PSYCH 3AG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Word Game, Ellen Bialystok, Test Card
16 Sep 2014
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Assort blue rabbit and a red boat from blue boat and red rabbit. You can assort according to colour and shape. And cognitive flexibility is advance in bilingual adults: bilingual adults showed delayed onset alzheimer"s disease: bilingual adults may of whom are immigrants, so her argument is that there is no self-selection in who becomes bilingual or not. Many of them are immigrants so they were forced to become bilingual. Monolingual average onset of ad is about 72 yrs, whereas, for bilingual average onset of ad is 77 yrs. But bilingual adult shows enhanced cognitive ability in this task. Monolingual were much smaller in both young and older adults: general response time between monolingual and bilingual. Began to slow down on their general response pattern, but when it came to working related memory, bilingual participants showed less change. Both group start to see the change in 60 yrs of age, but impairment is much greater for monolingual than the bilingual.
