Back to AI Flashcard MakerPsychology /Developmental Psychology - Old Age Part 3
Developmental Psychology - Old Age Part 3
This deck covers key concepts related to cognitive and neurological changes in old age, including types of memory, attention, and disorders.
– caused by strokes or other issues of blood flow in the brain; may be due to diabetes and high cholesterol; have strokes like episodes
• Vascular
Tap or swipe ↕ to flip
Swipe ←→Navigate
1/20
Key Terms
Term
Definition
– caused by strokes or other issues of blood flow in the brain; may be due to diabetes and high cholesterol; have strokes like episodes
• Vascular
have movement or balance (stiffness or trembling); daytime sleepiness, confusion, or staring; trouble sleeping at night and visual hallucinations
• Lewy Bodies
leads to personality and behavior changes and problems in language skills
• Frontotemporal
resulted from gene mutation which impacts movement, behavior, and cognition; personality also changes, loss of coordination, difficulty in swallowing and speaking
• Huntington’s
uncontrollable movements, tremor, stiffness, slow movement, prevalent in men than women; nerve cells in basal ganglia become impaired; L-Dopa as treatment
• Parkinson’s
measure the intelligence of older adults
o Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale • Older adults tend not to perform as well as younger adults in WAIS but the difference is primarily processing sp...
Related Flashcard Decks
Study Tips
- Press F to enter focus mode for distraction-free studying
- Review cards regularly to improve retention
- Try to recall the answer before flipping the card
- Share this deck with friends to study together
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
– caused by strokes or other issues of blood flow in the brain; may be due to diabetes and high cholesterol; have strokes like episodes | • Vascular |
have movement or balance (stiffness or trembling); daytime sleepiness, confusion, or staring; trouble sleeping at night and visual hallucinations | • Lewy Bodies |
leads to personality and behavior changes and problems in language skills | • Frontotemporal |
resulted from gene mutation which impacts movement, behavior, and cognition; personality also changes, loss of coordination, difficulty in swallowing and speaking | • Huntington’s |
uncontrollable movements, tremor, stiffness, slow movement, prevalent in men than women; nerve cells in basal ganglia become impaired; L-Dopa as treatment | • Parkinson’s |
measure the intelligence of older adults | o Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale • Older adults tend not to perform as well as younger adults in WAIS but the difference is primarily processing speed and nonverbal performance |
– scores drop with age in performance scale and slightly on other scales | • Classic Aging Pattern |
brief storage of sensory information | o Sensory Memory |
short-term storage of information being actively process | o Working Memory |
– linked to specific events; most likely to deteriorate with age | o Episodic Memory |
consists of meanings, facts, and concepts accumulated over lifetime learning; little decline | o Semantic Memory |
motor skills and habits that once learned; relatively unaffected by age | o Procedural Memory |
exceptional breadth and depth of knowledge about the conditions of life and human affects and reflective judgement about the application of knowledge | o Wisdom • May involve the lead to transcendence, detachment from preoccupation with the self • The ability to navigate the messiness of life • Older adults tend to make the most of their abilities, often exploiting gains in one area to offset declines in another |
the hardware of the mind and reflect the neurophysiological architecture of the brain that was developed thru evolution | o Cognitive Mechanics • Speed and accuracy, visual and motor memory, discrimination, comparison, and categorization • Decline begins as soon as early midlife |
culture-based software program of the mind | o Cognitive Pragmatics • Reading and writing, language, educational qualifications, professional skills, life skills • Decline in old age |
– focusing on specific aspect of experience that is relevant and ignoring irrelevant info | o Selective Attention |
concentrating on more than one activity at the same time | o Divided Attention |
focused and extended engagement with an object, task, event, or some other aspect of the environment | o Sustained Attention |
– involves planning actions, allocating attention to goals, detecting and compensating for errors, monitoring progress on tasks, etc | o Executive Attention |
ability to remember where one learned something | o Source Memory |