Exam 7: Language, Problem-Solving, and Intelligence

When rating their own and the other gender's intellectual abilities, men rated themselves as higher in:

By interpreting the paralinguistic elements of speech, such as _________________, older adults can compensate for not hearing every word spoken to them in a conversation.

Discuss three implications of age differences in problem solving and thinking for those who teach adult learners.

In a longitudinal study of cognitive functioning among bilingual and monolingual patients with MCI and AD at the Sam and Ida Ross Memory Clinic in Toronto, Bialystak-Stak and colleagues found: :

In neuropsychological tests called ___________________, the examiner changes the nature of the judgments that the older adult must produce.

In solving everyday problems, older adults typically show which pattern of performance compared to younger adults?

How might age changes in intelligence relate to identity processes? What advice or counseling would you provide to older adults who are concerned about loss of their intellectual skills?

The abilities to plan, use working memory, allocate mental resources to incoming tasks, and inhibit information are included in the cognitive skill known in psychology as:

List and define the five scales on the PMA used in the Seattle Longitudinal Study.

How do older adults compensate in their use of language for changes in cognitive ability?

How might training studies on intelligence incorporate the concept of wisdom?

Women show greater decreases across adulthood than men except on the _____________ scale of the WAIS-IV.

Define and describe the communication predicament model. How does it relate to the concept of elderspeak?

An analysis of cohort effects in the SLS by Gerstorf and colleagues (2011) showed that later-born cohorts had higher scores than earlier-born cohorts on almost all measures, suggesting the effect of:

In the CHC model of intelligence, the third level is considered to be:

The Digit Span scale on the WAIS-IV measures which intellectual ability?

Unlike the WAIS-IV, the PMAT also assesses an individual's:

In research on the attraction effect in problem solving, the findings suggest that older adult consumers are less likely to be influenced by:

Which do you think is more important for competent functioning in adulthood: the pragmatics or the mechanics of intelligence? Justify your answer.

While checking in on an older adult patient whose husband is visiting her in the hospital, a nurse's aide finds them holding hands and kissing. The aide immediately laughs and says "That's so cute!" What is the aide's behavior referred to in the psychology of aging?