KINESIOL 3H03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Stroop Effect, Grey Matter, Long-Term Memory
12 Apr 2016
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Process where an individual is able to perceive, recognize, or understand thoughts and ideas. Abiliies to concentrate or divide one"s atenion among several things to learn and remember, plan of acion and execute plan, regulate aciviies, think logically, solve problems. Mental tasks: tests of percepion, verbal tests, academic tests, tests of short term and long term memory, reacion ime, reasoning, intelligence. With advancing age the brain changes in structure and funcion. Volume of gray and white mater decreases, and brain ventricles increase. Cross secional study comparing long-term exercisers to sedentary people to determine if itness across lifespan can preserve cogniive funcion. Prospecive studies where they examined at one point in ime and re-examined at some later ime to determine extent of the characterisics. People who had no cogniive impairment and 6 years later those who engaged in pa were less likely to develop demenia later in life. Aerobic itness may bufer against the development of cogniive impairment.
