CONSCIOUSNESS-COMPONENTS
SUMMARY
1. Consciousness has 2 key components: awareness & wakefulness.
2. These form the foundation for basic processes that serve as building blocks for the development of higher intellectual abilities.
3. The higher cognitive functions, including the manipulation of well-learned material, abstract thinking, problem-solving, judgement, arithmetic computations, and so forth, represent the highest level of human intellectual functioning readily assessable to formal testing methods[1].
4. Basic processes consist of 5 cognitive domains: attention, memory, perception/praxis, language, executive function.
5. Disorders of consciousness can lead to: coma, unresponsive wakefulness syndrome/vegetative state, minimally conscious state.
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