PSY313H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Verbal Fluency Test, Neuropsychological Assessment, South Dakota Highway 10
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Processing speed = assesses frontal lobe functioning = executive functioning: verbal fluency, phonemic (words starting with a specific letter) vs. Oa) elder speak (infantilizing and patronizing speech) further declines (lack of stimulation from being treated as dependent child) Ya outperform oa (beginning at age 70) Oa are less effective in their analytic strategies. Age differences minimized when problems are interpersonal. Intelligence = an individual"s mental ability: forms part of sense of self, does not decline with age until very late in life, there are many theories of intelligence . Language development, general information, vocabulary, foreign language knowledge. Memory for sound patterns, musical discrimination, sound localization. Long-term storage & retrieval (glr) free recall, fluency, associative memory. But which comes first: twin studies show that overall intellectual ability appears to be a function of genetics, but the rate of change over time is a function of environmental influences (individual variation)
