PSYC33H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4.2: Anger Management, Long-Term Memory, Spaced
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Spaced retrieval: a model for dissemination of a cognitive intervention for persons with. Main point: chapter focuses on a cognitive intervention for persons with dementia, initially researched and developed by psychologists called: spaced retrieval (sr). Research in neuroscience and cognitive aging must inform and influence treatment of persons with dementia. Better understanding of the trajectories of different cognitive abilities over the course of dementia is critical to the continuing evolution of better care and enhanced quality of life. A technique in which clients practice the successful retrieval of information over successively longer time intervals. A long term care resident complains that daughter never comes to visit, when she actually comes 2-3 times per week. Tell client that you can find out about when daughter is coming, from guest book. The therapist would prompt at expanding intervals, such as after 30 seconds, 60 seconds, then two minutes, 4 minutes, 8 minutes and 16 minutes.
