Chapter 24: Late Adulthood Cognitive Development

Question 1

The part of the information-processing system that regulates the analysis and flow of information. Memory and retrieval strategies, selective attention, and rules or strategies for problem solving are all useful control processes.

Answer 1

CONTROL PROCESSES

Question 2

Memory that is easy to retrieve on demand (as in a specific test), usually with words. Most explicit memory involves consciously learned words, data and concepts.

Answer 2

EXPLICIT MEMORY

Question 3

Unconscious or automatic memory that is usually stores via habits emotional responses, routine procedures and various sensations.

Answer 3

IMPLICIT MEMORY

Question 4

An overall slowdown of cognitive abilities in the weeks and months before death.

Answer 4

TERMINAL DECLINE

Question 5

Irreversible loss of intellectual functioning cause by organic brain damage or disease. Dementia becomes more common with age, but it is abnormal and pathological even in the very old.

Answer 5

DEMENTIA

Question 6

The most common cause of dementia, characterized by gradual deterioration of memory and personality and marked by the formation of plaques of beta-amyloid protein and tangles in the brain

Answer 6

ALZHEIMERS DISEASE

Question 7

Forms of _____ that begin with impairments in motor ability which is governed by sub-cortex, and produce cognitive impairment in later stages. Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease and multiple sclerosis are subcortical dementias.

Answer 7

SUBCORTICAL DEMENTIAS

Question 8

A chronic, progressive disease that is characterized by muscle tremor and rigidity, and sometimes dementia, caused by a reduction of dopamine production in the brain

Answer 8

Parkinson’s Disease