[PSY3128] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (25 pages long)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3128
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

But remember general concepts (ie. dementia vs. what is normal aging) Long answer will be from class discussion. This comes from changes in attention: they are bad with technology, their intelligence is deteriorating, they are fragile. We need to look at people based on themselves rather than an entire cohort. Age based double standard: if you look at two people with a memory lapse. One is 27 and one is 87, you may attribute an older persons failing as more serious than the behaviour in a younger adult. Older people are just as susceptible to biases as younger people are. Stereotype threat: a fear of being judged in accordance to the group you belong to. A fear of being judged because you belong to a certain cohort. Not as much research because stereotype threat often effect the individuals life more.