PSY 308 Study Guide - Final Guide: Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Pragmatics, Procedural Knowledge

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 308
• Professor: Alba Agostino

Document Summary

Class outline: language, problem solving, learning, training studies, wisdom. Average older adult shows no significant losses in everyday language ability. Changes in cognitive processes and physical changes may affect an older adult"s ability to use language most effectively. Vision, hearing, working memory, semantic memory, tip of the tongue. Memory, attention (ex. inhibition, sustained attention), decision making (ex. filtering relevant from irrlevent information) Greater experience with language allows older adults to compensate for cognitive changes affecting language abilities. Consistency of being able to process something at the same side as where they perform it. Bilingualism and aging: bilingualism is associated with delays in the onset of symptoms of dementia such as, alzheimer"s (bialystok et al. , 2007) Cbc news article: bilingualism may delay dementia onset http://www. cbc. ca/news/health/bilingualism-may-delay-dementia-onset- The thing with being bilingual is that you recognize that language is very arbitrary you are training without even knowing those basic cognitive skills (like inhibition)