does higher level processing take place?
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  • frontal lobe
  • cerebellum
  • brain stem

Question 4

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What behaviour could impaired.e.f explain?
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  • impaired social
  • impaired communication
  • repetitive and stereotypical behaviour

Question 5

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what does verbal fluency measure?
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  • speed and flexibility of thought
  • abstract thinking, planning ability
  • to inhibit reaching straight for a visible goal

Question 6

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Which test show executive functioning because autistics find it hard to multitask thinking of the rule and over riding impulses- so perform badly
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  • detour reaching-finding a different route for the marble
  • verbal fluency- naming different examples of the categories in a time period
  • wisconsin card sort- sort the cards in to shape, colour, number. depending on what administrator says
  • Tower of Hanoi- 3 discs of varying diameter are placed on 3 pegs- largest to smallest- move the tower of discs to another peg in smallest number of moves one disc at a time

Question 7

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What test shows impaired.e.f because autistics are unable to change a rule they've previously made
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  • wisconsin card sort
  • detour reaching
  • tower of hanoi

Question 8

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what is imaired.e.f complimentry to completing an explaination to the triad of impairments
Answer
  • cognitive
  • biological
  • psychodynamic
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