PSY100H1 Lecture : PSY100 Lecture #6
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Older adults have difficulty recognizing negative emotions in faces: happiness : older recognized better / surprised : constant / disgust : constant, sad : young recognized better. Frontal lobe and medial temporal lobe associated with emotional processing. Crystallized intelligence: general knowledge acquired by experience (increases with age) Neuropsychological: emotion recognition decreases with aging = brain deterioration. Sociocognitive : emotion recognition increases with aging = experience. Fluid intelligence: out capacity to use logical reasoning in novel situations (decreases with age: at the most extreme ages, a few people make many errors. The effects of cognitive flexibility: sad faces were mistaken for neutral and errors on stories were in dealing with facts. We have an aging population, this it is important to characterize brain functioning. Important to know what is healthy, so that we can better understand disease. Top down processes, their efficiency gains and accuracy costs. Through the use of heuristics cognitive shortcuts: stereotypes and social scripts are examples of heuristics.
