Deck 24: Seciton 2: Late Adulthood: Cognitive Development

Question 1

A main symptom of Lewy body dementia is the loss of _____.

Answer 1

inhibition

Question 2

With age, the parts of the brain that shrink the most are the _____ and the hippocampus.

Answer 2

prefrontal cortex

Question 3

The name for irreversible, pathological loss of brain functioning caused by organic brain damage or disease is _____.

Answer 3

dementia

Question 4

_____ is the theorist who suggested that older people are more likely than younger people to reach self-actualization.

Question 5

Erikson's eighth stage is called _____ versus despair.

Question 6

_____ is the idea that cognition should be measured in terms of everyday tasks and circumstances.

Question 7

Both past _____ and current intellectual challenge correlate with better neurological functioning in late adulthood.

Question 8

In order for information to register in memory, it must cross the _____.

Question 9

A chronic, progressive disease characterized by rigidity and tremors is _____.

Question 10

Memory and retrieval strategies, selective attention, and rules or strategies for problem solving are _____ processes.

Question 11

A brain affected by Alzheimer disease has _____ outside the brain cells and tangles of protein filaments.

Question 12

The Seattle Longitudinal Study found that the measured output of all the five primary mental abilities began to _____ at about age 60.

Question 13

_____ is the situation in which elderly people are prescribed several medications.

Question 14

The processing component through which current, conscious mental activity occurs is _____ memory.

Question 15

The most common form of frontal lobe dementia is _____.

Question 16

When older people suspect that their memory is declining, _____ may cause further impairment.

Question 17

Vascular dementia (VaD) is caused by a series of _____.