A Student with a Severe Case of Traumatic Brain Injury

question 12

Multiple Choice

A student with a severe case of traumatic brain injury will typically

• A)have the most dramatic improvement in skills during the first two years following the trauma.
• B)remain in a coma for the first year following the trauma.
• C)continue to improve for 10 years following the trauma.
• D)have the most dramatic improvement in skills during the first year following the trauma.

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Definitions:

Context Reinstatement

A cognitive process that involves reconstructing the circumstances or environment present during learning or an event to aid memory recall.

Transfer-appropriate Processing

A principle suggesting that memory retrieval is more effective when the cognitive processes at retrieval match those at encoding.

Conceptual Hierarchies

Conceptual hierarchies are organizational systems that arrange concepts, ideas, or items from the most general level to the most specific.

Connectionist Model

A cognitive model based on the concept that mental phenomena can be described by interconnected networks of simple and uniform units.