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PSY 275 Final Chp17
Question | Answer |
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These people are physically active, active in community, tough minded | centenarians |
Loss of brain weight accelerates after what age? | 60 |
This nervous system is less efficient | Autonomic nervous system |
Thought and behavior impairments that disrupt everyday life | dementia |
These diseases are types of dementia | Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Cerebrovascular dementia, reversible dementia |
Symtoms of Alzheimer's Disease? | Forgetting, disorientation, personality change, depression, motor problems, delusions, speech problems, infections |
High-fat diet and genetic predispositions are risk factors of | Alzheimers |
Choose personally valued activities, avoid others | select |
Devote diminishing resources to valued activities | optimize |
find creative ways to overcome limitations | compensate |
Recall more difficult. Context helps retrieval but slower processing, smaller working memory make context harder to encode | Deliberate |
Recognition easier than recall and implicit memory better than deliberating | automatic |
The memory declines in late adulthood by showing | difficulty in creating or retrieving links between pieces of information |
Very long-term recall and autobiographical memory | remote memory |
remembering to engage in planned actions, event-based easier than time-based, use reminders repetition | prospective memory |