Illustrate about the Principle of Context

A third principle guiding the neuropsychological assessment of children is that environment contexts help to constraint and determine behaviour. Thus, the ability of neuropsychological assessment to determine whether brain impairment contributes to failures of adaptation or of adaption rests on a careful examination of the influences of environmental or contextual variables that also influence behaviour. The reasons for examining these influences are to rule out alternative explanations for a child's adaptive difficulties and to assess the nature of the child's environment and as the situational demands being placed on the child. In this regard, neuropsychological assessment is designed not so much to measure a child's specific cognitive skills, but to determine how a child applies thesse skills in the environment.