Psych 329 Exam 2 Questions With Complete Verified Solutions.
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Psych 329
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Overview Feb. 11 - Answer 1. Cognition and Aging
-the phenomenon: the phenomenon is that older adults perform worse than younger adults on many cognitive tasks.
2. Information Processing Framework
3. Cognitive Hypotheses of Aging
4. Cognition in Everday Life
5. Myth Busting: Facts on Aging...
Psych 329 Exam 2 Questions With
Complete Verified Solutions.
Overview Feb. 11 - Answer 1. Cognition and Aging
-the phenomenon: the phenomenon is that older adults perform worse than younger adults on many
cognitive tasks.
2. Information Processing Framework
3. Cognitive Hypotheses of Aging
4. Cognition in Everday Life
5. Myth Busting: Facts on Aging Quiz
1. Cognition + processes - Answer thinking and mental processes
Processes include:
-attention
-Memory (remembering)
-Language processing
-Decision making
-Problem solving
-Intelligence
Cognition and Social Cognition - Answer Cognition: information processing
Social Cognition: attitudes, attributions, group dynamics. - what you think about different groups
Cognition and Aging - Answer -Major focus in the psychology of aging.
1. Applied reasons: eg. older driver, how do we know a person has dementia? Are we prepared for this
aging population?
2. Theoretical reason: understand what's going on with cognition, you have to look at it over the lifespan.
,The Phenomenon: What we know about cognitive domains memory and language in young people vs.
old people. - Answer -older people are doing worse on cognitive things.
-There are not age difference on all tasks though, but Cognitively, usually this is the case.
DIFFERENCES IN
-lists of words, and digits
-sentences
-texts (read/listen)
-source/ reality monitoring
-cued recall
-free recall
Example using memory differences: The Phenomenon - Answer -people were given a list of 12 words
and asked to repeat them in any order. From ages 19-84.
-The best performers are the younger ones, and there's more adults in the worst performers.
-BUT THERE'S A LOT OF VARIABILITY
-the worst performer was in their 20's and the best in their 50's.
Why do these age differences, favoring the young, exist?
What is the processing basis of age differences in memory and language processing? - Answer
2. Information Processing Framework : Information Processing Model - Answer -The information -
processing approach is based on 3 assumptions
1. people are active participants in the process
2. both quantitative and qualitative aspects of performance can be examined.
-quantitative: how much info do people recall?
-qualitative: what kinds of info do people recall?
3. Information is processed through a series of hypothetical stages or stores
, Information Processing Framework - Answer 1. sensory store: information comes in through our
senses. eg. hearing the prof.
THIS LEADS TO
2. Working Memory: What we pay attention to gets into working memory. Then get;s encoded into long
term memory.
THIS LEADS TO
3. Long-term memory:
a) episodic memory
b) semantic memory: your internal psychopedia. What does a car mean?
c) procedural memory: like how to drive a car, how to park a car.
Sensory Model - Answer where new, incoming information is first registered.
-memory details are dependent on how much attention is given to the stimuli
-If attention is given, then the info is passed to the next stage of memory
~What we pay attention to moves into working memory.
Working Memory - Answer <Limited capacity
-about seven chunks
-storage and processing functions
-coordinating function
< Plays an active, critical, and central role in encoding, storage, and retrieval.
-Our working memory has limited capacity. We can hold about 7+-2 things at once
-storage is holding the memory
-Older adults do worse than younger adults on most working memory tasks
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