2nd test

Question 1

What is the ability to think, learn, and remember. Basis on how we reason, judge, concentrate, plan, and organize?

Answer 1

Cognition

Question 2

What are the three primary cognitive skills?

Answer 2

Problem solving, verbal skills, and social competence

Question 3

What are the second order mental abilities?

Answer 3

Fluid intelligence and Crystallized intelligence

Question 4

What are the types of memory that improve it stay the same?

Answer 4

Semantic memory and Procedural memory

Question 5

What are the types of Memory that decline somewhat?

Answer 5

Information processing and learning something new, doing more than one task at a time and shifting focus between tasks

Question 6

People tend to improve on primary abilities until what ages?

Answer 6

Late 30’s or early 40’s

Question 7

Abilities tend to stabilize until?

Answer 7

Mid-50’s or early 60’s

Question 8

Older adults tend to show declines

Answer 8

Small until mid-70’s

Question 9

What may change more than capacity to learn as adults goes older?

Answer 9

Motivation to learn

Question 10

What brings order and meaning to the human existence?

Answer 10

Memory

Question 11

More likely to remember positive events

Answer 11

Positivity bias

Question 12

Memories of negative events become less intense

Answer 12

Fading bias

Question 13

Processes and structures involved in holding information in the mind and using that information to solve ab problem is called?

Answer 13

Working memory

Question 14

Is it true that there is a greater age-related decline in working memory than in passive short term memory

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Decline in speed of information processing

Answer 15

Learn new or novel information more slowly