PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: The Turtles, Old Age, Prefrontal Cortex

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: ozzy mermut

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11: lifespan development, erikson"s theory, adulthood, what makes marriages last, midlife: the best years, old age, alzheimer"s disease, predictors of longevity, iclicker questions (4) Happy together the turtles: erickson"s stage theory p. 475, adulthood. Partners" implicit evaluation of each other matters tremendously for relationship satisfaction: adulthood. B) midlife (40-60 years): the best years. Only 7% report a midlife crisis related to aging. Ad is characterized by a progressive loss of memory and other mental functions (language, visual spatial abilities, personality). Eg difficulty remembering appointments, common words, peoples names, eventually can"t balance a checkbook. As the disease progresses the memory loss moves from recent events to old memories. The person may get lost on familiar routes. What causes the cortical atrophy are neurofibrillary tangles and neuritic plaques. Basically the neurofibrillary tangles are dying neurons contains twisted protein filaments that formally served as the cells internal skeleton.