Types of Memory
Intelligence
Alzheimers
Parkinsons
Research Studies
100
This type of memory involves vocabulary and knowledge.
What is Semantic Memory?
100
This type of intelligence involves perception, recall, drawing inferences, and processing speed.
What is fluid intelligence?
100
AD is affected by these two things in the brain.
What are neurofibrillary tangles and plaque buildup between nerves?
100
This is a symptom of PD. (name at least one)
What is a. tremor (hands, arms, legs, jaw and face), bradykinesia (slowness of movement), rigidity(stiffness of the limbs and trunk), postural instability (impaired balance and coordination)?
100
Jones et. al. conducted a study using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to help with this in older adults?
What is working memory?
200
This type of memory declines with age and involves memory of specific events.
What is Episodic memory?
200
This is a commonly used measurement of intelligence.
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAISIII)?
200
This is one type of symptom in AD patients.
What is Decline in coherent speech, spoken or written, Decline in ability to recognize or identify objects, Decline in performing motor activities, sensory function, and comprehension of task, Ability to make judgments, carry out complex tasks?
200
Freezing is this kind of PD symptom.
What is secondary motor?
200
Crumley et al. said that this memory involves remembering to perform a planned action or intention at some point in time, such as daily life.
What is Prospective memory?
300
This is an apparent recollection of an event that did not actually occur and may occur due to the implanting of fake memories under hypnosis.
What is false memory?
300
This is Ordinary Creativity.
What is the type of Creativity that peaks at 30 years then declines and can be affected by psychological and social changes?
300
These are related to the early onset of AD.
What are rare genetic variations involving chromosome 21 (Gene for amyloid precursor protein), Chromosome 14 on the gene for presenilin 1 protein, and chromosome 1 on the gene for presenilin 2?
300
This is the part of the brain affected by PD patients.
What is the substantia nigra?
300
This is was Spearman proposed intelligence as.
What is a single ability or "g"?
400
These are the three types of memory that use recollection, are age sensitive, and involved in autobiographical memory.
What are Flashbulb memories, Reminiscence bump, and False memories?
400
This thought is the process of understanding the relative and nonabsolute nature of knowledge.
What is Postformal Thought?
400
This is a type of drug for AD and is involved in learning and memory. (2 possible answers)
What is Cholinesterase inhibitors, which prevent the breakdown of acetylcholine and needed for learning and memory OR Memantine, which regulates activity of glutamate, another messenger involved in learning and memory?
400
This is a leader among genetic prospectors looking for clues to PD.
Who is Paul J. Lockhart, Ph.D.?
400
This researcher found that the greatest quality of productivity and creative contributions is between the ages of 30 and 50.
Who is Dennis's study in 1968 that suggested 80% of important creativity is completed by age 50.
500
These are the facts about meta-memory.
What is self appraisal of memory (1), some elderly exaggerate their memory impairment while others are very accurate (2), elderly who suffered depression view their memory as more impaired (3), sensory deficits and overall health are related to memory complaints (4)?
500
This is a contextual approach to problem solving.
What is solving problems by continuously creating new principles based on changing circumstance, instead of a set principle applied to all contexts?
500
This is the genetic factor involved in the later onset of AD.
What is Apolipoprotein E-e4 (ApoE-e4) and one of three common forms of the ApoE gene that has protein able to carry cholesterol in the bloodstream?
500
This is the amount of genetic links that Lockhart et al. found in regards to neurodegenerative and other disorders. (BONUS:name one of the five)
What is 5 in which one of them is known as "gene X" (underlies some cases of PD)?
500
This is what Dr. Perry's longitudinal study focused on and what he suggested.
What is the idea of reflective thinking, which is an important aspect of postformal thought and the suggestion of moving from dualistic thinking to more reflective and relativistic thinking through early young adulthood?
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