PSY 323 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Metamemory, Midlife Crisis, Fall Prevention
22 Jun 2016
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Simple reaction time: 65 year old takes longer time to push a button when she sees a flash on a computer than a 33 year old. Erikson"s stages during childhood: intimacy-isolation, gernerativity-stagnation, ego integrity-despair. The distinction between normal and abnormal memory loss is: often hard to establish optimal exercised ability: in denney"s model, refers to the ability a normal healthy adult would exhibit with practice or training. Age iat acts as a measure of: implicit stereotyping; measured by analyzing differences in how quickly a person pairs young or old faces with positive or negative words. Reliance on religion in times of stress is esp important for: african americans. Older adults who cohabitate but do not marry most often do so bc: they may lose their financial benefits. Emotion and thought processes research concluded that high school students: tend to think at lower developmental levels when confronted with problems that have emotional content.
