Exam 2: Neuroscience As a Basis for Adult Development and Aging

What does social cognitive neuroscience focus on?

Which of the following are older adults more motivated to maintain?

The higher-order executive functions are involved in the ability to make and carry out plans, switch between tasks, and maintain and .

Dopaminergic system is associated with high-level cognitive functioning like inhibiting thoughts, and planning.

Compensation is the brain's response to .

Evidence has shown that the in frontal activity in older adults may be a response to the efficiency of neural processing related to the perceptual areas of the brain.

Overall, age-related change seems to have more profound effect on changes in brain than .

changes allow older adults to adapt to the inevitable decline of specific areas of the brain.

Researchers now acknowledge that cognitive, social, and emotional change in older adulthood is influenced at multiple levels including both changes in brain volume and and functional changes of brain areas.

is present across the adult life span; there are age-related reductions in this and the potential for improvement.

Emotional processing areas of the brain are whereas higher-order executive cognitive process seems to .

involves the interaction between the brain and the and is mostly used to describe the effects of experience on the structure and function of the neural system.