One morning a clinical neuropsychologist sees a patient with memory difficulties. The clinical neuropsychologist only has access to the following three tasks: i. A verbal list learning task (VVLT), containing learning, independent recall and recognition components ii. A verbal paired associate (VPA) learning task, including BOTH arbitrarily and semantically-related pairs, with learning and independent recall components for each. iii. A task that assesses general knowledge.

The clinical neuropsychologist has time to administer only ONE of these tasks.

Please answer EACH of the following four questions (a-d)

a. Which of the three tasks would best discriminate between Alzheimer's disease and depression?

b. Justify your response by outlining the expected profile of performance (i.e., 'impaired' or 'normal') on EACH component of EACH of the three tasks for a patient with Alzheimer's disease AND a patient with depression. You may structure your response with sub-headings, dot-points and/or a table.

c. Which task would best discriminate between semantic dementia and Stage 2 of a Fugue State?

d. Justify your response by outlining the expected profile of performance as 'impaired' or 'normal' on EACH component of EACH of the three tasks for a patient with semantic dementia AND a patient with Stage 2 of a Fugue state. You may structure your response with sub-headings, dot-points and/or a table.