Psych Vivas · Foundations — cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology for psychiatry — structured clinical viva
Cognitive psychology for psychiatry — structured clinical viva
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You are the psychiatry registrar. Teach cognitive psychology for fellowship using: (1) a depressed patient who cannot hold multi-step advice and speaks only in overgeneral failures; (2) a panic patient with safety behaviours; (3) a schizophrenia patient with remitted positive symptoms but job loss and hostile face misreads. Cover: Baddeley WM, Miller vs Cowan, Miyake EF, Posner attention, heuristics, Beck, Clark, ACT, MATRICS/social cognition, assessment, and exam traps.
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Cognitive psychology studies attention, memory, executive control, judgment, and social cognition. Working memory is multi-component (central executive + phonological loop + visuospatial sketchpad + episodic buffer), not a single short-term store.[2] Executive functions show unity and diversity: updating, shifting, inhibition.[5] Attention networks: alerting, orienting, executive.[4]
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