life span ch 17 Flashcards
________ memories are automatic and recall the performance of tasks such as reciting the alphabet or multiplication tables, riding a bicycle, or using a doorknob
implicit
older adults tend to do about as well as younger adults in performing cognitive tasks that measure ______ memory
implicit
which disability is this? It is a loss of acuteness of hearing due to age-related degenerative changes in the ear.
presbycusis
Dowager’s hump is a condition that is associated with _____.
osteoporosis
physical changes are more likely to affect males or females?
- males
The buildup of fluid pressure inside the eyeball is the main feature of ______. leading to what? and what age does it rarely occur by?
- glaucoma , tunnel vision and blindness
- age 40
what is the difference between presbycusis and prebyopia
- presbycusis is loss of hearing high frequencies whereas presbyopia is loss of nearby eyesight, therefore only farsightedness
sleep apnea is _____
gasping for breath due to suspension of breathing
Diabetes tends to increase the risk of developing ______.
- glaucoma
what is medicare?
- federal program that funds health for disabeled and older americans
is arthritis more common in women or men?
- women
what is the difference between rheumatoid arthritis and arthritis
- rheumatoid athritis, attacks its own body, chronic inflammation of the membranes that line the joints wheras arthritis is joint inflammation
what is the difference between explicit memory and implicit memory
- explicit memory is remembering specifc types of imformation like autobiography, wheras implicit memory is remembering recall of performance tasks
The ability to recall the order in which events have occurred can be attributed to _______.
- temporal memory
