Intelligence Aging A
The two parts of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
Early stage – memory loss, disorientation to time & space, poor judgment, & personality changes
Middle stage – increased memory problems, increased difficulties with speech, restlessness, irritability, & loss of impulse control
Late stage – Incontinence, lose motor skills, decrease appetite, difficulty with speech/language, may not recognize family members or oneself, lose self-care abilities, decreased ability to fight off infections
Define Neural efficiency hypothesis.
Intelligent people process info more efficiently, showing weaker neural activations in smaller number of areas.
Define Stereotypes.
Special type of social knowledge structure or social beliefs
Dysphoria
Feeling down or blue
Delirium
Confused thinking & reduced awareness of one’s environment that develop rapidly
Define Fluid intelligence.
The abilities that make you a flexible & adaptive thinker, allow you to make inferences, & enable you to understand the relations among concepts
Define Negativity Bias.
Special type of social knowledge structure or social beliefs
FOUR D’s of Psychological Disorders
Deviance, Dysfunction, Distress, & Danger
Not a specific disease, but a family of disease characterized by cognitive & behavioral deficits involving some form of permanent damage to brain
Dementia
Define crystallized intelligence.
knowledge you have acquired through life experience & education in a particular culture
Define Terminal Decline.
gradual decline in cognitive function that occurs relatively near death
Define Implicit Stereotyping.
stereotyped beliefs that affect your judgments of individuals without your being aware of it
Three physical symptoms of Depression
Insomnia, changes in appetite, diffuse pain, trouble breathing, headaches, fatigue, & sensory loss
Most common form of progressive, degenerative, & fatal dementia
Alzheimer’s Disease
The type of intelligence that declines the most.
Fluid intelligence
The FOUR moderators of intellectual change
Cohort differences, health, personality, & social/lifestyle variables
Test designed to detect strengths of a person’s automatic association between mental representations of objects in memory
Implicit Association Test (IAT)
The TWO depression assessments.
Beck Depression Inventory & Geriatric Depression Inventory
happens when too much phosphate bonds with tau
Neurofibrillary tangles
The two areas of the brain that are responsible for intelligence
parietal and frontal lobe
The difference between Assimilation & Accommodation.
Dispositional - the cause resides within the actor
Situational -the cause resides outside the
actor
TWO types of attributional biases. Define each
Dispositional - the cause resides within the actor
Situational -the cause resides outside the
actor
Difference between behavior therapy & cognitive behavior therapy
Behavior therapy-focuses on attempts to alter current behavior without necessarily addressing underlying causes
Cognitive behavior therapy-aimed at altering the way people think
Describe each stage of Alzheimer’s Disease (early, middle, late)
Early stage – memory loss, disorientation to time & space, poor judgment, & personality changes
Middle stage – increased memory problems, increased difficulties with speech, restlessness, irritability, & loss of impulse control
Late stage – Incontinence, lose motor skills, decrease appetite, difficulty with speech/language, may not recognize family members or oneself, lose self-care abilities, decreased ability to fight off infections