People with Dementia Often Show Difficulty with Abstract Thinking

question 109

Multiple Choice

People with dementia often show difficulty with abstract thinking. Which of the following questions to a person with dementia would help to demonstrate this difficulty?

• A) "What time is it?"
• B) "What was the name of your first grade teacher?"
• C) "Why are a basketball and a football helmet alike?"
• D) "What would you like to have for supper tonight?"

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Definitions:

Determinism

The philosophical concept that all events, including moral choices, are determined completely by previously existing causes.

Psychodynamic Theory

A psychological perspective that analyzes how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts.

Superego

The superego is part of Freud's psychoanalytic theory, representing the ethical component of personality and providing moral standards for behavior.

Id

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that contains our basic, instinctual drives and operates according to the pleasure principle.