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Alterations in Cognitives

An altered cognitive process refers to a change in the way a person perceives, processes, or responds to information. This can manifest as changes in attention, memory, language, perception, or problem-solving abilities. The document provides examples of alterations in various cognitive processes. Alterations in attention can include distraction, changes in span of attention. Alterations in perception include illusions, hallucinations, and changes in sensory awareness. Alterations in memory include different types of amnesia, as well as conditions like Alzheimer's disease. Alterations in thinking may include confused thoughts, delusions, or flight of ideas. The document also discusses alterations in intelligence, aptitudes, and learning.

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Alterations in Cognitives

An altered cognitive process refers to a change in the way a person perceives, processes, or responds to information. This can manifest as changes in attention, memory, language, perception, or problem-solving abilities. The document provides examples of alterations in various cognitive processes. Alterations in attention can include distraction, changes in span of attention. Alterations in perception include illusions, hallucinations, and changes in sensory awareness. Alterations in memory include different types of amnesia, as well as conditions like Alzheimer's disease. Alterations in thinking may include confused thoughts, delusions, or flight of ideas. The document also discusses alterations in intelligence, aptitudes, and learning.

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ALTERATIONS IN

COGNITIVE PROCESSES
BY
MR KALLESH B
LECTURER
GOVERNMENT CON
HASSAN
COGNITIVE ALTERATIONS

An altered cognitive process refers to a change


or disruption in the way that a person
perceives, processes, or responds to
information. This can manifest in a variety of
ways, such as changes in attention, memory,
language, perception, or problem-solving
abilities. e-existing mental function.
1. Attention:
Alterations expected in attention process include
distraction, division and variations in span of
attention. Most of all distraction should be avoided;
otherwise the work process will get affected.
Distraction of attention can be overcome by
keeping ourselves actively involved, develop
interest in the work we are doing, make distraction
a part of work. For example, listening to music
while working, talking to somebody while riding a
bicycle, etc.
2. Perception:
Alterations in perception include
Illusions.
Hallucinations
Changes in sensory awareness like anesthesia
(loss of sensitivity), hyperesthesia (excessive
sensitivity), hypoesthesia (diminished tactile
sensitivity), par aesthesia (partial sensation), etc.
ILLUSION an instance of a wrong
or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience.
A hallucination is a false perception of
objects or events involving your senses: sight,
sound, smell, touch and taste. Hallucinations
seem real, but they're not
You may have hallucinations if you: hear
sounds or voices that nobody else hears. see
things that are not there like objects, shapes,
people or lights. feel touch or movement in
your body that is not real like bugs are
crawling on your skin or your internal organs
are moving around.
3. Memory:
Alterations include different types of amnesia,
fugue, Korsakoff’s syndrome, Alzheimer
disease, par amnesia and confabulation, hyper
amnesia, forgetting, Deja vu (an illusion of
recognition), traumatic automatism
(remembering traumatic experiences
involuntarily).
4. Thinking:

Confused thoughts, lack of logical connections


between thought and speech, thought disorder,
delusions, hallucinations, thought block, flight of
ideas or derailment, rhyming, punning (confusion
between similar sounding words but have
different meanings) are the examples of
alterations in thinking..
CONFUSED THOUGHTS
5. Intelligence:

Alterations include mental retardation, giftedness,


autistic savant, Aspergers’ syndrome (a childhood
disorder), Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder
(ADHD), autism, etc.
6. Aptitudes:
Alterations in different aptitudes refer to
variations in degree of aptitudes among people.
Some people may have extraordinary level of
aptitude, but another person may have very low
level of the same and in some other person it may
be fully absent.
7.ALTERATIONS IN LEARNING
PHONETIC PROBLEMS

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