GRT 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stroop Effect, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Adaptive Learning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Gerontology
• Course: GRT 2100
• Professor: Sonia Gulati

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2:t, fastest growing groups purchasing and learning to use new technologies, no room for growth in younger people because most use it already, older people might require more adaptive learning strategies while learning. 4: some aspects in memory might decline modestly as you age, mostly short term memory, older people will retain more meaningful events, have a decent remote memory of old memories, retrieval of information might be slower. 5: t, may take longer to learn something new, once they understand (cid:449)hat"s happening they can do the task as well as younger people but the learning portion might just take longer. Changes in the brain can also be associated with stress, physical disease, side effects of medication, clinical diagnosis of depression. Memory loss: lack of attention, fatigue, hearing loss, can impact memory loss at any age, To improve memory: sleep, do puzzles, write things down, visualization, Cognitive skills in boggle: memory for words, attention, concentration,