Exam 18: Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood

Adeline,aged 90,still drives her car to the senior center every Friday.Last week she tells her friends that someone they know from her church died.When they ask her for the person's name she says,"I can't remember her name.She sits near the altar and always has a hat on." Clearly Adeline has better _____ memory than _____ memory.

A gene called _____ is linked to increasing presence of plaques and tangles in the brain.

Studies conducted in 2006 revealed that approximately _____ retired Americans return to work after they have retired.

Which of the following is true of the influence of education on the cognitive functioning of older adults?

A recent study of older adults found that the greater the variability in their _____ attention,the more likely they were to experience falls.

Senior Odyssey is a 20-week program:

On average,today's workers in the United States will spend _____ to _____ of their lives in retirement.

Jonas is being tested for decline in cognitive functioning.The test involves assessing his ability to action planning,allocating attention to goals,detecting errors,monitoring progress on tasks,and dealing with novel or difficult circumstances.The researchers are testing Jonas' _____ attention.

_____ is triggered by degeneration of dopamine-producing neurons in the brain.

Nearly _____ of individuals who commit suicide in the United States are 65 years of age or older.

_____,which is closely linked to short-term memory,is like a place for doing mental jobs and allows children and adults to manipulate and assemble information when making decisions,solving problems,and comprehending written and spoken language.

The term Baltes uses to describe the "hardware" of the mind,meaning the neurophysiological architecture of the brain that was developed through evolution,is:

Venette recounts a funny story that she had recently heard to her friend Clarice.Clarice tells her that she has heard the story before,and,in fact,she had been the one to originally tell the story to Venette.Venette is having a failure of her _____ memory.

Alzheimer disease is a form of:

What is cognitive pragmatics? Explain in brief the distinction between cognitive mechanics and cognitive pragmatics.

Cognitive _____ declines in old age,whereas cognitive _____ appears to remain constant or increase.

A person's knowledge about the world is called _____ memory.

Estimates indicate that as many as _____ percent of individuals 65 years of age and older have mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

_____ are the culture-based "software programs" of the mind.

Lower frequency of depressive symptoms in older adults compared with middle-aged adults was linked to all of the following EXCEPT: