GRT 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Long-Term Memory, Episodic Memory, Frontal Lobe
6 Jul 2016
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T older people is the fastest growing age group to learn new technologies. F dementia is progressive decline in cognitive functioning, usually because of damage or disease of the brain beyond what might be consider normal. But age is the most significant factor to develop. T short term memory easy to lost, retrieved of information may slow down. Associate with stress, disease, side effect of medication, depression. Memory loss: lack of attention, hearing loss, can impact memory loss at any age: sleep well, exercise, puzzle tasks, writing things down, visualized things, connection between things can help maintain memory. Boggle attention, thinking, elemental flexibility p. 6 cognitive how a person understands and behaviour in the world. Crystallized intelligence experience, learning increases with age to about mid 70 relatively resistance to age relating effect (ex. disease) Cognition skills: low motivation can impact performance, substance abuse, levels of education. As we get older, think and act slowly and become forgetful.
