Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lumosity
15 Apr 2014
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Deliberate vs. automatic memory: deliberate, recall more difficult, context helps retrieval, but slower processing, smaller working memory makes context harder to encode, automatic, recognition is easier than recall, more environmental support, implicit memory better than deliberate (without conscious, difficulty in creating or retrieving links between pieces of, using memory cues, enhancing meaningfulness of information awareness, associative memory deficit information helps, remote, very long term recall, autobiographical memory, prospective (future oriented, remembering to engage in planned actions, event based easier than time based. Real problems include family relations, iadls: iadl instrumental activities of daily living, things old people do that needs knowledge (eg. cooking, adl activity of daily living (eg. bathing, going to bed) Aging and the nervous system: loss of brain weight accelerates after age 60, neurons lost in frontal lobes, corpus callosum, cerebellum (balance), glial cells, autonomic nervous system less efficient, brain can compensate, use more parts of brain*
