Avaliação psicológica e sua importância para o encaminhamento à estimulação cognitiva

Abstract

Psychological evaluation emerged from the need to elucidate determinant attitudes of individuals. Therefore, it was considered the structuring of vast models of investigation involving characteristics and how each individual absorbs and sizes the situations that involve him, reflecting on the psychological processes. We approach the emergence of Cognitive Psychology aimed at the investigation of cognitive processing, cognitive representation, information processing and certain behavioral strategies. Among the psychological processes, some alterations may or may not be observed in the evaluation of the phenomena, thus, cognitive stimulation appears as a method for the rehabilitation of the individual aiming at his / her cognitive and psychosocial adaptation. In this present study we seek to deal with psychological evaluation as a way of evaluating cognitive aspects (memory, attention, perception, reasoning, among others) and how this can be fundamental for the referral to cognitive stimulation. It was observed that there is a prior need of which fragilities and potentialities of each individual, seeking a design, seeking to exert the correct application and directed to the objective of each one.