PSYCH 3AG3 Lecture 14: 3AG3-FEB 16
26 Feb 2017
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Relevance of lab tasks to older vs. younger adults real-life contexts: meaningfulness, familiarity. Subjects presented articles that were positive, negative, or neutral about older adults and memory. Younger adults are unaffected by this information. Significant difference between performance of older and younger adults in neutral and negative conditions. Strange finding: people with pathology had managed to avoid neuronal losses. Larger brains had allowed them to make up for their alzheimers pathology. Resistance to damage of the brain: brain reserve. Our ability to cope with brain damage while still functioning adequately: cognitive reserve. The ability to compensate and optimize by using various cognitive strategies cognitive style is responsible for ability to tolerate brain damage. Cognitive training research: train ways to cope with brain damage/ tasks. 16/02/2017: training use of mnemonics improves performance, examples. External memory aids: ex. making lists, placing things where you will see them when you need them, burack and lachman.
